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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Palustris on March 11, 2013, 12:39:13 PM
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Hopefully the only gas will be from the bacon butty brigade!
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... And the visiting lecturer!!!! ;D
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We will all be hoping for a perfect show day - and a super talk !
BLACKPOOL SHOW
16th March 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm
SHOW SECRETARY: Mr Lionel Clarkson,
6 Warwick Place, Normoss, Blackpool, FY3 7SS
Telephone 01253 394993 (Lionel.Clarkson@agsgroups.org)
(Please state if a member of AGS, SRGC or both)
VENUE: Collegiate High School, Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool FY3 7LS
DIRECTIONS: A586 towards Blackpool. After Poulton le Fylde turn right at next set of
lights into Blackpool Old Road.
ENTRIES: To Show Secretary by Tuesday before the Show.
(C Section Entries at any time – advance notice of a large entry would be
appreciated)
STAGING: Staging: 7.00pm to 8.00pm on Friday and 8.00am to 9.45am on Saturday
JUDGING: Begins at 10.00 am
RHS JOINT ROCK GARDEN PLANT COMMITTEE: will meet at 12.00 noon.
Plants for consideration must be registered by 11.00 am.
There will be a Talk by Cliff Booker at 2pm: 'The Cream of Alpines'
See full schedules for the shows here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9922.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9922.0)
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With Loughborough being off last week I have decided to open my nursery on Saturday morning for anybody wanting hardy orchids; terrestrial orchid composts or pumice 93 grades including 0 to 2 mm). I have sent a number of direction maps to the Show Secretary. The nursery address is Bells Bridge Lane, off Cockerham Road, Nateby,PR3 0DQ ( 11 miles from the show venue) and I will be open from 10.00 to 1.30. Jeff Hutchings, Laneside Hardy Orchids
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What were your favourites at the Joint Rock Blackpool show ?
I have picked my three
Dionysia bryoides and I know we have seen this many times before but the skill involved still blows me away.
Dionysia aretioes, likewise above and only a little easier but where would the show be without a giant Dionysia.
Cyclamen alpinum leucanthemum, the Farrer memorial medal winner, best plant in the show by Dave Riley of Kendal.
Now come on join in the post, I know there are plenty of pictures out there.
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That cyclamen takes some beating. Wonderful exhibit!
(edit to change thread name )
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Three great plants indeed, Kevin.
Good day had by all?
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Fabulous day Maggie, great show plants, usual plant stalls were I feel guilty coming home with so many plants bought, I have to sneak them in the house a few at a time like a naughty boy buying magazines! I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent. A brilliant, Yes Cliff Booker a brilliant talk "cream of alpines" and a great catch up with friends.
(in case you ask, no Suzanne doesn't come on this forum, not interested in plants at all)
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I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent.
Isn't that a familiar statement.
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A brilliant, Yes, Cliff Booker, a brilliant talk "Cream of Alpines" and a great catch up with friends.
Aw shucks, Kevin ... many thanks my friend. Even more appreciated after your excellent talk entitled; 'Flower hunting in Portugal' to the East Lancs AGS Group last week. Highly recommended.
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I feel guilty coming home with so many plants bought, I have to sneak them in the house a few at a time like a naughty boy buying magazines! I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent.
Have you not learnt the purpose of the scissors in the exhibitors tools.
It is to cut the price labels off the plants before you go home!
On a different note, thanks again, Cliff,for your entertaining talk. What with that and lunch,we only just found time to look at the plants!
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Must have been good, I took 335 photographs!
Nice to see Kevock Nursery there too.
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One or three pictures from Blackpool.
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/ (http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/)
Mistakes can be rectified when notified!
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One or three pictures from Blackpool.
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/ (http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/)
Mistakes can be rectified when notified!
My word, Eric, you have been very busy! What a huge selection of pictures.
Dionysia 'Tess' is lovely .... and Primula allionii 'Lepus' is trying VERY hard to be a dionysia, isn't it? Love them both!
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Well done Eric ... what a feat of endurance and note taking.
I'm afraid my own photographic exploits at Blackpool were meagre in comparison and more than usually curtailed by a lecture appointment in the afternoon and a great hunger for the delicious meat pie and scones on offer.
I didn't have time to take any notes and most of these images were obviously effected by precursory nerves at the thought of lecturing to such a distinguished audience!!!
Anyway, just for the hell of it, here are a few unlabelled (my apologies) offerings to give another brief view of some of the exhibits.
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Thanks for sharing, Cliff. Can't help feeling you have a distinct preference for the cushion plants - might that be because they put you in mind of buns and cakes....... ??? ::) ;) ;D
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"Note taking" moi? Never. I take photos of the labels. Big advantage of a digital camera with a lot of memory. I suppose I ought to take shots of the plant owners car too, but that would be going a bit far.
Did anyone else notice the very much reduced number of Narcissus exhibits? Our abiding memory of the show when it was in Lancaster was the huge display of Daffs.
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Thanks for sharing, Cliff. Can't help feeling you have a distinct preference for the cushion plants - might that be because they put you in mind of buns and cakes....... ??? ::) ;) ;D
You MAY be right about my photographic leanings, Maggi, but I will use lack of time as my excuse - I only got one third of the way around the hall before lecturing duties, chatting (and food) took precedence. The cakes had all gone by the time we reached the front of the queue, but the scones were tempting.
We never even found the time to buy any plants, but it was wonderful to bump into so many old friends and to make new ones as well - what a great pleasure to meet Rex Murfitt in the flesh (and it was a really cold day)!!!
Always a treat to see so many people of a Scottish persuasion at the show as well of course.
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Some wonderful plants there. Nice to look at something cheery.
Some of those cushion plants are unbelievable. Love the Townsendia Hookeri, mine has only one miserable flower.
Thanks folks for the pictures.
Angie :)
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Thanks Eric and Cliff for those lovely pictures. We need some colour to cheer us up. It's still snowing off and on here with the occasional very short blink of sunshine. No sign of any improvement this week either.
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Thanks for showing us all the pictures form the show just great to see flowers after spending most of the day shoveling snow, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Sandy Leven's reports on the show and the Forrest Medal plant are online :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Blackpoolshow2013.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Blackpoolshow2013.pdf)
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/BlackpoolForrest2013.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/BlackpoolForrest2013.pdf)
Thank you, Sandy!! :-*