Are you a Scottish Rock Garden Club Member?

[art600]

As one Membership Secretary to another - well done Graham 

[Otto Fauser]

When visiting Jack Drake's nursery in april 1961 -on a bus trip that was part of the International Rockgarden in London and Edinburgh ,I stood in awe admiring so many rare and beautyful cool climate plants -not seen in australian gardens .So I just had to join the
 S.R.G.C. then ( the A.G.S. in 1959) which has given me so much joy and knowledge over so many years - I eagerly await "The Rockgarden" twice a year , which seems to be getting better from year to year .
     many thanks to Everyone in the S.R.G.C.

[ichristie]

Hi to all, i would like to add my sincere thanks to Graham, we worked very well togehter when I was President and I can assure you we would not have the new on-line membership  payments without the considerable contribution from Graham. Ann and I hardly had a week without contact (still do) Graham was and is very much on the ball so well done,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Three hurrays of Graham from accross the North Sea !
Thanks for all the hard work !! 

[Maggi Young]

Hi to all, i would like to add my sincere thanks to Graham, we worked very well together when I was President and I can assure you we would not have the new on-line membership  payments without the considerable contribution from Graham. Ann and I hardly had a week without contact (still do) Graham was and is very much on the ball so well done,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

Thanks, Ian: you and Ann are in a good position to know just hoew important Graham's work is.

Ann, who has been SRGC Treasurer for the last several years, stepping quickly into a breach to keep all working smoothly, is another of those quiet folk, working tirelessly for the Club, without whom the SRGC could not exist. She and Graham are without doubt the two major players in the team, these two positions are the busiest in the Club......the two of them are worth the pay of Rooney and Ronaldo, for sure !!

[Liz Mills]

I'd certainly add my appreciation for all the unseen (but not unnoticed) work that is done throughout the year by both Graham Bunkall and Ann Christie.  But I'd also add one or two other people to the list of those that the Club couldn't do without - Ian Christie for an enormous amount of work over the past three years; Maggi, Ian and Fred who you all know;  Anton Edwards, editor of The Journal;  Carol Shaw, our Secretary;  the Seed Exchange team with the main players being Stuart Pawley, Ian Pryde, Alan Hayes and the Bainbridges (Carole and Ian);  our Show Secretaries - I could go on and on.  But what marks out all of the people who make our Club what it is, is a generosity of spirit.  They're people who realise that the more you give in life, the more you receive.  But I think all you active Forum members already know this.

[Nick_the_grief]

Ok Ok you've shamed me  ... Just joined   

And it's cheaper than some clubs ... Maybe I'm scottish too

[Maggi Young]

Well Nick, if there's anyone in your family who looks a bit like this.....

 then you can probably claim good Scots blood... great  to have you join the SRGC....
 live long and prosper as  Mr McSpock said.  

[Nick_the_grief]

hey, thats the wife 

[Maggi Young]

hey, thats the wife 

Congratulations.... a very fine looking woman... you're a lucky chap..... so you were right about the Scots' connection then? 

[Nick_the_grief]

Seriousy, The nearest I know we are to scotland is Yorkshire (hence the carefulness  ) but there is some Celt in make up somewhere as my mum, 2 sisters and both my Kids have a fine head of red hair ... mines mouse brown/grey 

I've a feeling I was a member when I was about 10 (long time ago)as I remember sending for some seeds, or got some seeds, when I joined. and the only one that didn't grow was Mecanopsis (himalayan blue) the rest grew and I had a lovely rock garden , albeit the "rock" was the concrete re-enforcing from an old garden air raid shelter!  but you couldn't see that after a while because of the plants!

[Paul T]

Nick,

Well I'm half Scottish (one grandparent on each side of my family was Scottish) so that means I probably have enough to spare you some as a loan for a while.  But I do want it back at some point. 

And good use of recycling of the old air raid shelter, by the way. 

[daveyp1970]

Half Scottish here as well all my Dads family are from Fife,so had to join,i spent some fantastic times in East Wemyss as kid.

[David Nicholson]

Half Scottish here as well all my Dads family are from Fife,so had to join,i spent some fantastic times in East Wemyss as kid.

Well that answers everything then. Only someone with an inherited reluctance to appreciate good football could be a Forest supporter

[Paddy Tobin]

Boom, Boom.

David 1. DaveyP 0

Paddy