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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Martinr on September 01, 2016, 10:23:26 AM
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It's only a month away...time to start panicking. Anyway I've already been asked for a list on the nurseries attending so here it is.
Aberconwy
Choice Landscapes
Edrom
Laneside Hardy Orchids
Little Heath Farm
Parham Bungalow
Potterton
Tale Valley
Thuja Alpines
Hartside
Buried Treasure
Cambridge Bulbs
Miniature and Choice Bulbs
Copton Ash
Nigel Sandham troughs and containers (some of you will have seen Nigel at the Bakewell Shows)
Hope to see lots of you there
Martin
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Quite a list, Martin! 8)
The appearance of Thuya alpines must mean that Simon Bond is in better health now? That's good news.
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Hope to make this one
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Entries are flooding in...should be a good one
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Excellent news, Martin - have a great day!!
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Another reason to visit the Loughborough show ...... on Facebook, Tony Hale has posted about these Saxifragas .....
"( The first) pic shows 40 silvers, the (next) one shows 39 kabschias. I shall be taking them to Loughboro AGS show tomorrow for sale on the members table. Maybe see some of you during the day."
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Sounds like an offer you can't refuse!
Have a great day, folks!
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Oh!!!!!!!!! Wish I could get there as it opens.
Boss has just seen the photos and sniffed. "More blooming saxifrages!"
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Oh!!!!!!!!! Wish I could get there as it opens.
Boss has just seen the photos and sniffed. "More blooming saxifrages!"
me too but got to wait for Mrs G to get back from the hairdressers before we can go........ so probably miss the bacon butties as well
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Alas Graeme, bacon butties are a thing of the past as we no longer have access to the kitchen but, fear not, you won't go hungry :)
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Some photos from Facebook form the show .
These from Michael Myers, first, a pic of Bob and Rannweig Wallis's three pan class of Biarum pyrami, Rhodophiala bifida and Hyacinthoides ciliolata.
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Cyclamen and show bench
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Sternbergia sicula winning a Certificate of Merit for Ian Robertson
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Crocus vallicola won the Farrer Medal for best plant for Alan Furness - what a cracking potfull!
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A few pictures pinched from Razvan Chisu!
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Raz' photo of that winning Crocus
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Cyclamen hederifolium 'Tilebarn Shirley'
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Biarum pyrami
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Habenaria radiata
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a couple more pix from Razvan....
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Narcissus obsoletus
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posy of leaves
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more beautiful foliage
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Got there in time to see the Saxifrages then the Boss said those dreaded words. "Just where are you going to put them?" So I had to leave many of them there. :'(
Nice show though.
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Brave Eric, you need to be brave ;D
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That Biarum should come with its own fume cupboard. I wouldn't fancy having it in the car.
Thanks to all who came and made it a successful day.
Now what was it Zebedee used to say.....................
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Sleep tight, Martin!
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Brave Eric, you need to be brave ;D
And have elastic side gardens. And even deeper pockets. We did spend £75 on plants though.
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And have elastic side gardens. And even deeper pockets. We did spend £75 on plants though.
just got a couple of cyclamen - like I need anymore - and another Lindum primula I had not seen before and a few dry bulbs - after spending an hour driving round country roads because the A42 and M1 junction was blocked I was not really in the mood - at least there was good news a new venue for next year where I might get a bacon buttie.....
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and yes that plant did smell awful - you would need a trailer
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Hope a new venue will have white light as well as bacon butties! Some halls are blighted by that yellow glow! Thank goodness we know how the plants really look. Some cracking cyclamen, there.
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Hope a new venue will have white light as well as bacon butties! Some halls are blighted by that yellow glow! Thank goodness we know how the plants really look. Some cracking cyclamen, there.
Some decent light would have been handy - the original files are HDR - but spoiled by the yellow light. There were some great plants on show
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Nice to see Robert Rolfe kneeling down outside taking photos for the AGS magazine and website.
Will try and sort my pictures out later, but the sun is shining and there are bulbs to be dealt with and apples to be picked.
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The new venue has much better lighting, both artificial and natural, but I'm afraid bacon butties will not be back on the menu. Fewer and fewer schools are prepared to allow the use of their kitchens.
Now for a day of cleaning and packing so all the stuff can go back in the attic for 5 months....just in case anyone thought the work finished when the show did :P :P
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And a good picture of the Farrer plant and its owner can be seen here
www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Autumn+st+October/20254 (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Autumn+st+October/20254)
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Mala Janes pointed out on Facebook that people didn't believe Alan Furmness when he said he had another plant the same as the Farrer plant at home ... here's the proof..... and how Alan keeps the mice off the gems....
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Many thanks to Mala Janes for reminding us that this was Alan Furness' 25th Farrer Medal - quite a record! Even more congratulations are due to Alan for this feat.
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Many thanks to Mala Janes for reminding us that this was Alan Furness' 25th Farrer Medal - quite a record! Even more congratulations are due to Alan for this feat.
he deserves one just for those baskets.....
It was a superb pan