SRGC Summer Event- Dunblane 17th August 2013

[Maggi Young]

SRGC SUMMER MEETING  - Flowers of the Hills and Mountains -

Dunblane, 17th August 10.00am to 4.00pm

Show Secretary   Sandy Leven, 2, Leighton Court, Dunblane FK15 0ED
Tel 01786 824064   sandy.leven@btinternet.com   (and see Show Schedule)
Venue :    Dunblane Christian Fellowship Hall, Station Road, Dunblane
Location Opposite the railway station
Staging   8.30am till 10.00 am on Saturday 18 th August

A summer event to celebrate rock gardening.


This new event celebrates both the fact that the SRGC is a garden club and the plants which members grow.
It will illustrate and the beauty, diversity and garden worthiness of thewidest range of rock and woodland garden plants, bulbs, shrubs and trees, to encourage their cultivation in gardens and to encourage th exchange of plants and knowledge among gardeners.

The display is not intended to be floral art.

'Flowers of the Hills and Mountains'


The event comprises -   
-short talks on 'My Garden'  [c 30 min each ]

Graeme Strachan, Aberdeen
•
Anton Edwards, Caputh
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George Watt, Ayrshire
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In these short talks these enthusiasts describe the development of their beautiful gardens and some of the plants which they grow and propagate.

There will also be a plant display, plant sales and a seedling and plant exchange.   

All welcome!!

[shelagh]

What an absolutely terrific day we had in Dunblane on Saturday. Many thanks to Sandy for organising and to the especially hard working kitchen staff and plant salesmen and women.  All day tea/coffee and biscuits for £2 a person (who said the Scots had a reputation for being careful with their money) plus a very interesting selection of display plants and 3 'My Garden' talks which left us exhausted just seeing and hearing the work that had gone into them.

Make sure you put next year's date in your diary you won't regret it. They make us southerners very welcome.

[Maggi Young]

Crumbs Shelagh, are you and Brian "Southerners" - how come no-one noticed? We just thought you were loyal members...... 

[shelagh]

Well I took a few pictures. Glassford seemed to be doing a great job covering everything, but I'll just put mine up to be going on with.

There were a few exhibits I was immediately drawn to because they came with their own Gin bottle and there was a terrific collection of Clematis show by Sue Simpson but I only got a few of them.

    Allium with gin accompaniment.JPG
    Androcymbium striatum.JPG
    Arenaria alvacariense.JPG
    Asplenium trichomanes incisum.JPG
    Clematis exhibit.JPG

[shelagh]

More Clematis and a Codonopsis convolvulacea with info.  Unfortunately lots of people didn't put their names on their plants.

There were a couple of Eucryphia's which are a wonderful shrub for late flowering and one of my favourites. This one was very tiny but I'm afraid I forgot to get it's name.

[shelagh]

A larger Eucyphia though still in a pot.  Some more excellent Gin (Oh I'm sorry were there plants in there).  Ophiopogon p. n. which John Dower described as a plant for all seasons after he got 3 firsts for it in foliage, flower and berry a few seasons ago.

Also a wonderful fern.

    Eucryphia penwith(2).JPG
    more good gin.JPG
    no name but good gin.JPG
    Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens.JPG
    Polystichum setiferum plumosum densum.JPG

[shelagh]

A Sedum from North Africa which had some people begging for an Irishmans cutting, and a wonderful Symphandra/Campanula which makes a terrific garden plant.

If everyone who attended had brought 5 plants then the tables would have been groaning.  A really good day though.

    Sedum brevifolium induratum
    Symphandra zagezura

[Maggi Young]

I must have lead a very sheltered life - I had no idea all these variations on Gin existed.....

I do think the chance to show off  the cut  flowers is great fun.  I do like the little clematis and the tiny Eucryphia is a  beauty.