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Specific Families and Genera => Saxifraga => Topic started by: Maggi Young on October 22, 2017, 02:09:57 PM
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These two pictures of the Saxifrga Society display a the recent Kent AGS show are from nurseryman Rob Potterton (http://www.pottertons.co.uk) - who was impressed with the effect. Photos on the display itself were from master photographer Jon Evans.
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Tim Ingram suggested that an "advert " for the society was a good addition and supplied this - I agree!
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http://saxifraga.org (http://saxifraga.org)
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This photo is from Adrian Young of the sales table of the Saxes at Sutton Valence .... with David Hoare and Tony Hale
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Another few pix pinched from Adrian Young of the Sax. display- first are these two of photos by Jon Evans....
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And this is of some of David Hoare's display plants
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My mistake - the display was certainly by those connected with the Saxifraga Society, hence the Sax. Society infor shown but it was more correctly "The Saxifraga Hub" to promote Saxes -
as David Hoare explains.......
" This display (The Sax Hub) was put together by myself with help from Tony Hale & Adrian Young. with photos from John Evans.It was not a Saxifrage Society display. Being Saxifrage Society members we had information on the Society and books for sale.
Rob Potterton: Apologies David, my mistake, although your statement leaves me somewhat confused. What is The Sax Hub??
David Hoare :The first show at Sutton Valence I did not have a job to do ( After 13 years of Show Sec') So the next show I put on a display of Sax's to keep me out of mischief and I called it the Sax Hub ( Hub being the in word) ie transport hub.
Rob Potterton: We discussed this on Saturday, but from what I could see on display and literature it does at least to me appear to be promoting the Saxifraga Society.
Adrian Young: We were promoting Saxifraga, many people do not want to join Societies . We were offering some unusual plants (out of flower) which went pretty well."
A worthwhile exercise in promoting the plants, anyway!