AGS Tewkesbury Show on Saturday 13th July

[shelagh]

Perhaps this hasn't been mentioned because everyone's plants are going over by the minute, but there might be something to see on Saturday.


{Edit by maggi to thread title to correct date}

[Maggi Young]

Remiss of me not to get this posted earlier, Shelagh.... but your date is out --- it is the 13th July
 Saturday July 13th            12 noon to 4.00 pm
AGS  SUMMER SHOW (MID WEST)
Tewkesbury School, Ashchurch Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8DF 
 
Hope everyone has a wonderful day - I'm sure there are bound to be plenty folks with  "real summer plants" to share!

[shelagh]

We have got everything crossed including eyes that we may have something worth taking.

[Maggi Young]

We have got everything crossed including eyes that we may have something worth taking.

Oh! I thought  you had that look because you'd got a particularly sour lemon in your G and T. ....
Sure you'll have something to support the show  - I have faith in you!

I believe that all these nurseries will be in attendance :
Aberconwy,  Pottertons, Choice Landscapes, Parham Bungalow, Thuya Alpine Nursery and Blackthorn  -  so there will be a good chance for visitors to the show to fill any mid summer gaps in their gardens! I do not  doubt there will be a good AGS members plant stall, too..... 

Should we try to guess what will win a Farrer?  I'll take the easy vote- for a Campanula! 

[Martin Baxendale]

Ooh, that's not far from here. But I seem to have mislaid my new membership card  I assume it's open to the pubic for an entrance fee if I can't find my card? Just hope all the nicest nursery plants aren't gone by the time the public are allowed in.

[Martinr]

Martin, the nurseries will be selling from early morning. Most shows have the entry desk manned by about 9.30 but you could arrive even earlier (some exhibitors do their buying before they stage their plants so they don't miss the choicest offerings!) and you won't have a problem getting in to the plant sales area, just don't go nicking us poor exhibitors tea and toast It's only the show hall that is closed off to the public in the morning during set up and judging.

Come and say hello, just look for a grumpy, bearded, bespectacled Glaswegian - can't miss me

[shelagh]

Come and say hello, just look for a grumpy, bearded, bespectacled Glaswegian - can't miss me

Couldn't have put it better myself Martin.  No honestly we are looking forward to seeing you, you have been missed.  Oh and it's your round

[Helen Johnstone]

Am planning on entering something for the first time at Tewkesbury.  Saying that the flowers are going over on the Erodium so I may not now be able to enter that.  Has lots of buds and I have had a firm talk to it about pulling its socks up so it can go out for the day but who knows

[Maggi Young]

Good for you, Helen  - no exhibits, no show, and all that, eh?!

Good luck and HAVE FUN!!!

[Helen Johnstone]

have been prowling round the garden looking for plants and consulting the list of plants allowed to see what I rustle up.  Think I have two classes sorted and possibly a third if the plant will just flower.

[Martinr]

Brilliant Helen, and if you need staging advice just ask on Saturday morning as my short list of show plants won't take long to stage.

[Helen Johnstone]

I doubt there is much advice to give for two pots of plants!!!

[shelagh]

Oh Helen if only you knew It's all in the staging especially for canny Scots and Judges

[Maggi Young]

Oh Helen if only you knew It's all in the staging especially for canny Scots and Judges

At AGS shows aren't the entry cards already  placed on the bench and you must put your plant where the card is placed? That seems to be what I have seen 

For Martin: Do you really all have to show your AGS membership cards to gain access ?  At SRGC shows we take people on trust.

[Helen Johnstone]

Oh Helen if only you knew It's all in the staging especially for canny Scots and Judges

But surely there is only so much you can do with when staging one pot - apart from turning to its best advantage?  I suspect I am very niave on this matter