Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: shelagh on April 04, 2016, 12:10:44 PM
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For the last few years East Lancs. AGS group has been putting on a display at Ramsbottom Horticultural Society's April Show. We empty our greenhouse and borrow plants from fellow members yesterday we had plants from Bob Worsley and John Dower. The display shows other growers a different side to horticulture, it also garners us extra visitors to our AGS Show.
They like to encourage their youngsters to join in and exhibit in the Junior sections. One class is for a miniature garden and another for an animal sculpture. There is fierce competition in these classes and all entrants whether they win or not get a medal at the prize giving.
I thought you might like to see. Also a lovely plant of Rebutia albiflora which I could have tucked under my coat, it was in the House Plant in flower section.
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Rest of the pics.
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Such fun, Shelagh, to see the vegetable animals especially. Too good to eat!
Great idea to be involved wherever possible with other organisations - it's something lots of SRGC groups too, as well as the main club's support of others, at home and abroad.
This very morning permission has been given by the SRGC Editor to share an article from a recent issue of "The Rock Garden" with a charitable group in Essex who are renovating a rock garden for their area.
I cannot understand why other organistions do not get involved in such sharing of information etc.
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Such fun, Shelagh, to see the vegetable animals especially. Too good to eat!
Great idea to be involved wherever possible with other organisations - it's something lots of SRGC groups too, as well as the main club's support of others, at home and abroad.
This very morning permission has been given by the SRGC Editor to share an article from a recent issue of "The Rock Garden" with a charitable group in Essex who are renovating a rock garden for their area.
I cannot understand why other organistions do not get involved in such sharing of information etc.
I couldn't agree more.
Great to involve the youngsters too. I suspect most gardening societies need some young blood and encouraging them at and early age is a good way forward.
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Well done, Brian and Shelagh … many thanks for representing the East Lancs AGS Group so well over the years.
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Not SRGC but a few pictures of the children's section at the Caley show in Edinburgh Botanics last weekend. Using a separate area to the main show allows a range of activities as well as the display of bulbs in pots- six pots per school. The picture of the little girl is from the previous year and was then used by her local paper. This morning some of the East Lothian bulbs were planted out though not by the children who are on holiday.
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Terrific Stan. More budding alpinists. Annew beware you will soon have competition ;)