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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Stan da Prato on May 16, 2024, 06:58:48 PM
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A small group consisting of Alison Hogg. Ian and Ann Christie, Jeanie Jones and myself will bring plants to set up a one metre square pallet garden on Thursday 30th May so the club has a presence at the two day show on Friday 31st and Saturdary 1st June. It will be based on the well known fishbox troughs two of which have been prepared by Wattie Russell. One trough will feature alpines in flower that like sunny conditions.The other will have shade loving plants including miniature ferns and hostas. There will be stone strata, logs and moss, not shown in the mock up. Different plants will be at the show. There will be taller plants, probably meconopis, celmisias and taller primulas at the sides and behind the troughs plus an info board.
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Excellent news, Stan et al - good for you folks making this effort! 8)
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Alison has prepared the info board to accompany the display.
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Helping to build garden for SRGC: Alison, Lynda, Stan, and Ian Christie:
1 srgc sign
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3 'What do you think?' asks Lynda Crouch of ian Christie ( behind the camera).
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4 early appreciation of the plants
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5 work continues
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Scone Palace Flower show display by SRGC - Many thanks to all who helped. Photos by Ian C.
important pause for fuel = cake!
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coming long well
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nearly done!
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finished item! Lovely!!
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A few more snaps. The troughs part planted plus Jeanie Jones's primulas in the van. The troughs in position mounted on upturned pots. Ian's plants for the back. the peacock butterfly liked the celmisias - larger peacocks noisily roam the grounds.
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Adding taller plants to the back and sides. The info board in place.
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The pallet complete. I should have taken some close ups to show the diversity of plants -approx 60 different species /cultivars. We have labled them which some may find a bit obtrusive but it lets the public know what they are.
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From Ian Christie: " Gold Medal Today at Scone for our display thanks to all"
Tremendous result- well done by you clever folks!!!
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Any chance of a plant list for the shade plant display (trough plus side plants)? I'm wishing I'd put in a request for a close-up photo as the longer distance shots look good and I was intrigued as soon as I read about it. We don't see nearly as many planting designs for shady troughs or crevice gardens as we do for sunny ones and they're much more likely to work for people with small urban gardens, so I'm glad this was included in the display.
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Shade trough with Hostas Toy Soldier, Mouse Ears, Stilleto, Gold Standard, Elfin, Epimedium Little Shrimp, ferns Polystichum proliferum Herrenhausen. Setiferum. Some floral color from Ajuga reptans, Galium odoratum, Chiastophyllum oppositifolium, Saxifraga urbium. [attachimg=1]
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Sisyrinchium California Skies, Physoplexis comosa[attachimg=3]
Rhodohypoxis Mars and The Bride. Saxifraga Whitehills. [attachimg=4]
At the side Cypripedium reginae [attachimg=5]
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At the back Prmula prolifera, Meconopsis Huntfield, Ascreavie, Celmisia coriacea [attachimg=1]
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Primuala flaccida and P munroi [attachimg=4]
more primulas - P pulverulenta, beesiana, bullleyana, alpicola, secundiflora, heucherifolia were all there somewhere [attachimg=5]
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and the medal
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Congratulations to everyone involved. A thoroughly deserved outcome.
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Many thanks for the additional photos and the plant lists. I thought I had a good knowledge of the sort of plants one might use in a shady trough, but Chiastophyllum oppositifolium was new to me. It's always interesting to see how other people approach a particular garden niche. Really helpful for comparison purposes to have so many different primulas assembled togther too.