Gardening Scotland 2014

[Stan da Prato]

Graham's family visited on Friday and enjoyed the stand their dad had done so much to create.

.....now some nurseries today............Binny, Macplants and Rumbling Bridge

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a walk round the Kevock stand which won the Alf Evans award

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Hartside, Amand, Harperley Hall and Darcy & Everest

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The candidates for the Best New Plant Award were lined up on the Caley stand  including  a primula from Rumbling Bridge and a white Corydalis from Ian Christie. However more attention seemed to be paid to some strange goings on at another side of the stand.

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as you enter the floral hall you see the Ryder Cup themed garden  from Perthshire, the Dunfermline Robert the Bruce garden then the  very popular joint stand by Fife and SW in Bloom celebrating  50 years of the In Bloom campaign.

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some of the fine plants shown  by specialist nurseries and societies

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks Maggi for putting this together and to Stan for the latest set of pics, a real treat for those of us who could not be there

[Richard Green]

Great photos Stan, and it is surpising how much more you see when looking at the photos than you do in the hubub of the Hall.  It is good to see that there is plenty of interest in our stand again today.  When I was there on Friday the packets of seeds were flying off the stand - as were the membership leaflets.

[ChrisB]

Good news Richard, just the boost we need!

[Steve Garvie]

I thoroughly enjoyed Gardening Scotland today and was particularly impressed by the SRGC stand -congratulations to all involved for such a breath-taking display.

[Tim Ingram]

I missed going to Chelsea and now I can see how much I missed not coming to Gardening Scotland! The alpine displays are just brilliant; if we can find the wherewithal and energy we must try and do something similar with different plants down here in Kent - but how do you compete with all those meconopsis, primulas and celmisias? Let alone Jaques Amand's Cypripediums?

[Stan da Prato]

You have answered your question in the last line of your post................Mediterranean plants ...  dryland alpines ..ie  what grows well  in your area -incidentally in East Lothian and other east coast parts we have very low rainfall and it is too dry for many plants thought of as Scottish specialities.

[brianw]

On Beechgrove they showed a "New Zealand" plants garden/stand. What were the Eremurus/Asphodel like plants, or was it New Zealand grown plants?

[Steve Garvie]

On Beechgrove they showed a "New Zealand" plants garden/stand. What were the Eremurus/Asphodel like plants, or was it New Zealand grown plants?

I think this was Binny Plants' New Zealand themed garden. There were however Eremurus in the display as well as Bulbinella hookeri (sometimes called the Maori Onion).

[Tony Willis]

It was an excellent show with wonderful displays of primula on many stands and an equally good one by the meconopsis group.

As to the New Zealand plants on the TV I think this was just the camera angle that brought in the eremurus which were lovely specimens on Binny Plants display.