Kincardine Show 25th March 2017

[Maggi Young]

 This show still tends to be known as the "Stirling" show, in spite of having been held in venues outside Stirling for many years!  It is, however, the Stirling Group of the SRGC which hosts it - for the last few years this has been held in the Kincardine Community Centre at  Anderson Lane, Kincardine FK10 4SF

This year's date - Saturday 25th March  - Show Secretary Sam Sutherland and his  Team will be delighted to welcome all exhibitors and  visitors.



Nurseries attending will be  Ardfearn, Hartside and Rumbling Bridge - these photos are from Rumbling Bridge today.

 

And at Ardfearn  a bumblebee is  enjoying  a Saxifraga Hindhead seedling

[fermi de Sousa]

 
*sigh*
It's wonderful to see such well grown stock for the rock-garden but heartbreaking to know we have no access to such bounty!
 
cheers
fermi

[Stan da Prato]

 The snap was  requested  for another  website. Most of these are likely to  go to Kincardine- apart from the succulents - if they  will fit into the car along with one or two   others.

[Maggi Young]

A bit of a surprise for Neil & Sue Huntley - " waking up to the snow this morning at Hartside Nursery -- hope it goes soon - got to sort plants out for SRGC Show at Kincardine on Saturday"

A snow shock even for "Plants with Altitude"!!

[Maggi Young]

Good luck to all attending for a great show on Saturday.
 
The  SRGC site is undergoing updates and attachments to forum posts are disabled at the moment- also  the forum will be offline altogether tomorrow for more work.   We hope this will not be for too long.

 There are  notices  to this effect  in   the General area of the forum and in the Notice Board section.

 All back to normal now- Fred Admin got Forum all sorted overnight  !
 

[Maggi Young]

Forum back to normal, thanks to Fred!
These  pictures of the RBGE plants in preparation for the show  from a Tweet by Richard Ian Brown of  RBGE.
The RBGE  Alpine Dept.  will mount a display tomorrow at Kincardine -

[Matt T]

Oh my goodness! That pot of N. x susannae is super!!   

[Maggi Young]

It's what caught my eye, too.  Just the most gorgeous of  wee daffs, really!

[Matt T]

My desert island daff! But so hard to get hold of. When my triandrus deigns to flower (still waiting ) I'll follow the BDs lead and recreate the cross.

[Maggi Young]

Alan Gardner was taking this Cypripedium formosanum to the SRGC Show at SRGC KincardineCommunityCentre today -
he intends to plant it out in his garden later.

 

[Maggi Young]

Peter Moore  took six plants to the show  in Section II   & was awarded 3 Firsts - well done!


Sempervivum Granada


Saxifraga x biasolettii


Pinus strobus

[Maggi Young]

From Julia Corden at Kincardine Show ....

Professional Forrest Medal for this beautiful Narcissus x munozii - garmendiae shown in the RBGE display 

 You'll see the RBGE are calling is Narcissus x munozii - garmendiae but most of us are now calling this stunner  Narcissus x susannae



RBGE display with Carolyn McNab, the SRGC secretary

[Maggi Young]

Photo from Alan Gardner of a very fine pot of Narcissus obesus  grown by David Millward ( "Dr Rock" ) which was awarded the Forrest Medal for the most meritorious plant in the show at Kincardine today....  and which also won the Ben Ledi Trophy for best European plant and was awarded a Cultural Commendation from the Joint Rock Committee -  quite the hat-trick!!
 

[Stan da Prato]

 A quick summary of the trophy winners. David's very fine  Narcissus  bulbs were the Lee Martin form  given  to him by Bill Robinson who won a Forrest medal  with a similar pot at a previous  Edinburgh  show

[Stan da Prato]

Alan Gardner did well in section 2