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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Martinr on February 25, 2014, 08:50:31 PM
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AGS Loughborough Spring Show 8th March
Charnwood College, Thorpe Hill, Loughborough, LE11 4SQ. Only a couple of miles from the M1, J23
Not long now until the annual spring extravaganza. Never mind if you’re not into show plants, although how can you not be wowed by 700+ plants ablaze in almost every colour of the rainbow and a few more besides. Is art your thing? Come and visit the artistic section.
This is also the plant sale to end all plant sales. Nurseries in attendance are:
Aberconwy
Choice Landscapes
Edrom
Evolution Plants
Fieldhouse
Laneside Hardy orchids
Little Heath Farm
Norwell
Orchid Alchemy
Parham Bungalow
Potterton
Slack Top
Tale Valley
Thuya Alpines
Wildside Plants
Plus an AGS members plant stall, Terrapot pots, AGS Book Stall & Seed Sales and on site catering, don’t miss the best sausage and bacon cobs on the show circuit (others may, of course, dispute this claim).
All this for just £3, members free of course.
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Merciful heavens, it's worth a visit for the plant sales alone - so much temptation in one place!
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For non drivers the best way to get to the school is by bus from the centre of Loughborough. A 'Sprint' bus leaves the Railway Station every 10 minutes for the town centre from where the Kinchbus 5, which runs every 30 minutes, will bring you to the gates of the school. This is one of those services which runs on a 'loop' and goes through the town centre twice so try to get on it going the shortest way.
Martin
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This is one of those services which runs on a 'loop' and goes through the town centre twice so try to get on it going the shortest way.
Wonder if we ought to run a competition to see which visitors can work out which way is the "shortest way" ? ;D
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There's always one ::)
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There's always one ::)
That would probably be me - I have nightmares about "anti-clockwise on the M25" - fine - but from the north or the south ??? ::)
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That would probably be me - I have nightmares about "anti-clockwise on the M25" - fine - but from the north or the south ??? ::)
But that's only a problem if you approach it from above or below 8)
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I've been somewhat put-off AGS shows by one that takes place more local to me. There it seems if you turn up at the time the show formally opens you will have already missed all the best plants. Is Loughborough the same?
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The best plants on the members stall go to the people who turn up at dawn to stage their plants!
The Nursery men will bring orders for you,so their best plants could well be under the stall just awaiting your arrival.
Worth going even if you come away with no plants at all.
Lousy lighting for picture taking though.
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Alan, plant sales at Loughborough officially open at 10.00. Shall I make sure someone's on the door early to take your £3 or have you given in and joined up :)
Seriously there is no problem after about 09.00
Alas Eric, there is little I can do about the lights :'(
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Thank you Martin. If I do manage to go I doubt that I would get up early enough to get there much before 10 anyway but If I arrive early I'll try to get straight in.
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For non drivers the best way to get to the school is by bus from the centre of Loughborough. A 'Sprint' bus leaves the Railway Station every 10 minutes for the town centre from where the Kinchbus 5, which runs every 30 minutes, will bring you to the gates of the school. This is one of those services which runs on a 'loop' and goes through the town centre twice so try to get on it going the shortest way.
Martin
https://www.kinchbus.co.uk/services/kinchbus5 (https://www.kinchbus.co.uk/services/kinchbus5)
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&ie=UTF-8&q=loughborough+railway+station&fb=1&hq=Loughborough+railway+station&cid=13281586965389600667&ei=4tMRU_kO74HtBo6xgMAL&ved=0CJoBEPwS (https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&ie=UTF-8&q=loughborough+railway+station&fb=1&hq=Loughborough+railway+station&cid=13281586965389600667&ei=4tMRU_kO74HtBo6xgMAL&ved=0CJoBEPwS)
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Hope it's a fine day for those at Harlow today: AGS EARLY SPRING SHOW, Mark Hall School, First Avenue, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9LR.
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Jim McG. has "tweeted" a picture of the Farrer Medal Plant at Loughborough : https://twitter.com/JimMcGregorAGS/status/442303428602363904/photo/1 Fritillaria stenanthera shown by George Elder
Congratulations to the winner, bulbs to the fore yet again!
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All I can say is 'I'm knackered' but a great day! Thanks, in heaps, are due to all those who helped. Well done. Beer and bed beckons :P
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Sounds like you may "sleep tight" Martin - and why not indeed. :D
Hope you have a quiet day with your feet up tomorrow. :)
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Sleep tight! No chance, Ma heid's fu' o wee motors. relax tomorrow........need to sort out his huge pile of stuff ???
Sunday night, sleep. Monday, relax 8)
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Will the owner of the cyclamen in a clay pot that was left behind please get in touch before I consign it to the next group raffle :o
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Infamy, INFAMY! They've all got it in for me...
Poor wee Andy came second to TETE A TETE!!! :'( :'(
Great show though, very busy and some great plants.
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C'est la vie, Anne. Hope there are more photos to come, I didn't get to see many of the plants :'(
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some photos just in via Ponteland........
Dionysias in profusion - Class 1 six pan AGS Medal for Paul & Gill Ranson, Chippenham - who also won another AGS Medal for Class 50 - 6 pans rock plants distinct, not more than two of one genus 8)
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Hepatica: Certificate of Merit for Rosina Abbiss, Harpenden for Hepatica japonica x yamatutai
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Thought for a moment this was a suberb Anemonella, but I think it is a fantastic double Hepatica
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more flowering cushions of Dionysia
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and....
Dionysia : Ione Hecker Trophy best pan of Primulaceae to Alan & Janet Cook, Dinton for Dionysia 'Bernd Wetzel'
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Corydalis
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Callianthemum
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Saxifraga : Saxifraga Group Salver best pan of Saxifraga to Peter Hood, Hetton-le-Hole for Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem'
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Serapias
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next.....
colchicum
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Narcissus alpestris
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Fritillaria stenanthera ( - I think this is the Farrer Medal plant )
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then.....
Corydalis
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Correa
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Three pan entries
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Hepatica nobilis japonica f. magna
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Primula ( perhaps Arduaine?)
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and....
Dionysias
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Fritillaria alburyana
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Cymbidium goeringii
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