LATE BULB DISPLAY AT RBGE 4th September 2010

[Maggi Young]

LATE BULB DISPLAY AT RBGE
4th September 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
SHOW SECRETARY: Barry Caudwell,
Abernyte Farm Cottage, Abernyte, Inchture, Perth, PH14
9ST.
Telephone 01828 686709.

VENUE: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
Pedestrian entrance is through Inverleith row at the old reception next to
where the flag poles are situated.
Coffee at 10.00am
Two Presentations one at 10.30am the other at 2 pm by Prof. Dr. Adil
Güner
From the Nezahat Gökyigit Botanic Garden, a botanic garden in a
motorway intersection in Istanbul Turkey, NGBB.
The Turkish geophyte collection at NGBB
&
Growing Turkish bulbs at NGBB
For more about the garden see the NGBB web site at
http://www.ngbb.gen.tr/
This is a ticket only event, your ticket includes free parking
within the garden, lunch and coffee, as well as a tour of the
new John Hope Gateway and the garden.
Tickets which include a map & directions, will be available
later.....
Members are invited to bring along as many pans of dwarf bulbs and
flowering alpine plants as possible. A single flowering bulb or plant is of
interest to other enthusiasts.
The usual rule of one pan per class per exhibitor will be waived. No prize
money or points will be awarded.
Contributions are invited for a 50:50 plant sale, which will be held to cover
expenses. Please note that no Ericaceae should be brought along for
either the display or the plant sale.

[Lesley Cox]

I'd love to be able to attend some of these events. A bit far to travel though.

Could you please tell me Maggi, for interest's sake, why should no Ericaceae be either displayed or sold when apparently other non-bulbous plants are acceptable?

[Susan Band]

Hi Lesley, I would think although not sure that it is because of disease. I know the botanics are worried about various diseases, you have to walk through a mat when you get there. I don't think it is racist against ericaceae. Maggie would have a word to say about that if it was.
Susan

[Maggi Young]

Lesley, as Susan says, it is fear of disease transmission..... more specifically Sudden Oak Death, I believe.
The perception is that it is Ericaceae which  is the family most at risk from infection with and transfer off the disease (though others are  alos affected) and so this restriction is placed.

[mark smyth]

I want to go!

[angie]

I want to go!

So do I and I am sorry Mark.
Angie

[shelagh]

Maggi does that botanic garden really have an exclamation mark in the middle of it?

[Maggi Young]

Maggi does that botanic garden really have an exclamation mark in the middle of it?

Probably not, Shelagh  ... I think it is a Turkish language character which has not been properly transfered to the forum font. I'll check it out!

Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi is the name of the place

[TheOnionMan]

Probably not, Shelagh  ... I think it is a Turkish language character which has not been properly transfered to the forum font. I'll check it out!

I used Google Translate button on the botanic garden's home page; it comes up with rather amusing mistranslated text.  I pasted in a couple lines that caught my attention:

"All names and Latin scientific names of plants carrying Turkish labels are placed. When you visit here at various times, rare flowers, trees are visible around the spouses and the chicken can relax by watching ducks swimming in the pool."

"The hard northeast wind field, air and noise pollution, water issues such as the various problems in the summer months, although the fight was offered for the benefit of the people developing and increasingly becoming beautiful."

 

[Maggi Young]

Tickets are now ready for this Event  and the map will be ready soon.
Please note that free parking all around the garden is possible on Saturdays and that the day costs £9.50 which includes a  buffet lunch 

[mark smyth]

So you finally got it sorted!

[Maggi Young]

So you finally got it sorted!

Yes, Mark, Ian the Christie kind got on the case!    The RBGE will have tickets later, if folk want to get them from there, but they don't gear up to sell them quite so far in advance.


 RBGE now ready to take requests, I'm told: Tickets which include a map & directions, will be available
from Rachael Brown or Kerstin Price at RBGE on 0131 248
2844, at £9.50

[Darren]

Perhaps I'm being dense (or, rather, denser than usual) but where exactly do we get these tickets which are now available? Is the info somewhere else on the site or are they available from Barry?

[Maggi Young]

Not sure who will have the tickets, Darren.......I was just told that they'd be available at the shows...... I'll try find out in the next few days if you can write to someone to bag some..... but Ian C  is away just now.

I'd suggest an email to Barry meantime!




 RBGE now ready to take enquiries, I 'm lead to believe...: Tickets which include a map & directions, will be available   from Rachael Brown or Kerstin Price at RBGE on 0131 248
2844, at £9.50 or  by post...

Rachael Brown or Kerstin Price
RBGE
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
20A Inverleith Row
Edinburgh
EH3 5LR
United Kingdom

[Darren]

Thanks Maggi!  D.