Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: mark smyth on April 03, 2009, 12:32:58 PM
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April 25th in Greenmount College
4 miles from Belfast International Airport and 20 miles from Belfast City Airport.
Ryanair has a seat sale on now ending on Tueday. All flights in to the city airport are £24 no taxes but including the scandelous £8 booking fee. If you get the first flight in I could collect a few people
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Sorely tempted Mark, it would be good to see beautiful Belfast again but I refuse to fly Ryanair whatever the price. You are allowed to have extreme views when you get your pension, it's part of the package ;D
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Mark, were you down at the Dublin Show today?
That's a kind offer for the Belfast Show........ I'll be staying home with Lily, but Ian's looking forward to coming across.
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Dublin show was the best in a long time with some stunning plants. I'll ask Jim Almond to give me some photos to post.
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I am just back from Belfast after spending a great weekend at the 70th Ulster Group Show at Greenmount College as well as seeing a few gardens.
I am posting the pictures just now and will come back and add the names as time permits.
The order is just how I took them and there is a mixture of plants and people.
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Next batch
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Many have the plant name visible in the picture.
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Next ten.
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Ten more
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Serious Judging takes place.
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More plants
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The Trophies are brought out and people gather.
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Prize giving starts.
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The prize giving continues and then people start to pack up their plants
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Exhibitors wound their way back to their cars past a blue snake in the grass.
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The sun has come out so that is it for now as I am off to the garden.
I will try and add some names over the next few days but you should get a flavour of the quality of the show.
Well done and a big thank you to all who took part and hosted us so well - another very successful AGS Show.
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Thanks very much Ian !
Congratulations everyone involved - marvelous plants !
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Well, we had a superb time at the Ulster group show and as Ian has posted so many pictures of the plants I will add some pictures taken at the Giants causway, Ann and I spent a day looking around on Momday super weather and such an interesting place.
We all had a super 70th dinner at Stormont the Ulster assembly building very impressive indeed, the hospitality given to all the visitors was just so good we owe them a huge thank you. I will post some pictures from the dinner later, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Great sets of photographs from both Ians. Many thanks. Lovely to see some familiar faces.
Paddy
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Looks like you had a great day Ian C. It was great to spend a couple of days with the two Ians.
Who is the guy in P4252251.JPG? I havent seen him before ;D
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What an excellent show it seems to have been. Thanks to exhibitors and thanks Ian for the pics. 8)
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Who is the guy in P4252251.JPG? I havent seen him before
Come on Mark with such a smooth complexion and a hair do like that you must look in a mirror sometimes.
::) ::) ::)
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To both Ian's many thanks for posting show pictures and the very impressive landscape pictures of the Giants causway.
Never heard of this place before.
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Hi again everyone, I post tonight quite a few pictures taken by Liam McCaughey and I am very grateful to him for allowing us to use these pictures. I am sorry but i just do not have time to add names but this was a very special evening to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Ulster group. I will post in 3 sets, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Next 10 Christie.
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A great occasion for the Ulster Group. Beautiful venue for their celebrations. Do you know where it is?
Who's the chap with the bow tie, looking very smart, close to the speaker in some of the photographs. Doesn't look like one of the Ulster group at all.
Paddy
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Next 10 again Christie.
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Ian,
Please allow me to interject and add: for many years we here in the south of Ireland did not travel to the North as we would have been in genuine fear for our safety. However, within the last ten years the situation has changed tremendously and we can now enjoy the many lovely gardens in the area. Most significantly, on our visits to the North we have always been greeted with the warmest of welcomes and have returned many times since. I recall being in Londonderry about ten years ago on an outing with the Irish Garden Plant Society. The programme for the Sunday afternoon did not appeal to Mary and I so I, very boldly I know, telephoned Bob Gordon, whom I had never met and who did not know me, and asked him if we could come and visit his garden. Of course, we were very welcome and have been in touch with Bob ever since. Likewise, I see Harold McBride in some of the photographs. Again, Harold welcomed us into his garden in similar circumstances and we have kept in touch since. And there is Susan Tindall and ... and... and ...
So, maybe the SRGC is the welcoming Alpine Society but it has an excellent companion group in Northern Ireland where the welcome is always the warmest.
Many thanks for the photographs, enjoyed them very much.
Paddy
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Ah, I spot from the later photographs that the celebrations were held at Stormont.
Paddy
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Yes, Paddy, the Ulster Group has many happy connections with the SRGC and it was a delight for those Scots who were able to travel across to join the celebrations.... I know of several who were sorry not to go..... :'(
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Re the gentleman with the bow tie. I wondered if he also had little bows - or perhaps pretty drawstrings - in his socks. ;D
I was also very impressed by the presence of 3 wine glasses at each table settings. Obviously a jolly good dinner. :P
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Re the gentleman with the bow tie. I wondered if he also had little bows - or perhaps pretty drawstrings - in his socks. ;D
I have it on good authority that the socks were (non matching) multi striped ::)
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Ah... bowing to the ground at his feet were you Maggi or just saw them laid out on the bed as he packed them?
I see this is my 5000th post (good God!) so will make a cake today and try to live up to my avatar name.
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Congratulations Lesley !! ;D ;D
Many thanks to all for the pictures from the Ulster Show ! !!!!!
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Ah... bowing to the ground at his feet were you Maggi or just saw them laid out on the bed as he packed them?
I see this is my 5000th post (good God!) so will make a cake today and try to live up to my avatar name.
They were in the washing left out for me when he came home, Lesley!!
Happy 5000th.....hope the cake is delicious ! :-*