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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Tim Ingram on September 21, 2014, 08:24:57 PM
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Here is a picture from 2013 - an arrangement of flowers by Lee and Julie Martin... all gardeners know that autumn is an ideal time to plant as well, and here is a nice picture of the season from the American poet Helen Hunt, courtesy of Allen Lacy ('The Garden in Autumn'):
The lands are lit
With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod
And everywhere the purple asters nod
And bend and wave and flit.
Look forward to welcoming visitors who discover the Show in Kent this autumn.
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The RAINHAM Show is at Rainham School for Girls, Derwent Way, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 0BX
Hoping for a very successful day all round, Tim.
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For those who can't get to Kent for the Rainham Show tomorrow, here are a couple of alternatives :
Bristol AGS Conference (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/groups/Bristol/event/) Sat Sept 27 David Haselgrove Kevin Hughes John Good Martin Sheader contact Peter Bird (phone 0117 9682782) or Sheila Ashby (ian_sheila@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01275 851254) to see if there are spaces left.
Ashwood Nurseries : John's Garden Open Day tomorrow 10am-4pm. Entrance £5 proceeds to Stroke Support West Midlands. http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/events/johns-garden-open-day-6/ (http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/events/johns-garden-open-day-6/)
Whatever you're doing, have a lovely weekend - best of luck to all show exhibitors!
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And for those who're in Kent next week end there's the Great Dixter plant fair (Tim, Peter Korn, Jurgen Peters for the alpine lovers)
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And for those who're in Kent next week end there's the Great Dixter plant fair (Tim, Peter Korn, Jurgen Peters for the alpine lovers)
What lucky people those attending will be.........
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Too much going on this weekend! Rainham Show - a few random pictures follow culminating in the Best in Show and Farrer Medal winner. Then on to Canterbury Food and Drink Festival - http://www.canterbury.co.uk/canterburyfoodfestival.aspx (http://www.canterbury.co.uk/canterburyfoodfestival.aspx) - which seems to get better and better every year, and features the unique Kent Green Hop Beer tent - http://kentgreenhopbeer.com/ (http://kentgreenhopbeer.com/) - leaving no time to visit Folkestone Beer Festival - http://folkestonebeerfestival.co.uk/ (http://folkestonebeerfestival.co.uk/) - maybe tomorrow!
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The final four pictures (add your own captions!) including best in show.
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I hope your nose didn't get too close to that second last picture (the Biarum)...truly disgusting
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Yes, I know many people like them but I just don't get it myself. I have enough trouble digging up Arum maculatum from all over the garden every year.
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I hope your nose didn't get too close to that second last picture (the Biarum)...truly disgusting
I suppose sometimes the slowness of Fred to get that scent button working is a blessing! The velvety textured red looks very glamorous though, doesn't it and does not look stinky!!
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Rannveig and Bob had to drive all the way there and back (to South Wales) with this plant, plus another equally fragrant one - wonderful dedication! Their plants are just so beautifully grown, and this one extraordinarily interesting if smelly.
This Sternbergia wasn't even on the showbench, but displayed with the plants Rannveig had for sale - I think Bob said it was over 20 years old. It really is amazing to see plants like this!
We could have done with a beer tent at the end of the show after clearing up! A lot of tired thirsty people. A nice day though, and quite a few new faces looking through the nursery plants and the displays. Aim to write a bit more about the day in the other place - some fantastic cyclamen but a notable absence of autumn gentians. Some scope for a new lot of plants next year.
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Indeed a fantastic day and good to see and speak some friends again. It was really hot inside and I surely could use a Belgian beer .........
We did see some wonderfull Sternbergia's and Cyclamen , Biarums but we did not see many Crocus and Colchicums. And as Tim says the gentians where a bit absent. Here they where flowering a bit early , could it be a reason ?
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It was a nice day, good to speak to friends there.
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The Cyclamens are always eye-catching, some cse hederifolium are particularly beautifull
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No words for these pans :o
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Some Crocuses (nudiflorus a vallicola) and Narcissus cavanillesii
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Biarum take it all the eyes and....nose ;D
the foliage of Astilbe microphylla is also stunning
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Indeed a fantastic day and good to see and speak some friends again. It was really hot inside and I surely could use a Belgian beer .........
Bear with me, this is about plants, really. Hops are plants, right? Humulus lupulus?
Just back from the Folkestone Beer Festival, and their tasting notes sum up very well what is special about Kent Green Hop beers:
"When the annual hop harvest comes, it brings with it a four week window of opportunity for brewers to make the ultimate seasonal beer. As perennial plants, hops return every spring and are harvested at the end of summer in both hemispheres - they give beer the quenching bitterness and appealing aroma which makes us go back for another gulp. Freshly picked hops start to deteriorate in quality and flavour as soon as they are stripped from the bine, so they're usually taken directly from field to kiln to be dried and then packed. The drying process is essential to ensure that the hops last a full year, but in the process volatile oils which otherwise contribute to the beer's taste and aroma are lost. This is where there is a chance to make a unique seasonal drink: green-hopped beers, also known as wet- or fresh-hopped; take hops fresh from the bine and straight into the brewhouse, bypassing the kiln. The flavours in freshly picked hops are very different from those in dried hops; the grassy, delicate citrus notes in fresh hops turn pungent and intense when they are dried. It's like the difference between a freshly picked apple or tomato and one that's been roasted or dried. Speed is crucial when brewing a green-hopped beer and the hops need to get from field to brewery in the shortest time possible to capture all those delicate volatile oils before they begin to oxidise. The joy of a green-hopped beer is in the aroma and flavour which captures an elemental essence of late summer; an evocative grassy kind of spiciness that hangs in the air."
So there you have it! A seasonal treat, and for our Belgian friends (and us as well) Canterbury Brewers have made two Belgian-style green hop beers; a Blonde and a Saisons.
Cheers!
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Some Crocuses (nudiflorus a vallicola) and Narcissus cavanillesii
Hi Yann,
These Narcissus were so well cultivated that I am very much interested in to know who
was the exhibitor!
Gerd
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Gerd i didn't shot the label. May be some forum's member will let us know.
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The answer is Ian Robertson
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Ian Robertson
is from the North East of England and has won quite a number of Farrer medals - he grows superb cyclamen, for instance. He is very skilled with many plants and I agree, Gerd, the quality of the pot of Narcissus is really something!
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Ian Robertson is from the North East of England...........................
I thought this one was from Dorset/Wiltshire way?
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I thought this one was from Dorset/Wiltshire way?
Oooh err.... well there may well be two Ian Robertsons ....... Martin will know.
This is the Ian Roberston who grows great cyclamen - pictured by Jon Evans .....
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Near shaftesbury Dorset.
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Thanks Pat!
Sorry, I got the wrong Ian Robertson. :-[
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I spoke to Ian about the Narcissus cavanillesii after the show. Whilst it is clear that he has a very good clone, he stresses that the important thing is for it to become very pot-bound. These bulbs are in a plastic pot, double potted for the show, and he hasn't disturbed them for 5-6 years. He merely replaces the compost above the bulbs in summer, and feeds once or twice with dilute tomato food in spring, before letting them bake in the summer. That's all he told me; his potful was written up in an AGS show report in 2011 and 2010, but there is little if any more information there.
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Autumn+South+AGS+Show+/175/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Autumn+South+AGS+Show+/175/)
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Autumn+South+AGS+Show+/138/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Autumn+South+AGS+Show+/138/)
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Oh, Thanks, Jon - excellent info there.