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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 02, 2017, 05:39:44 PM
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Dublin AGS Show
will be on Saturday 8 April 10:00–15:30 at Cabinteely Community School, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin.
http://www.alpinegardensociety.ie/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.ie/)
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Dublin AGS Show last year
Ulster AGS Show, will be on Saturday, 22nd April, at Greenmount College, Antrim.
http://www.alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk/ (http://www.alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk/)
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Primula 'Netta Dennis' which won the 2016 SRGC Quaich at Ulster AGS SHow for Susan Tindall. Photo by Heather Smith
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Saw some of the gentlemen in the picture enjoying Hexham Show on Saturday.
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It is also the Chesterfield AGS Show this Saturday as well- at Brookfield School Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield S40 3NS -
Nurseries attending are Choice Landscapes, Wildside Nursery, Hartside Nursery, Alpine Plant Centre, Potterton, Laneside Orchids, Aberconwy and Harperley Hall - so quite a few nursery folks will be spreading themselves around the country to attend both AGS and SRGC shows
Neil Huntley of Hartside, who will also have a stand at Edinburgh SRGC show, tells me that local Chesterfield folks are having to make an extra effort to get the show together after the very unfortunate illness of Show Secretary John Savage - we are sure all will be well for the show - and of course our main thoughts are with John and his family - and hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Get well soon, John!
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Indeed thanks are due to the local, and not so local, folks who've rallied round to make sure the Chesterfield Show is a success and gives John a boost as he recovers.
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Chesterfield AGS Show 2017- at Brookfield School Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield S40 3NS -
Nurseries attending are Choice Landscapes, Wildside Nursery, Hartside Nursery, Alpine Plant Centre, Potterton, Laneside Orchids, Aberconwy and Harperley Hall - so quite a few nursery folks will be spreading themselves around the country to attend both AGS and SRGC shows
Neil Huntley of Hartside, who will also have a stand at Edinburgh SRGC show on the same day, tells me that local Chesterfield folks are having to make an extra effort to get the show together after the very unfortunate illness of Show Secretary John Savage - we are sure all will be well for the show - and of course our main thoughts are with John and his family - and hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Get well soon, John!
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And this from Diane Clement: Don Peace wins the Farrer medal at Cleveland Show with Androsace vandellii -
Well done, Don! Super plant and Androsace vandellii is one which has won many Forrest Medals over the years too- a "good do-er" for the Show bench for sure.
I'm not a great lover of Drabas - but this Draba longisiliqua is something else! It won a Certificate of Merit and. John and Gill Saxton Memorial trophy for best plant native to Europe for Martin Rogerson at Chesterfield - photo from Lawrence Peet who also showed some other pix on Facebook of the fine plants at the show.
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Photos of some crackers from Chesterfield from Lawrence Peet
Finley Swift trophy for best plant in a pan not exceeding 19cm, Daphne petraea Lydora for Ivor Betteridge at AGS Chesterfield
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Ranunculus alpestris Certificate of Merit for Ian Kidman[/b] at Chesterfield AGS
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Rhododendron racemosum dwarf white form and the Chesterfield Vase for best pan of Ericaceae for Robert Rolfe.[/b] A plant that came on the train and by taxi!!!!!
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Certificate of Merit for Geoff Rollinson and Androsace villosa taurica
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Farrer medal for Geoff Rollinson and Primula henrici at Chesterfield AGS show today
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Geoff Rollinson and his stunning Farrer Medal exhibit at Chesterfield AGS Show.
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Excellent portrait of the man, Cliff ...... and the plant looks pretty good too!
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Other AGS shows today - 15th April - are Kent at Sutton Valence - here's a pic from Derry Watkins' Tweet of the plant sales going well for the Levers of Aberconwy....
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And this from Diane Clement: Don Peace wins the Farrer medal at Cleveland Show with Androsace vandellii
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Well done, Don! Super plant and Androsace vandellii is one which has won many Forrest Medals over the years too- a "good do-er" for the Show bench for sure.
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Farrer Medal winner at Kent AGS Show at Sutton Valance today is this neat, well-flowered Ramonda from Ivan Pinnick. Photo by Paddy Parmee
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Ramonda nathaliae JCA 686
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From today's Kent show.
Best plant in the novice section and best plant in a pot not exceeding 19 cms.
Labelled as Iris reichenbachii,but the judges left a note saying probably I.schachtii.
Modesty forbids me mentioning the exhibitors name.
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Well done, Philip!! A lovely Iris .
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From Paddy Tobin on FB -
"Isn't this the most divine trillium ever! It is Trillium 'Bob Gordon', grown by Billy Moore and won a Farrer Medal for Billy at the recent Alpine Garden Society show in Dublin."
The photograph is from Paddy Smith.Passed to Paddy T. by Harold MacBride.
This wonderful trillium, named for one of the very best and most charming of Irish gardeners, and shown, photographed and shared with us by four more - Billy Moore and Paddy Smith and thanks to Harold MacBride and Paddy Tobin for sharing!
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Thank you Maggi
It was better the day before,I had to take 3 flowers off.
My other 1st places.
Intermediate 3 pan-Anemonella thalictroides 'Rosea', Oscar Schoaf' and Betty Blake'
Novice dwarf Narcissus-N.bulbocodium-taken at home
Novice seed grown-Ranunculus amplexicaulis,sown Jan '11-taken at home
I've got some other photos to put up from around the show,when I have more time.
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Pat Crossley's report on the Dublin AGS Show :
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Dublin+AGS+Show+/327/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Dublin+AGS+Show+/327/)
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Going by the lack of both information and pictures on our pages no-one is interested in the East Anglia AGS Show. In case anyone is interested John Evan's pictures are available on The AGS Site.
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Direct link to Jon's photos
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/East+Anglia+Show+May+th+/20335/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/East+Anglia+Show+May+th+/20335/)
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I put this on that place that you once visited David (Facebook), but following your prompt here are a few pictures - it was an enjoyable and very friendly day, but still not really enough people outside the AGS discovered it (we brought back quite a few plants, speaking as a nurseryman). Jon records the plants wonderfully - maybe I should make reference to his pictures on Facebook too? At some point I aim to write about the various AGS Shows we have been to this spring on my Kent Diary on the AGS website - especially at Rosemoor and Sutton Valence:
'THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING AND I MUST GO' (John Muir).
The quiet and gentle nature of a 'society of friends', inspired by visiting the East Anglia AGS Show at Wymondham yesterday... and a look back to 80 years ago...
(In 1935 the Society had some 1200 members of which only 4% exhibited plants, though then as now reports on these formed one of the strongest features of the Bulletins. Then as now there was always the plea for new people to become involved in showing plants leading to this rather nice spur from the Editor, F. H. Fisher:-
"There is a tendency for members to regard the Shows as set meals served by a few expert chefs rather than as bottle parties, or an Irish fight, to which all are welcome."
The idea of an AGS Show having the attributes of a 'bottle party' or 'Irish fight', though, is hard to imagine. By contrast the Plant Sales often involve a lot of elbows! Later Fisher wrote:-
"One criticism frequently levelled at the AGS Shows is that the same plants are brought up time after time. Naturally amateurs are limited in the quantity of plants they can grow, and it is up to the hitherto non-competing members to remedy this defect, if defect it is, by knocking out the old stagers with something new and strange.")
'Expert chefs' must have always led the way, along with the judges who enjoy the meal. So what do us other 96% do?
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Thank you Tim.
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Going by the lack of both information and pictures on our pages no-one is interested in the East Anglia AGS Show.
It was a very interesting show with some spectacular plants but sadly I had to work that day so only managed to catch the tail end and didn't have my camera. But I was very interested/impressed!
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Jon Evans' report on the Wimborne AGS show from Sat. 27th May -
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Wimborne+Show+th+May+/20338/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Wimborne+Show+th+May+/20338/)