SRGC Events 2013

[Maggi Young]

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SRGC Events 2013

Snowdrop Day 15 February 10am - 4pm - Dunblane

There will be four talks; Chris Brickell and Gerard Oud will share their expertise on growing Galanthus.
Sandy Leven will give a talk on growing Galanthus in pots.
Ian Christie will talk on ‘Recent Scottish finds whilst Susan Band’s talk will be ‘Life after Snowdrops’.
Tickets, £25, for the talks plus lunch can be obtained from Ann Christie 01575 572 977 


Early Bulb Display 16 February - Dunblane

There will be three speakers at the Early Bulb Display this year: Chris Brickell on Colchicums,  John Amand  on Cypripediums and Arisaemas and Margaret Thorne  on The SRGC In Turkey in 2012

Brookfield Prize: One pan crocus grown from seed by the exhibitor. First prize £10 Second £5 Third £3
Full details of this day:  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9921.0


Photographic Exhibition : Explorers Garden Pitlochry 28 March - 3 November   

Photographs of the Arunachal Pradesh, India by Julia Corden


Gardening Scotland Friday 1 - Sunday 3 June
The SRGC is building its own stand again this year. Help is needed in setting up the stand, loaning plants and shrubs and volunteers are needed to be present at the actual event to sell seed, talk to visitors and generally promote the Club.

Meconopsis Day, Harlow Carr - 3 June

Speakers are: Evelyn Stevens,  Andrew Willocks who is in charge of the Meconopsis Trials at Harlow Carr and a practical demo by Ian Christie, sponsored by the SRGC. This programme will be repeated in the after-noon with the exception of Andrew's contribution.
Guided tours of the Harlow Carr Alpine House and the Meconopsis Trial will be available morning and afternoon.
The charge is £20 for RHS members, £25 for non-members and booking is through RHS membership services on 0845 612 1253.


The SRGC 80th Birthday Party 

2013 is the 80th anniversary of the Scottish Rock Garden Club. To celebrate, we are holding a birthday party, by invitation, at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Sunday June 23rd. The day will include talks by two of the SRGC’s long-standing friends and leading lights, a picnic lunch, time to catch up with friends and chat, with the chance to see the special Explorers Garden. The programme starts at 10:00 a.m. when the reception desk opens and tea and coffee is served. The welcome at 10:45 will be followed by a lecture by Ron McBeath. There will be a picnic lunch at 12 noon (bring your own food), followed by a lecture by our friend Panayoti Kelaidis from Denver Botanic Garden. We will finish with refreshments in the Douglas Pavilion at 3:30 p.m. Pitlochry is a great place to visit, the scenery is spectacular, the welcome is always warm and there are so many things to see and do. So why not come to the party and take the opportunity to make a long weekend of it? You can meet friends, hunt some Scottish alpines and take in some culture by seeing a performance at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre (www.pitlochry.org.uk).
The Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve at nearby Keltneyburn is a great place (www.scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserve/keltneyburn) to see orchids in June. We will arrange a visit there on the Saturday for anyone coming for the weekend. The drive from Glen Lyon to Loch Tay provides the chance to do some roadside botanizing, with Saxifraga oppositifolia and Silene acaulis in flower.
For those wanting to stretch their legs, the 4-hour walk up Ben Vrackie gives access to the flora of this areawith orchids and Loiseleuria procumbens growing at your feet. To top it all, why not visit the famous Cluny Gardens (www.clunyhousegardens.com) to see the amazing primulas.
There is so much to see and do, you can’t help but have a great time. To help us celebrate, two hotels in Pitlochry have agreed to offer a special discounted rate for anyone attending the birthday party. On Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd June, Fishers Hotel (www.fishershotelpitlochry.com) offers DB&B on the Saturday for £54 per person per night and on the Sunday DB&B for £44 per person per night (quote Scottish Rock Garden and give the dates when booking). The Green Park Hotel (www.thegreenpark.co.uk/) offers a 10% reduction on the normal tariff for the 22nd and 23rd June (mention that you are involved in the SRGC weekend when booking to get the reduction).
We hope you will help us celebrate being 80 years young and we look forward to seeing you all in Pitlochry.

Please remember that anyone wishing to attend the party should apply to Mike Kendall, who is managing the requests, for a ticket. 
His details are in the Year Book: http://files.srgc.net/localgroups/SRGCSecPages2013.pdf
 


Flowers of the Hills & Mountains
SRGC Summer Meeting 17 August 10:00am to 4:00pm Dunblane Christian Fellowship Hall.

This new event celebrates the fact that the SRGC is a garden club and displays the plants which members grow. It will illustrate the  the beauty, diversity and garden worthiness of the widest range of rock and woodland garden plants, bulbs, shrubs and trees, to encourage their cultivation in gardens and to encourage the exchange of plants and knowledge among gardeners. The displays are not intended to be floral art.
The event is in four parts: Four 30 minute talks by SRGC members on the theme of ‘My Garden’, a display of rock garden plants, flowers, foliage and fruits,Seedling and plant exchange, Plant Sales. In addition space will be available for a display of photographs and artwork.

Late Bulb Day
SRGC Late Bulb Day will be held at Dundee University on 14 September   This is a ticket only event: tickets cost £5 payable at the door. There will be two talks by Bob & Rannveig Wallis of Buried Treasure, Carmarthen:  Eastern Kazakhstan, Tien Shan to Altai  and Bulbous Habitats.  If you would like to order bulbs from Bob & Rannveig they will bring them to the bulb day for you. For further information contact Barry Caudwell 01828 686709
Travelling Speaker 2013 
 Information on the 2013 Travelling speaker will be in the July Secretary’s Pages.

SRGC Annual General Meeting 2013
The SRGC Annual General Meeting  will take place on Saturday, 9th November
2013 in the Old Scone Church Hall, Scone at 1 pm.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Maggi,
I'm sorry we aren't able to stay (after the Czech RG Conference) long enough to enjoy the 80th birthday bash! Sounds like it'll be a hoot!
I've noticed on the local groups schedules that there are no meetings between April and August - is this because everyone is too busy in their own gardens to be able to attend a meeting?
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Yes Fermi, it is true most groups don't hold meetings with talks between April and September- some groups do, of course, arrange summer events, such as garden visits - but these are often only made known to local members directly because garden owners don't want wider publicity.

The general theory is that summer  meetings are not popular because folks have so many more demands on their time- (or are swanning off on their holidays!) during the summer months -  but with the difficulties of bad weather and dark nights, it seems that the autumn/winter programmes of evening meetings are less popular in some areas -  many groups will have to give thought to these matters in times to come, I think.   Daytime meetings get over some of the problems - for older members- but are less convenient for working members - it's not an easy path  to tread. 


The problem

[Maggi Young]

The SRGC journal, The Rock Garden, will be arriving with members any day now- there is an 80th  anniversary surprise enclosed which is rather fun...........

One of the articles in The Rock Garden is a piece on Roland Edgar Cooper,  who was one of the founding members of the SRGC 80 years ago, written by Alan Elliott.

Alan tells me that as there is a double anniversary with it being 100 years since Cooper's first collecting trip for A.K. Bulley Sikkim; the RBGE, because to the close links with the SRGC, are putting on a small exhibition of Cooper's archive material outside the Library between the 7th May – 26th July 2013.

The exhibition will have Cooper's maps from Bhutan, Sikkim and N.W. India from his collection trips for Bulley between 1913 and 1916, journals, specimens and images etc. on display.

Once you have seen Alan's article I think you will be keen to see the RBGE exhibit.

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks for the surprise, mine arrived this morning

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for the surprise, mine arrived this morning

So did mine, Brian - I hope we are raising the excitement level for other members as they wait for theirs to arrive! 

[Maggi Young]

  By now I hope  members have received their Journals and the 80th Birthday "surprise"-
   
     

 It is a calendar compiled from SRGC photos from the Forum and IRG by David Millward ("Dr Rock")

Hope you are all enjoying it!

[KenC]

A very welcome surprise with wonderful photos.  Thank's SRGC!

[Maggi Young]

As the SRGC celebrates its 80th anniversary, we send congratulations to other associations reaching milestone dates!



The  Botanic Garden  of the university of Strasbourg was formed in 1619  and  their Friends' Association celebates its thirtieth anniversary this year.

L'Association des Amis du Jardin Botanique de Strasbourg
http://www.association-des-amis-du-jardin-botanique-de-strasbourg.fr/

[Maggi Young]

As part of the SRGC birthday celebrations, the Edinburgh and the Lothians  Group is hosting a "Celebration Lecture" on the 9th April. Ger van den Beuken, from the Netherlands will be speaking on "Growing Tricky Alpines in the Netherlands".
This is a wonerful opportunity to hear a recognised international speaker and plantsman.
The meeting is open to members of all the other SRGC Groups to attend.
All are welcome at the meeting which will be held at RBGE, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh. Doors open at 1900hrs for 1930hrs.

[Maggi Young]

For other SRGC 80th Anniversary Events, see this page on the main website :
http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/events

or this thread in this Form:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10200.0

[alanelliott]

Its not strictly a SRGC event but it is related.

There is now a wee archival exhibition in the foyer of the Library at RBGE which will run until the end of July.

Its mostly material relating to R.E. Cooper, field images from Sikkkim and Bhutan from the 1913-1915, an amazing map he has annotated his route on, couple of stories about some of his plants and his Lepcha collectors. There are fragments of the Spitfire than came down in the Garden of the East Gate Lodge during WW2 when Cooper lived there, and a map of where to see his living collections in the garden still alive after almost 100 years.

There is also a wee bit about SRGC being 80 and some archival bits relating to David Wilkie who was also a founder of the SRGC. We even found an original of the very first SRGC talk syllabus from 1933 - which is pretty cool.

[Maggi Young]

Next SRGC Event :       Flowers of the Hills & Mountains
SRGC Summer Meeting 17 August 10:00am to 4:00pm Dunblane Christian Fellowship Hall.

This new event celebrates the fact that the SRGC is a garden club and displays the plants which members grow. It will illustrate the  the beauty, diversity and garden worthiness of the widest range of rock and woodland garden plants, bulbs, shrubs and trees, to encourage their cultivation in gardens and to encourage the exchange of plants and knowledge among gardeners. The displays are not intended to be floral art.
The event is in four parts: Four 30 minute talks by SRGC members on the theme of ‘My Garden’, a display of rock garden plants, flowers, foliage and fruits,Seedling and plant exchange, Plant Sales. In addition space will be available for a display of photographs and artwork.


And for another August Event  see here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10664.0