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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Peter Maguire on March 27, 2016, 05:46:29 PM
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Hexham Show
The Hexham (Northumberland) show will be taking place at the Wentworth Leisure Centre in Northumberland as usual on Saturday 2nd April.
For those wanting to order plants from the specialist nurseries attending the show, they are:
Aberconwy Tel: 01492 580975
Edrom (www.edrom-nurseries.co.uk (http://www.edrom-nurseies.co.uk)) Tel: 01890 771386
Harperley Hall Farm (www.harperleyhallfarmnurseries.co.uk (http://www.harperleyhallfarmnurseries.co.uk)) Tel: 01207 233318
Hartside (www.plantswithaltitude.co.uk (http://www.plantswithaltitude.co.uk)) Tel: 01434 381372
Pottertons (www.pottertons.co.uk (http://www.pottertons.co.uk)) Tel: 01472 851714
Rumbling Bridge (www.rumblingbridgenursery.co.uk (http://www.rumblingbridgenursery.co.uk)) Tel: 01577 840160
Ryal Tel: 01661 886562
Slack Top (www.slacktopnurseries.co.uk (http://www.slacktopnurseries.co.uk)) Tel: 01422 845348
Timpany (www.timpanynurseries.com (http://www.timpanynurseries.com)) Tel: 028 9756 2812.
Some of the AGS shows have been closing a little earlier than previously this year, however we have found that the show is generally busy until almost the last minute, so will close at the advertised time of 4.00pm. Whilst the show hall will be closed for judging from 9.45 until about 11.30, the adjacent plant sales area will be accessible throughout this time as well as the time that the show is open.
Parking
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Previous visitors to the show will be aware that there have been changes to the parking arrangements over the past few years, and yet again the County Council have rearranged things in the car park. Whilst the show hall is adjacent to a large car park, which is free to park in, there are areas of limited parking duration marked out by coloured parking bays.
Red: Max 2 hours, no return within 3 hours
Blue: Max 4 hours, no return within 5 hours
White (marked in green on the map below): all day parking
These are monitored closely, and your arrival time is recorded in the car using a parking disc when using the Red and Blue marked bays. You can use a parking disc from home if your local council has a similar scheme, otherwise they are available locally, the best option being the Tourist Information Centre at the top of the car park (marked ‘Wentworth Car Park’ on the plan below) and will cost £1.00. For most people visiting the show, there will be plenty of space using the blue parking bays.
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For exhibitors, and others planning to be at the show for longer periods, you will need to use the white parking bays, no parking disc is necessary (shown in pale green on the plan above). Please note- I understand that generally ALL of these spaces are occupied by 9.00am, so you will have to get there early, and if unloading plants around the back of the show hall, then move your car into the main cark park straight away, before staging plants. The alternative is to use one of the other free parking spaces in the town which are a 10-15minute walk away, marked 11-15 on the map below, although realistically number 14 is the only one likely to have available spaces.
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Very useful info from Peter about the arrangements. When I looked at my SRGC schedules to plan some entries I noted an omission and several discrepancies so had to consult the AGS version online to clarify.
Class 95 only has a capital S -it turns out to be a plant for foliage effect. Class 46 is for a mini garden in SRGC but an alpine landscape in AGS -not necessarily the same thing.
SRGC list the 2014 trophy winners not 2015 and indicate that the Ivor Barton trophy is attached to class 103 but it went to Kendal this year.
For section 2 AGS say winning the Rutland salver precludes entry to that section while SRGC does not though they did for the Kendal schedule. It would be possible to win that with less than 50 firsts especially as section 2 in many Scottish shows attracts few entries.
For those attending joint rock it starts at 11.30 in one and 12 in the other.
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Hi folks,
Just to clarify a few corrections:
Class 95: Should read 'One pan rock plant for foliage effect' This was correct on the proof that I was sent to check, the error must have crept in at the printers.
Miniature gardens/alpine landscapes - this change was introduced in 2015 by AGS as they were trying to popularise shows for the general public and felt that miniature gardens could be broadened to include miniaturised garden gates, fences, sheds, etc - many show secretaries were not happy with this concept. The Northumberland Show schedule lists 'miniature alpine landscape' as the category for this class specifically to exclude this sort of 'stuff', and I would hope that it's description as such in the AGS schedule would be in line with a 'miniature garden' as perceived by SRGC members. ;)
Ivor Barton Trophy - yes, this is not being awarded at the Northumberland Show. I had forwarded the corrected information but it had not been changed in the proof, and I missed it - sorry to anyone who was cultivating six pots of seed for this class. :-X The AGS travelling trophy this year is actually the Bill Tubbs Trophy for the best pan of Ericaceae - just up Stan's street!
Regarding the Rutland Salver - this has been in the AGS schedules since 2002 (yes, I have them all!) and has not caused any problems until this year - the exhibitor concerned contacted me earlier this week and I sorted this out. I will ensure that the SRGC schedules will include this wording for next year to include the Rutland Salver when my successor takes over - this is my final year as show secretary.
Joint Rock committee start time? - that's outside my control and I haven't even yet been told officially who is hosting the meeting. The relevant people will be informed as soon as I know any more (probably at about 10.00am on Saturday)
I've also found one problem that Stan missed. Classes 103/104 and 105/106 have been transposed. It just makes the difference between one pan from seed/three pans from seed and can be shuffled around on the day. This has been incorrect since the 2014 schedules and has not previously been raised - I'm afraid that there have not been many SRGC exhibitors in this class of late, which is why I have missed it previously.
If anyone else finds any errors in the 168-class schedule, please let me know. :-\
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Crikey! There has been snow again in some parts of Scotland today - I hope the weather for the Hexham Show is more properly Spring-like! Mind you, if the weather is bad it's a great excuse to spend the day in a flower-filled hall, isn't it?
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Admission is free to SRGC/AGS Members, of course.
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Hailstones this afternoon albeit interspersed with sun so had to put some show plants on floor of my small greenhouse. From a distance they look quite colourful -the flaws appear when you get closer! Most stuff grows outside but it helps to keep heavy rain and worse off the flowers as they open. Besides Hexham there is the Caley show in RBGE this weekend so some will go there on Friday evening.
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Well done Stan on your efforts to be in two places at once! Helped I expect, by the fact that the Caley Show is on for two days - 2nd and 3rd April
Royal Caledonian Hort. Soc. (The Caley) Show
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Fletcher Building (Beside the Glasshouses)
2nd and 3rd April 2016 12 noon to 5pm
Admission – £3
RCHS Members Free Students & Children Free
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Folks are preparing already - from Rumbling Bridge Nursery, Hilary and Graeme are getting plants ready for sale .....
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and Lawrence Peet - who has a busy day at work tomorrow, must get his show plants ready in advance too...
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Looking at Stan's plants makes me glad that I ordered a few extra tables.....
Have spent the most of the evening adding entries to the AGS computer. It's going to be a very competitive year. ;)
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That's very good news, Peter - it'll be a bumper year for the visitors to enjoy 8) 8)
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Well, that's the car packed ready to go off to the show this evening to setup.
Having added all the entries into the AGS computer the total number of plants is potentially 750. :o
That probably means that we'll get about 500-550 on the day. Should be a good show. ;D
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Well, that's the car packed ready to go off to the show this evening to setup.
Having added all the entries into the AGS computer the total number of plants is potentially 750. :o
That probably means that we'll get about 500-550 on the day. Should be a good show. ;D
Fantastic - what a great show there will be.
The RBGE Alpine Dept. has been busy getting their plants ready for their display .......
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Great overview pic of the Hexham Show Hall from John Mitchell - full benches looking great
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Gold medal and certificate of merit for RBGE Alpine Dept. Display at Hexham Show - pic John Mitchell
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Lawrence Peet had news and pix of today's Forrest Medal at Hexham show - isn't it a cracker? Well done to Mark Childerhouse! Plant is Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem'
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From Rumbling Bridge Nursery:
"Our new Caltha hybrid - still to be named - has been awarded a Preliminary Commendation by the AGS/SRGC Joint Rock Committee at Hexham today."
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congrats to Graeme and Hillary!
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More of the trophy winners. Mark's excellent saxifrage has already been well covered. Tommy Anderson shared the RB Cooke open section trophy for most points with Don Peace. Tommy also won the AGS medal for 6 small pans. Don had many fine entries including a Fritillaria crassifolia hybrid that took the Sandhoe trophy for best plant in a 19 cm pot and a primula that went forward for an award from the joint rock committee
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Local grower Alan Furness, seen with outgoing show secretary Peter Maguire, won the EB Watson trophy with Callianthemum farreri. My winning the Tubbs travelling trophy for Ericaceous plants with a rhododendron led to considerable hilarity and comment about the size of pots and the grower. Another expert local grower and well known contributor to these columns George Young took the AGS medal for 6 large pans.
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Tubbs Trophy........ ::) ;D ;D ;D
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Many fine entries in sections 2 and 3. The ebullient Lawrence Peet won section 2, the Gordon Harrison cup and an SRGC bronze medal. David Morris won section 3 and the Cyril Barnes Trophy. Finally the Northumberland cup for a new exhibitor went to Ian Mathewson.
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As it was such a good show it's not surprising that several certificates of merit were awarded. Tommy Anderson received one for his Corydalis glaucescens. Cyril Lafong received one for his hybrid Tecophilea Storm Cloud. Barry Winter received one for a large pot of Iris bucharica. Don Peace Primula petelotti also had a certificate -it is shown in one of my earlier posts. RBG Edinburgh were given a certificate for a pot of Narcissus bulbocodium which was part of their gold medal display but it was away when I tried take its photo so some one else will have to show it.
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Now the customary gallop round the benches
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continuing
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still working along the first bench
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continuing
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and more from bench 1
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finishing first side
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across to bench 2
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more
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and continuing
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still on the first side of the second bench
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end of that side plus two I missed near the start of bench 2 including the delightful cut flowers
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Now the second side of the second bench
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more
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onwards
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and on
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nearing the end
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Now some plants with notes attached
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more
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and more
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more
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final ones
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The far wall had the last few open section plants then lots of nice things in the intermediate and novice sections
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more
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last of that bench
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nurseries and customers
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and others
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last batch from that area
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People among the plants
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more
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and others
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and more
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yet more
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many thanks to the NE group for all their work and especially to Peter for his organisation in his last show as secretary - he tells me has done 11 years so time to pass on the baton. Just one example of the way members pull together at these events is that the hall was clear with an hour of the show closing.
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What a fantastic show! Best we've seen for a while, I think. A tremendous amount of work from Stan to take and prepare the photos for us to enjoy - thanks, Stan!
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It is the AGS Chesterfield show on Saturday 9th. April, hope to be there.
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Enjoy Chesterfield AGS show, Ian - for the SRGC, 9th April is the date for the Edinburgh Show 8)
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Thanks Stan, for a very comprehensive report. You've pictured plants there the I overlooked at the time - I suppose there were a few other things I had to do on the day. ;)
It turned out to be a very relaxed, pleasant show for my last time as show secretary. I did have a lot of apprehension about the Council's new car parking arrangements before the show and whether it would cause us problems, but in the event, everything went very smoothly. If anyone did have any car parking issues, please let me know, as we are already thinking ahead to next year's show.
I'd like to thank all the people who have helped out over the past few years, both local group members and those from further afield, who have made my task so much easier. Hopefully, Angus who is taking over from me will be as lucky. And a big thank to all the exhibitors who put so much effort in cultivating an amazing array of plants before getting up at ridiculous hours of the early morning to drive to Hexham with them year after year: a lovely bunch of people.
I had time for a few photographs when the show quietened down later in the afternoon, and will post a few when they've been downloaded from the camera.
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Lawrence Peet has pix online .... https://lawrencepeetalpines.com/2016/04/03/ags-srgc-show-hexham-april-2nd-2016/
including this one - by the patient Helen, I expect, of Lawrence with his booty!
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Lawrence with his booty!
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..............surely some mistake- this is clearly a front view of the estimable Lawrence.
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"Ebullient" and " estimable "! Stan, you are very kind, I think the drinks are on me after such fine words.
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Lawrence will be on the lookout for a sustantial trophy cabinet at the auction house, his current one must be straining under the weight!
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thanks for posting the photos Stan - much appreciated
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A miserable wet day here in Northumberland so time to process pictures from the show, I see it has already been well covered thanks to Stan but me being me will just post what I have so there is bound to be repetition. Although the weather could have been kinder on the day there seemed plenty of folk through the door and, for me, the parking did not seem to much of a problem while throughout the day whenever I went outside there were always spaces available for people who wanted to visit the show for an hour or two. It is possible that this was the last Hexham show and new venues are being looked at but if we want folk through the door we have to find/use venues such as these where Jo Public can just pop in, browse/buy and leave on the spur of the moment....time will tell
Start with the Forrest Medal winner from Mark Childerhouse in Class 16
Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem', I was told it was at least 18 years old, di9d not realise the Coolock clan had been around so long. Mark also had a very nice
Saxifraga x georgei (70), not the easiest to grow
As Stan has already mentioned he and I were the entries in Class 1, the so called Big Six so I show pictures of both, Stan's entry first taken to show some of the Open bench as well then my entry which was made up from Sax. 'Coolock Gem', Sebaea thomasii, Trillium rivale, Saxifraga grisebachii, Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid'
Saxifraga 'Frank Sinatra' was the lovely saxifrage in Stan's entry
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Tommy Anderson shared the Most Points in the Open Section with Don Peace so I will show several of Tommy's exhibits
Class 2 Three Pan
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More from Tommy Anderson
The Small Six, class 50, two plants from it were
Saxifraga 'Allendale Harvest' and
Cyclamen persicum. Tommy also had a few 'new' (at least to me) Saxifrages on show, one being 'Allendale Harvest' above
Saxifraga 'Allendale Enchanter' was another
Class 3, three pans primulaceae was won by Frank and Barbara Hoyle with P. 'Mrs Dyas', P.'Marjorie Wooster and P. 'Pink Aire'. I took the picture without the flash as it was the only way I could get over some idea of the true colour of the flowers
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Sue Simpson had a very nice
Pulsatilla vernalis (15) and I caught her chatting up Ian of the Christie kind although I think from now on I will have to call him Ian of the too much Curry kind till he gets his shape back!!!. There a couple of other pulsatilla that were on display
Pulsatilla vulgaris (28) from Cyril Lafong and
Pulsatilla styriaca from Lionel Clarkson (105) which I did like the look of, he also had
Primula petiolaris 'Sherrifs Form', again a plant that looks filled with potential
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As already posted Stan da Prato won the award for the best pan of Ericaceae with
Rhododendron 'Lucy Lou' (32). There was another nice Rhododendron in class 92 from Elizabeth Dodds
Rhododendron 'Oban'
Rhododendron 'Snow Lady' (122) from Janet Fielden, my one at home is flowering nicely this year, means we have not had a frost
Phylliopsis halleri 'Sprite' (32) from Trevor Harding was a nice exhibit, Trevor also had
Cassiope lycopodiodes 'Jim Lever' on the bench in (92)
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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh had a floriferous display at one end of the show hall, the display was awarded a Gold Medal, the plant that attracted me most from the display was
Fritillaria crassifolia ssp. poluninii, was probably the smallest plant in the display.
Other fritillaria at the show were
Fritillaria crassifolia x from Don Peace (22)
Fritillaria davisii (78) Fred & Pat Bundy, one of those plants not easy to get a good picture of.
Narcissus bulbocodium (80) from David Millward
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The Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee met at Hexham and awarded quite a few PC's, among which were
Primula petelotii (56) Don Peace
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus 'Storm Cloud (25) Cyril Lafong
Caltha polypetala x leptosepala from Graeme Butler
Asarum maculate (87) from Alan Newton
My Viola douglasii also made a PC, quite how it got there not sure as I did not take it up
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Iris bucharica (26) from Barry Winter was in even better form than the previous week so worth another picture
Pleione Hekla gx (19) from Don Peace.
A plant I would have to be careful with who I told its name to or if I had had a drink or two was
Hepatica japonica 'Fukuiyu' (82) from Bob Worsley, I thought it was a nice plant just the same
Erythronium citrinum (84) from Anne Wright
Crocus veluchensis 'Giant White' (21) from myself, looked better on Sunday and had a couple of flowers gone by today
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Primula elatior from Mike Dale (27), a nice fresh exhibit
Primula clusiana Murray Lyon (57) from Alan Furness, he also had
Lewisia brachycalyx in a seed class (105)
Ian Kidman has not shown much this year but he returned to form with
Dionysia viscidula x freitagii (64) while
Dionysia 'Golden Yellow' (162) was a good plant David Morris who had the most points in the Novice section
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The aforementioned Lawrence Peet, as can be seen from his post, had a good day
Paraquilegia anemonoides (136) was a good example of his plants that earned him the most points in the Intermediate section.
I had better not forget
Hepatica 'Millstream Merlin' (114) from Christine Boulby after our references to David Boyd last week, he would have been very pleased with this pan
Primula 'Stradbrook Gem' (5), again from David Millward
Primula 'Tinneys Moonlight' (132) from Alan Oatway
General show scene
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Narcissus bulbocodium tenuifolius was in class 79 but I did not get the exhibitor
Androsace muscoidea (61) from Peter Hood
Cyclamen repandum (62) Steve Walters who also had
Cyclamen persicum 'Tilebarn Karpathos' in 146, a lovely deep colour
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You will be pleased that I am nearing the end
Silene californica (100) from Brian Burrow
Saxifraga pulchra (101) from Cyril Lafong
Asteropyrum cavalerei (101) Trevor and Angie Jones, they are a great help at the show, setting up on the Friday night, clearing up after the show on the Saturday and even manage to bring a few plants as well.
I have all the notes for the above plants that I could post if asked but think these have already been posted by Stan
Final picture is at the end of the day, the Edrom trade stand in a more relaxed mode talking to Peter Maguire, his last show as secretary, many thanks Peter for your sterling efforts over the years
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"Asarum maculata (87) from Alan Newton" - we need to tell the Butcher it's Asarum maculatum :)
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Sandy Leven's report on the Forrest Medal Winner at Hexham is online now HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/ForrestHexham2016.pdf)
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Nice to see Stan in front of the camera for a change :D
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Sandy Leven's report on the Hexham Show is now online : HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/HexhamShow2016.pdf)