Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Carol Shaw on May 27, 2011, 02:15:52 PM
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Just a reminder that this time next week a team of us will be manning (or peopling to be pc) the Joint Kevock/SRGC stand at Gardening Scotland. If you are going to the event please get in touch if you are willing to help out for an hour or so. You will get to wear an exclusive edition canary yellow sweatshirt and be able to brag to all your friends that you were on the stand. :o ;D
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Those of you who have been delighted by the Chelsea "flower of the year" will be pleased to know that the Scottish nursery of Elizabeth MacGregor will have some plants for slae of this at Gardening Scotland ( and some at Tatton Park, they hope)
Elizabeth MacGregor's Nursery
Ellenbank
Tongland Road
Kirkcudbright
DG6 4UU
Phone: 01557 330620
Email: info@elizabethmacgregornursery.co.uk
Website: http://www.elizabethmacgregornursery.co.uk/
Please note that orders are only sent during March, April and May
Last order date - Saturday May 7th 2011
May 24th ...just announced that our new Anemone 'Wild Swan' has been awarded 'RHS Chelsea 2011 Plant of the Year' Small numbers available this summer at Gardening Scotland and Tatton Park, next year by mail-order.
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Does anyone know what the two parents are? I hope those who had the chance to buy it did.
I want it now ;D Maybe some kind forum member would run to the stand to grab one for me. Maybe I should fly in ;D
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The plant is often refrerred to as Anemone rupicola 'White Swan'
http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/blogs/graham_rice/archive/2011/05/27/anemone-wild-swan-2011-chelsea-new-plant-of-the-year.aspx Graham Rice quotes rupicola as one parent and says the other parent is not sure.
An American nursery with E.M's photos of the plant says:
Anemone “Wild Swan” ™
“Wild Swan” has large 50-75mm (2-3 in.) size flowers held well above the foliage, pure white on the face with strong blue banding on the reverse of the petals. The flowers have a nodding habit early morning and in the evening, so this blue banding characteristic is very showy. The flowers open outward facing during the day. Flowering starts late April to June and produced continuously until late autumn or frosts.
“Wild Swan” plant occurred in a planned seedling program in a batch of Anemone seedlings. It was obvious at an early stage that it was a hybrid with much more vigor and much larger than its seed parent. Anemone “Wild Swan”™ flowers extremely long and would be a spectacular feature in a herbaceous border, and also makes an excellent container plant. This plant is sterile, a tissue culture essential, roots well from cuttings but little cutting material is produced and division is only possible after 3 to 4 years.
Color: Pure white face, white with about 42% violet-blue bars on reverse Foliage color: green
Foliage height 40-45 cm or 16-18 in
Flower height 50-60cm or 20-24 in
Color: White with violet-blue
Blooming Season: Late Spring continuous to Fall
Mature Height: .5 -.6 m (20-24 in)
As well as E. M's nursery, and Hardy's garden Plants who took it to Chelsea, it is also available from http://www.hayloft-plants.co.uk/anemone/wild-swan-3-young-plants/prod5345.html
£22.50 !!
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Thanks Maggi.
I looked at airfares - too tempting to fly in for the day
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So we will see you at GS next weekend Mark?
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I'll have to give it some good thought this evening. Malvern is also a possibility
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Doesn't Ryanair fly there? I can go to London from home for less than 20£ on a lucky day (the train from Stansted is more expensive I believe) ;D
'White Swan' is not unlike this one from my garden:
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Ryanair huffed and pulled out of N Ireland
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How annoying :'(
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Reminder to anyone who is visiting GS, especially those who will be on the stand. Bring your own bottled water with you... you can buy a whole pack of half litre bottles in your local supermarket for less than you will pay for one bottle on site and the water in the big cow byre is not for drinking!
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List of nurseries showing in the Floral Hall. It does seem less than last year indeed checking through records there were over 80 nurseries in 2001 (notable absentees now include Christies, Ingwersen, Lincluden, Southfield, Park Green, Glendoick, Edrom, Southwest Carnivorous Plants, Matthewman Sweetpeas, Hippopottering Downderry Lavendars, RV Roger, Foxgrove, Glenedd violets...). Perhaps nurseries are succumbing to the onslaught of the garden centres.
Alan Clark Rhododendrons
Bell Nursery
Binny Plants
Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery
Border Belles
Bowden Hostas
Brookfield Plants
Cairnsmore Nursery
Chrysanthemums Direct
Craig House Cacti
D’Arcy & Everest Alpines
David Stead Orchids
Dibleys Nurseries
Elizabeth Macgregor
Fir Trees Pelargonium Nursery
Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Harperley Hall Farm Nurseries
Harts Nursery
Hartside Nursery Garden - Alpines
Hooksgreen Herbs Ltd
Hoyland Plant Centre
Jacques Amand International
JBA Seed Potatoes
Just Airplants (Shamac Ltd)
Kevock Garden Plants - Alpines
Letham Plants
Macplants
Mainshill Plants
Oaktree Nursery
Pheasant Acre
Philip Tivey & Son
Plantagogo/Jubilee Cottage Nurseries
Primrose Bank Nurseries
Priorswood Clematis
Proudplants
Roualeyn Nursery
Southern Skies
Taylor’s Clematis
Tinnisburn Plants
Two Plants
Wattston Bonsai
Woodside Plant Centre
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some snaps from the first stages of setting up of the club/Kevock stand earlier today
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how is the stone attached to the wooden boxes?
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By jove, that looks promising already. 8)
I love the glorious flowering Saxifraga that is almost the same size as Ian Pryde in pic 012 ;D ;D I spotted it off to the mid left in pic001 but it looks even bigger in situ! Fab!!
Hope all the set-up goes well.... well done to all those pitching in to help. Good luck!!
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David & I are heading off shortly with more plants plus five crates of books... Everything is looking good so far and I'm sure the team will have lots more done before we get there.
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some more pictures taken throughout today.
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and the rest taken today
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Absolutely terrific pictures Stan reminded me of all the striving we did at Tatton, the plants and gravel hide all the messy bits. Mind you you always find you've got a wee gap somewhere and the gravel disappears like water down the plug. All part of the fun. ::)
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Thanks, Stan, for posting all these photos. I'm sorry I never got round to looking at them last night for I was still busy making plant labels. But looking at the photos from Day 1 and those of Day 2 just reminds me of how much you and all the others have put in to create the first ever joint display (Scottish Rock Garden Club and Kevock Plants) at Gardening Scotland. When I left about 4.45 today, the display was almost finished and was looking amazingly beautiful. Here's the names of some of the SRGC people who've been working flat out these last 2 days - Stan da Prato of course, Ian Pryde (who's worked for weeks building of the display boxes), Graham Wenham and Al Elliott - ably supported as always buy us women of course - Lesley Scott, Peggy Anderson, Carole Bainbridge and yours truly. And Carol and David Shaw arrived from the North this afternoon to lend a hand.
Directing, designing and organising us all have been Stella and David Rankin from Kevock Plants (and also long time SRGC members) ably assisted by Ian and Corinne. How Stella and David are still able to stand, never mind work and keep us all in order is fantastic considering they just arrived back from Chelsea on Sunday night, fresh from their success in winning a Silver Gilt Award for their display. But they've been unfailingly cheerful, helpful and patient with us all. And we've all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves these last two days. Now, tomorrow, all we've got left to do look forward to is a huge clean and tidy up as well as setting up our promotion/sales tables before the judges arrive. Look forward to seeing the results in Stan's photos tomorrow.
Will tell you all about who supplied some of the stunning plants tomorrow.
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Brilliant, it looks really hard work. Can't wait to see it up close. Well done everyone.
Stan thanks for the preview.
Angie :)
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looks brilliant!
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It is absolutely fascinating to see how the stand is actually fitted together with all those holes for plants and top dressing in between. It clearly displays far more professional skills than just basic DIY - and that's just the stand without even considering the splendid plants themselves ! Well done to everyone.
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I'm regretting not booking a flight :'(
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some from today when only some labels were still to add.
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and a second batch
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some hardy plant nurseries - Macplants; Hartside; Cairnsmore; Amand; Proud Plants; Letham; Binny; Plantagogo; Bowdens hostas & ferns; Eliz. Macgregor
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More wonderful photos, Stan, to give us a real feel for the stand and others in the Floral Hall.
Remember to click on the pictures to enlarge them, Folks!
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Well done, Stan, for your photos really capture the essence of our stand and all the others of our friends at Gardening Scotland. I'd hoped we could get a photo of all the team who worked on staging the display, but two of our stalwarts, Lesley and Al, were back at their day jobs and we thought it wouldn't be right to have a 'team photo' without them.
Stan has been really busy today - I don't know how he found the time to take all these photos. When I arrived he was looking VERY SMART and getting ready, along with Stella Rankin, for his TV interview to be shown on next week's Beechgrove Garden. Then, while the rest of the team were busy titivating the display (tweezers, scissors, brushes, extra plant labels, moss and gravel in hand), Stan was off outside to help his local school create their pallette garden. He did keep coming back to see us and to check that we were naming all his dwarf conifers, shrubs and ferns correctly and I assume that's when he took the photos.
We all left the Hall early today prior to the judges' appearance at 4 o'clock - and when we get back in tomorrow morning, we'll find out what they thought. Fingers crossed.
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I imagined that Stan would be busy, too, with the pallet gardens.... he is a real champion of them... in all senses of the word. The Pallet gardens are one of the features of the show that everyone I've spoken to over the years has really enjoyed, because everyone can have a go.... schools,local garden clubs, I'm sure even the local pub could make an entry... just have to build a garden that fiits into/ onto a size of a standard packaging pallet... which is roughly a metre square, I think.
See this for more http://www.gardeningscotland.com/about/features/pallet-garden-competition/
and I think Ian had some photos on the Forum/Bulb Log from previous years and Stan did too, I'm sure.....
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Oh dear, I couldn't spell pallett right! Sorry, folks, I must have been thinking of Monet and his garden at the time.
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Wonderful display :D... I'm so far away from it ::)
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Well done to all concerned, it looks a really good stand - I hope it gets just reward. Most of all thanks to Stan for all the time taken to share this with us. ;D
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As we could see from Stan's excellent photo report, the stand for Kevock in collaboration with the SRGC was looking very smart indeed... and the Judges agreed!
Kevock in collaboration with the SRGC has won a Gold Medal and the Alf Evans Award for the best commercial alpine exhibit.
Huge congratulations to the Rankins and all the SRGC helpers who have made such a super stand. Well done for your hard work in preparation for the show and for all the efforts many of you willo be puitting in to man the Club stall throughout the event.
Just hope everyone helping out at Ingliston is not melting in the heat.... Scotland seems to be having a two day heat wave.... though we are threatened with only 14 degrees C tomorrow and perhaps rain and fog... oh joy!
Other major show awards were:
"A Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of Poppy Scotland" to highlight the relevance of the Poppy Scheme for Servicemen today won the best floral exhibit and best new floral exhibitor at Gardening Scotland.
"Resistance is Fertile" - Guerilla Gardening- won the best show garden and best new show garden award for Great Gardens Ltd.
Perth Garden Club won the best Floral art display and the Penicuik Garden Club won the "best innovative award" .
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It's been great to be a part of the team for Gardening Scotland and the Gold Medal was the icing on the cake. Our display was next door to the Poppy Scotland exhibit so we could see what a great display it was - well worth the Best in Show Award. I was blown away by the size and beauty of the vegetables that they showed on one side of their huge display - amazing - why can't we grow veg like that in Saline? Fortunately my husband doesn't look at the Forum for this remark would definitely not go down well.
We were all roasted today even inside the Floral Hall - but we met lots of friends and made many new ones. (We = David and Carol Shaw, Graham Wenham, Ian and Carole Bainbridge and myself.) We sold lots of seed - some was surplus seed from the Seed Exchange and some was specially packeted by Ian Christie for the event - Nomocharis aperta, Lilium mackliniae, Lilium monadelphum, Meconopsis baileyii, Meconopsis napaulensis, Codonopsis Grey-wilsonii, Codonopsis Himal Snow, Trillium rivale, Trillium chloropetallum, Ranunculus lyalli and Allium sikkimensis. I went outside and had a look at the pallet (note the correct spelling at long last!) gardens. There must have been at least 30 and they are truly amazing - many are by primary schools and the range of designs that the children come up with is breathtaking.
I know I haven't really told you about the best plants as shown in Stan's photos but if I manage to get home a bit earlier tomorrow night, I will.
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Well done to everyone, what a display and it really deserved its gold medal.
Great show a bit to hot today for me but had plenty of ice-cream to keep me cool ::) ;D
After the show I went to see Graham Catlows garden and what a sight, it also deserved a gold medal. I have never seen so much treasures in one place that I would love to have.
It just finished my day of perfectly. Like Liz says it was the icing on the cake for me :D
Angie :)
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Congratulations from me too. The display was well worth its two awards. I also enjoyed seeing the construction through Stans photos. Have always wondered how it was done. As you walk round it everything fits together so well from Stans dwarf conifers through the meconopsis and primulas to the real alpines. The collaboration must have been so much more difficult than Kevock going it alone not knowing what plants the SRGC members were going to bring and then fitting them in.
Angie - thanks for your kind comments I am pleased you liked it.
Just to let everyone know though - I visited Angies garden last week and thought it was one of the most wonderful gardens I have ever seen. It has been said here before - 'she is far too modest'.
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Hi everyone I visited the show today and had time to look around was lucky to get upstairs and take a picture of the Gold winning stand by Kevock and SRGC picture is through a glass window but shows how good it was, Many congratulations to all, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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I see the Gardening Scotland website now has a list of all competitors with the points they were awarded. Stonebarn who did the Poppy Scotland stand received 93, Binny Plants and one of the bonsai suppliers each received 90 with Kevock/SRGC on 89. All other gold medals were below this.
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Perhaps I should have wielded a camera instead on a scoop at the breakdown! It was amazing to see the stand coming apart in front of my eyes! We all zoned in and grabbed our own plants then set to to help folk like Stan who had a car load or two of ferns and dwarf conifers. You would not believe the amount of 'junk' and 'rubbish' that was used as infill in Ian P's boxes.
On a totally separate note David & I were horrified that all the veg. on the Poppy Stand was thrown into the skip... If it had just been removed and left near the stand with a 'free veg. help yourself' sign most would have gone! I 'rescued' two heads of calabrese and we have just eaten one we're not dead yet!!
We always need willing workers on the stand on the show days please let me know if you can help :D
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Sadly Hardys are not mailing Anemone Wild Swan outside of England, Scotland or Wales :'(
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Carol, that is shockingly wasteful of the Poppy stand's folks to toss the vegetables. I would have thought better of them.
Mark, having seen the plant on Elizabeth MacGregor's stand in tv pictures from Ingliston I think it's not as good as we might have thought... taller and more flimsy.
Have a read on John Grimshaw's blog about how the voting happened at Chelsea... seems the Kevock Saxifraga 'Anneke Hope' a glorious frothy creature like 'Tumbling Waters') got one more vote than the Anemone but the Chairman called for a vote-off between those two and the anemone then got the vote. :-\ :-X
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THanks for the explanation
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None of the pictures that I saw in the media did Wild Swan justice. 'In the Flesh' it is a really nice plant with a well coloured reverse to the petals. I would not think that is available on mail order anywhere at the moment; Elzabeth sold out on Friday morning
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I would say that's a lovely picture David. 8)
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Thanks to everyone involved in organising, staging, supplying plants and manning the publicity stand at this year's Gardening Scotland. It was hard work but great fun - best of all was the team spirit. Although we all worked hard and long, special thanks must go to Stella and David Rankin, the brains behind the display, and to Ian Pryde for the hundreds of hours he spent making the boxes to form the overall structure for housing the plants.
I got home on Sunday night, very tired but very happy. And plans are already afoot for the team to do something at next year's Gardening Scotland. Watch this space! If you would like to be involved next year, please get in touch with me and I'll keep you informed.
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Thanks, Anthony. As nice as I think White Swan is, I would be very disappointed to think that it could possibly be the best plant at Chelsea.
ps. that's me in the avatar pic dressed for the SRGC stand!
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Well done to all on the splendid stand - a credit to yourselves and the club.
We can all bask in the reflected golden glory!
One thing you didn't mention about Stan da Prato's contribution is that he also provided expert gardening advice to all and sundry on the Caledonian Stand during the show.
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ten of the pallets - there were 46 in all. The first five are groups/societies, the second five schools.
North Berwick in Bloom the plants take over the potting shed first/gold
Nether Loriston growers -from Aberdeen - second also gold
Aberdeen RHS Icelandic volcano third silver /gilt
Nairn with their golf swing and a Glasgow college
Schools
First /gold Law PS North Berwick skools out!
Second/gold Kinlochleven PS midges in the garden
then a selection-did not get the names
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and finally the gorilla
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Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society has some more Gardening Scotland related pages on their website....
http://www.rchs.co.uk/
slideshow of "Flora at Gardening Scotland" on that home page plus 24 pix of Gardening Scotland vis this link....
http://www.rchs.co.uk/page7.html#Gardening
http://rchsblog.wordpress.com/
Thoughts and news on behalf of the 'Caley'
And check out this, one of the interesting facets of the Caley.....
http://www.rchsgrowlearn.co.uk/ link to the site for the Caley's 'Grow and Learn' Scheme