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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on May 03, 2015, 02:26:42 PM
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Super Show of rock garden and alpine plants and plant sales too - All welcome - free admission for all !
VENUE: Victorian Corridor, Winter Gardens, Duthie Park, Polmuir Road, Aberdeen AB11 7TH
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Club plant stall and plants for sale from Ardfearn, Kevock and Garden Gate (https://sites.google.com/site/gardengateplants/)
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Approaching venue from the South.
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As luck would have it, we're on the mainland that weekend and looking forward to the show. The only competitive show I'll make this spring.
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Delighted to see that the Aberdeen show is being re-instated. It deserves all the support it can get both locally, nationally and even internationally if anyone is visiting Scotland. Only sorry I can't be there myself - a family wedding has got in the way. Love the poster.
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We have booked into Cove Bay Hotel for Friday night. That was easy, now to find some plants!
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Matt I hope you will have some plants with you. I think I am going to struggle this year. I have neglected my plants this year. Family commitments had to come first. Looking forward to the day and catching up with everyone.
Maureen enjoy your wedding and maybe see you up here next year with some plants for the show bench. You could have inspected your old garden if you had managed to come. Bill and Helen are looking after it for you. I told them they should have opened it for the day and people coming to the show could have visited the garden. It is looking so lovely.
David do your best with your plants. Its been years since I have been in the Cove Bay hotel but that was my local, stayed in Cove for many years. Only had a tiny garden so had to move on.
Angie :)
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Impossible this time around, Angie :( We're heading over on the ferry on Monday and then travelling around half of Scotland for the week, so plants would suffer and certainly not be in show-worthy condition. I have some seedlings and cuttings coming on to bring to a future sales stall - summer event IF I can make it, otherwise at the DWE. Look forward to meeting you in Aberdeen.
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Hope the weather will be nice for your trip. Yes, I can imagine it wouldn't be a good idea transporting your plants that distance.
It's a miserable day here and I was hoping to get some cutting done to sell for the club, that will now have to wait for another day and with the lack of nice weather all my plants that I was hoping would be ready for the show wont be. I hope others have better luck than me. Looking forward to the day, sandwich making for me. They don't give me anything technical to do as I am hopeless.
Hope to see lots of members on the day.
Angie :)
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A think a good level of skill is required to make decent sandwiches, and there are not many more important jobs. :)
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A think a good level of skill is required to make decent sandwiches, and there are not many more important jobs. :)
Thank you. We are not allowed to sell food at this new venue as they have the own cafe so sandwiches are just for members and those who look starving ;D
Angie :)
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... and those who look starving ;D
That will be Maggi, then ... ;D
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That will be Maggi, then ... ;D
Maggi and I are the same, we eat chocolate as they say it gives you that happy feeling. I can tell you they are right, I am always happy when I have something and thats anything covered in chocolate ;D
Angie :)
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I could never claim to be starving - but it's true I am Permanently Peckish! ::) :P
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I could never claim to be starving - but it's true I am Permanently Peckish! ::) :P
:) ;)
Angie :)
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Middle of May and a day of decidedly April weather in Aberdeen today - Sun and some showers.
Warm ( often VERY warm) and bright in the Victorian Corridor of the Winter Garden at the Duthie Park for the Aberdeen SRGC Show. The Winter Gardens have all the usual amenities of such a large glasshouse attraction and one of the largest ( it certainly used to the THE largest) Cactus collections in the UK is house in nearby glasshouse - here's a shot from Ian of one ....
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In this venue the show plants are displayed on shallow sand benches on either side of this long corridor, decorated at the moment with HUGE baskets of Streptosolen jamesonii which certainly added colour - not to mention floral head decorations to those brushing under their trailing stems. When they fall on your head the flowers stay there - they are quite sticky.
We were told that when they first had them in the Winter garden they tried growing them as in nature- as shrubs in a border, but the plants never did too well - then some suggested trying them as hanging basket plants - that worked a treat, as you can see. Those baskets must be nearly a metre across and the drop on the stems up to 2 m in some cases! ( The roof must be pretty sturdy!)
Two photos from Ian Young of staging plants this morning
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A few of the Lewisias entered
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The Forrest Medal Plant - Daphne calcicola 'Napa Hai' - grown by Cyril Lafong !
It is large and perfect!
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Majestic greenhouses and a nice unknown to me Daphne.
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First more of the Daphne with and without Cyril. Cyril won class 6 for 3 rare or difficult plants so received the Esslemont Quaich. His Saxifraga Snowcap received a certificate of merit. Bob Maxwell's Trillium luteum pushed the daphne hard for the Forrest so was also awarded a merit cert.
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Ian Christie took the Craig primula cup with P. sieboldii. His Fritillaria affinis received a merit cert. Your correspondent won the small 6 pan Jubilee class A, the Simpson Salver for a dwarf rhododendron with Wren and the big 6 pan class 1. All this contributed to most points and to receiving the Walker of Portlethen trophy.
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Aberdeen convenor Mike Hopkins won the Ulster Quaich with a fine Lewisia, part of his winning entry in class 2: three rock plants distinct. This award travels round the shows so it is at a different show each year and is given to a class or type of plant chosen by the local group. Section 2 at Aberdeen has a good selection of plants. Bill McGregor won the small 6 pan Jubilee card (B) and had the Aberdeen Quaich for best plant in section 2 with Trillium grandiflorum double form. Dave Aitken received a merit cert for a very fine Helichrysum County Park Silver and took the Brian Bull trophy for class 63: two rock plants.
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Just want to say thanks to everyone for supporting us today at the Winter Gardens.
Stan where do you get the energy, can you pass on your secret. I came home went out to the garden sat in the late sunshine and nearly fell asleep. Thanks for posting the pictures. SRGC is lucky to have you :)
Angie :)
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...............yesterday some of the energy came from all your nice rolls and home baking of which more shortly but first a tour of the benches for plants other than the award winners, starting with some of the entries in class 2 for three pans, then Scottish natives then plants raised from seed with accompanying notes.
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details on Cyril's three pan entry for rare and difficult plants
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more unusual plants with notes from Jean Wyllie and Dave Millward
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Now classes for two or three small pans, cushions, grey foliage some of the bulbs and meconopsis
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shrubs, more foliage, three from Scotland
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Dicentras, orchids, primulas and saxifrages
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colourful lewisias then hardy succulents
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gentian family, gesneriads and oxalis, ferns and the catch all class
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Now into section 2
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Primulas including a nice P. muscaroides
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Judging then joint show secretaries Lillian and Ian Chapman -who tell me there were 179 entries of which 136 were in the open section from a total of 22 exhibitors - add up the points while convenor Mike Hopkins has his tea.
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local members and other club stalwarts at work.
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some snaps around the show
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more
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and more
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.......at 4pm the show closed and the benches were soon ready for the Duthie park gardeners to refill with pot plants. The tables are taken away and the show convenor and Mrs H load their plants for the drive home.
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Super show everyone, lovely plants, lovely people and even a nice day? Tks for all your work Stan!
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Thanks Stan great to be at the show and it was warm very warm in the glasshouse not often you can complain about that in Aberdeen super location and lots of people around, thanks to Mike and his team all the food was also much appreciated, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Sandy Leven's Forrest Medal report is online now - HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/AberdeenForrest2015.pdf) 8)
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Now who was that 'star' hiding behind the dark glasses. I wonder?
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Now who was that 'star' hiding behind the dark glasses. I wonder?
In between the rain showers the sun was splitting the sky - so many sunglasses were in evidence. In the pix from the show I did notice an unbelievably tubby little woman who was clearly pretending to be Jackie Onassis - she did look a bit like me - but MUCH fatter........
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Nah! That WAS Jackie O surely?
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Using Stan's info from earlier posts, here is a rundown of the trophies awarded at the Aberdeen Show on Saturday. Photos are by local committee member, Graeme Strachan
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The silverware
now for the presentations ....
Section 2 at Aberdeen had a good selection of plants with local members taking the honours.
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Bill McGregor won the small 6 pan Jubilee card (B) and also bagged the Aberdeen Quaich for best plant in section 2 with Trillium grandiflorum double form.
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Dave Aitken received a merit cert for a very fine Helichrysum County Park Silver and took the Brian Bull trophy for class 63: two rock plants
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Now to the Open Classes - Section 1 - again the awards are presented by Mike Hopkins, local Group Convenor and the photos are from Graeme Strachan
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The Forrest medal went to Daphne calcicola Napa Hai grown by Cyril Lafong , who
also won the class for "3 rare or difficult plants" so received the Esslemont Quaich.
His Saxifraga Snowcap received a certificate of merit.
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Bob Maxwell's Trillium luteum pushed the Daphne hard for the Forrest so was also awarded a merit certificate.
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Ian Christie took the Craig primula cup with Primula sieboldii. His Fritillaria affinis received a merit cert.
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Stan da Prato won the small 6 pan Jubilee class A, the Simpson Salver for a dwarf rhododendron with Wren and the big 6 pan class 1. All this contributed to most points and to receiving the Walker of Portlethen trophy.
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Aberdeen convenor Mike Hopkins won the Ulster Quaich with a fine Lewisia, part of his winning entry in class 2: three rock plants distinct. (This award travels round the shows so it is at a different show each year and is given to a class or type of plant chosen by the local group.)
Mike's award was presented by Ian Chapman who, with Lilian Chapman, are taking over the Aberdeen show.
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Patrick and I were so pleased to have been able to attend the Aberdeen show and to catch up with some Rocking friends! Aberdeen was the perfect end to a week away. Stan has pretty much covered everything, so I'm only going to indulge myself with a few snaps of plants that caught our eye in particular. Well done to everyone involved with putting on the show. A major plus point for the venue was oodles of natural daylight, which showed the plants at their best.
That Trillium luteum was pretty special for me and I couldn't resist a wee sniff at those flowers.
After a week of looking at Rhodo's in gardens, the Rhododendron (Ledum) groenlandicum caught my eye. Perfectly grown.
Dactylorhiza foliosa(?), with really intense colouring.
Always looking for dwarf shrubs for my troughs, Berberis corallina compacta is now on the wishlist.
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Geranium subargenteum, with a nice contrast between the dark pink flowers and slightly glaucous foliage.
Primula marginata laciniata with stunning leaves.
Verbascum dumulosum, compact and beautiful.
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Great pictures and what a wonderful and appropriate venue for the Show. Can't think of any places quite like that down here but it must have drawn in a lot of people who had never seen such plants before.
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Sandy Leven's Aberdeen Show Report is now online HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Aberdeenshow2015.pdf)
Remember, all Sandy's show and Forrest Medal reports can be found HERE (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu)
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Seems ages ago now. Nice to have a wee peek again. Thanks Sandy.
Angie :)