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Re: Gardening Scotland 2016
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Bravo everyone!
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Chris Boulby
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This morning the joint rock lot met in the hall starting at the club stand then on to Kevock
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some other nurseries
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What were the Joint Rock lot doing? From what has been explained to me before (ad nauseum) they are about awards to individual plants. Since this wasn't a show about individual plants but a show about display of collective plants and the design of their environment at the show.
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David Nicholson
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June 04, 2016, 08:41:47 PM »
The Joint Rockers are looking to see if any individual plants on any of the stands are worthy of award or further trials ....- people had submitted plant names to the committee for consideration and instead of looking at the plants in a pot (carted to them in a room somewhere, away from the show bench) they go to the stands andlook at the plants in situ.
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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June 04, 2016, 08:45:21 PM »
Good to learn today that Hartside won Gold and J.Amand silver gilt.
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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June 04, 2016, 09:11:18 PM »
Well done team. Really lovely display. Not long back, had a nice day out a managed to buy a few more plants. Where I will find space to plant them I don't know .
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David
On a slightly different tack, I have been to many shows to find certain plants have been removed for "consideration" by JRC and despite hanging about for an hour and a half, have never appeared back on the bench when I have been there. The only time I may get to see them is if they are later posted on the Forum.
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Tom Cameron
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The morning after the show before.
At close of show yesterday an energetic group dismantled the stand and bagged up all the bark and gravel. This morning Liz, Rob and self met up in the no longer Floral hall, Liz to take away the plants we had bought in for eventual sale, Rob and I to take the materials back to the club hut at Binny Plants. Adding the crevice garden has inevitably meant even more stone to shift! We finally left the show ground at 1pm.
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June 07, 2016, 05:43:40 PM »
Well it's all done and dusted, and as one of back-room boys I would like to pass on my compliments to the front of show staff, particularly Stan, Liz, Peggy, Ian Christie and Sam - I'm sure there are others that I should mention
. It's a team that achieves without really any order from the 'heady'.
Stan de Prato is the manager par eminence - always there, but never seeming to issue an instruction (I did have 'order' there, but that's certainly not Stan). The hours he has put in are well beyond just duty. I did a bit on the woodwork front this year for the lower crevice bed and the stream bank; straightforward enough joinery, but I didn't really have the confidence that what was in my mind was plantable so Stan was dragged across from East Lothian a number of times to pat me on the head and say yes that's going well ! Thanks Stan.
I'm not sure that the final crevice thing was quite what I'd hope for - yes it was good enough for the judges, but the interface to the grass bank was not good, and if someone could produce the lovely cerise primula hirsuta next year for the grass bank, some gentiana verna and some soldanellas that would be really good. I've photos of these in the high alpine meadows from a trip to the Italian Alps at this time of year. Unfortunately I don't have anything that shows how the screes blend in with the meadows so that's a guessing game.
I've just found a picture on Google of soldanellas coming through snow - can we do a snow-field next year please ?
Rob
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Rob Graham, Edinburgh
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Quote from: robg on June 07, 2016, 05:43:40 PM
- can we do a snow-field next year please ?
Thanks Rob - just keep taking the tablets. There will be a post show meeting soon about the future as not everyone who helped so much this year will be able to do so again.
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June 08, 2016, 03:28:12 PM »
SRGC's Gardening Scotland Gang have excelled themselves - yet again. what stars - we are so lucky to have such members.
Thanks to Rob for taking the time to mention the extent of Stan's role - of course those of us who rely on his superb show reports are already much in his debt.
Just thinking - if you were to be short of help next year, a snow-field might be the perfect answer - thick layer of snow - couple of rocks sticking out, three small plant at the edge - sorted- sounds like a low-maintenance solution!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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June 08, 2016, 09:20:47 PM »
A Big Thank You to all the Club members who helped make our Gardening Scotland display the best in recent years. Here's a list of everyone involved – and my sincerest apologies if I've missed anyone out.
Suppliers of Plants: Stan da Prato, Ian Christie, Sue Simpson & George Watt, Sheila & Neil McNulty, Cyril Lafong, Sam Sutherland, Alan Gardner, Sandy Leven, Jean Wyllie, Liz Mills, David Millward, Richard Green, Peggy Anderson, Anne Chambers, Ardfearn Nursery, Rumbling Bridge Nursery, Macplants.
Suppliers of Seeds: SRGC surplus seed beautifully packaged by Ian Pryde, Ian Christie
Building the Stand: Stan da Prato, Ian Christie, Rob Graham, Peggy Anderson, Sam Sutherland, Richard Green, Trina Rogerson. Chief 'Titivators' on Thursday: Peggy Anderson, Alan Gardner, Ian Bainbridge.
Manning the Stand (promoting the Club to the public attending the Show, giving information about the plants and their cultivation, selling lots of seeds): Jackie Thomlinson, Helen Donald, Anne Bush, Liz Mills, Richard Green, Ian Bainbridge, Alan Gardner, Ann & Ian Christie, Maureen Wilson, Ann Steele, Ken East, Peggy Anderson, Linda & Sam Sutherland, Rob Graham, George Watt
Display Supremo: Stan da Prato
Administration: Liz Mills
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