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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Rob Potterton on April 22, 2012, 10:42:14 AM
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Hello :). On Saturday and Sunday 12 & 13 May Pottertons Nursery is holding its first NGS, gardens open for charity event, 10am to 4pm each day. Admission £3 adults, children free. Excellent refreshments available including home made CAKES :D :D :D served by Potterton juniors!!!! Our local AGS group will be staging a mini show / display. The garden should look at its best feauturing our large and extensively planted rockery, award winning troughs from Harrogate Flower Show, many raised beds including new crevice garden and alpine house display. My mothers garden will also be open. Advice on all alpine gardening matters and plant discussion available. ALL WELCOME, please come along and support Macmillan's, Marie Curie, Help the Hospices and Cross Roads Care.
Pottertons Nursery, Moortown Road, Nettleton, Market Rasen, Lincoln LN7 6HX
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Rob, this sounds a most entertaining event... and for some very good causes.
I wish you fine weather and a great turn-out!
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It sounds like a great day Rob. I hope it is a wonderful success, with good weather of course. That's a beautiful daphne. :)
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Jackie and Lisa have been very busy preparing for this weekends event, good weather is forecast, live music including the Potterton sisters arranged for 2pm on the Saturday and amongst other garden sights is a recreation of our award winning trough display from the recent Harrogate Show.
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I think the phrase you need for this is "something for everyone", Rob :)
Hope the forecast is correct... you deserve a good sunny day.
No wonder you had success with that trough display.. it looks super 8)
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Now that sounds like a winning marketing phrase ..... you're a genius.
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Tee hee! Not exactly original, is it... but apt! ;)
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Rob, what's your nearest airport?
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He lives in Lincolnshire, they haven't got electricity yet :P ;D
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Humberside airport is only a few minutes drive from Pottertons Mark.
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He lives in Lincolnshire, they haven't got electricity yet :P ;D
That's a bit unfair, David.... I've been told they manage quite well by harnessing lightning from the sky..... ;)
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I'm too busy to reply to these derog ... deroger .... sarcastic remarks; however your cards are being marked.
Below rainbow yesterday evening and the growing cake pile:
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Wish we could make it, but these days a drive of that distance is well out of the question. Hope it is as successful as i possibly can be and maybe see you at Southport on the 19th.?
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Tested some of the cake this morning, mmmmmmm, very good.
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I'm too busy to reply to these derog ... deroger .... sarcastic remarks; however your cards are being marked.
I was worried you thought he was talking about where you blow your tyres up Rob :P
Have a great (and profitable) day.
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Saturday morning 9AM, all ready, kids finished their table top flower arrangements, road signs up and the weather is PERFECT.
P.S. Charity event days are not profitable for the nursery David ;)
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Very best of luck for the day Rob - but with the work all of you have put in I am sure it will be a big success.
Where are the kids?? 8)
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Sorry, kids had just run off to Grandma's. Just over 150 visitors on Saturday and with the weather looking good again we hope for lots more today. The most popular plant in the garden yesterday was Polygala calcarea 'Lillet' photographed below. The noisiest event was the band's performance by a group of 11 year old kids including eldest daughter Hannah. Ellie also performed a solo.
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Glad it went well Rob and all the best for a bumper day today.
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Looks like a lot of fun. Told my bro to get down there, hope he did....
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Fab Garden, teas, displays AND live music.... surely doesn't get much better than that ?
Hope there are masses more visitors today and lots of funds raised for those good causes . :)
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Looks as a great event, Rob.
I think it is super, you give this band a stage! Must be great fun.
Lina.
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Mark Childerhouse won a Farrer Medal with Saxifraga pubescens Snowcap at Malvern on Saturday.
Here the plant was on show at Rob & Jackie Pottertons NGS Open Garden Weekend.
Lots of good weather, plenty of coffee & cake for the helpers & lots of very interesting/interested visitors.
A really good two days had by all.
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OMG look at your Polygala calcarea 'Lillet' . I thought mine was brilliant. I'll not be showing mine
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I was just going to say the same as Mark! The Polygala is a wonderful and very long flowering plant. We have opened our garden for the NGS for very many years and nearly always enjoyed it immensely (a few wet days along the way!). I think the cakes go down as well as the plants! Very nice to hear the days went so well - roll on more alpine gardens in the NGS.
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Does Polygala calcarea set seed? The type, I mean, not the cultivar - well that too maybe. It's just that I used to have P. calcarea, a good plant in a limestone trough but it died when the troughs had to be moved and it was someone's bright idea to lift the plants first in case they were damaged on a truck (lorry). I haven't found a plant available in NZ for some years, to replace.
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Hi Lesley,
Some of the Czech collectors list Polygala, not sure if calcarea is there. It is your best bet though.
Susan
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For those who have been following this topic the final count produced a total of 268 adult visitors who raised £804 for NGS charities. Our drink and cake refreshment sales raised a further £432.30 for the Nettleton Village church.
The organisers Jackie and Lisa are shattered but still put in a full shift today - much shopping therapy will be required!!!!
Below some of the plants that drew favourable comment:
FOOTNOTE: The Physoplexis comosa was feautured on the AGS group display is owned by Vernon Hancock
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Well done Rob and team (and band!) If ever I'm in need of a charitable donation I know who I'd ask to organise an event!
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Fantastic amounts, Rob... those Gals did a great job!
That Physoplexis is a cracker... in couple of weeks when the flowers are open it would be a real show winner 8)
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Thanks Susan, I'll keep an eye out, maybe ask them as well. :)
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Congratulations to you and your family / team, Rob. A wonderful thing to do. 8) 8)
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Drooling over the paeony Rob. Love the idea of the Union Jack sink too....