Harlow Carr Alpine Event 14-15 October 2017

[Maggi Young]

Now in it’s third year, the Alpine Weekend at Harlow Carr will showcase the best variety of these hardy plants in association with the Alpine Garden Society. This is a perfect opportunity to pick up interesting varieties and get advice from a host of UK alpine plant growers along with joining a tour of the Harlow Carr Alpine House each day at 11am.

Saturday 14 October - National Autumn Alpine Show
A collection of Alpine plants on show from the AGS

The following nurseries will attend on Saturday:
Hartside Nursery Garden, Cumbria
Edrom Nursery and Gardens, Berwick
Aberconwy Nursery, Conwy
Pottertons Nursery., Lincoln
Sandham Lightweight Troughs, Derby
Laneside Alpines and Orchids, Preston.
Alpine Garden Society Members' plant stall



Sunday 15 October - Local Autumn Alpine Show.
A collection of Alpine plants on show from the West Yorkshire Alpine Group

The following nurseries will attend on Sunday:
Hartside Nursery, Cumbria
AGS West Yorkshire group members plant stall.


https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/harlow-carr/viewevent?EFID=338&ESRC=CMS

[ian mcdonald]

Maybe they should invite Monty Don as he seems to have forgotten what alpine plants are?

[Tim Ingram]

More usefully perhaps, Ian, someone should write a piece about the alpines at Harlow Carr and this Show for the Yorkshire Post http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle. We don't do this much - try and write articles and promote rock gardening in the local and regional papers, and I think for Gardener's World and Monty Don to notice alpines and rock plants it has to come from a grass roots trend which the horticultural 'establishment' can't ignore. In the present day this probably means relating growing alpines to conservation, environment and Natural History rather more than has been evident in the past, because these issues concern us all, and especially younger people, and the AGS and SRGC more than any other gardening societies come from this way of looking at plants, even if they don't put it across all that effectively. I'm not sure it was an accident that Kevock was invited to the Great Dixter Plant Fair - it is an indication that a change in outlook is happening, even though it all takes time. A couple of years earlier Peter Korn came to Dixter and Fergus Garrett has made a return visit to Sweden. And the way you keep something moving and increasing that momentum is by lots of people getting behind it and doing their own thing to add to the process. On the whole members of the AGS and probably SRGC - with very notable exceptions who will be clear to see - don't personally take on promoting events, writing articles, putting up signs and advertising Shows etc, etc, but the more people who do, the more rock plants and gardening with them will get out into the media.

[Maggi Young]

I expect Kevock's  Gold Medal record  when exhibiting at various show has  brought them to wider notice!