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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #45 on: May 30, 2014, 01:06:21 PM »
     The Alf Evans Award - for Best Commercial Alpine Exhibitor  -  has gone to Kevock Gardens - Congratulations!!             

Best Floral Exhibit - Beautiful Fife, 50 years of Bloom-    well done to Parsley the Lion!

Best New Floral Exhibitor - Westbank Enterprises! Congratulations!

 Don't know yet what happened in the pallet gardens competition- our man Snapper Stan is involved in those, too  :D
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #46 on: May 30, 2014, 01:14:20 PM »
The students from the SRUC have won a silver-gilt medal for their garden for the NSPCC -
"Fantastic effort by SRUCStudents for creating this prize winning Garden of Childhood Adventure"

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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #47 on: May 30, 2014, 01:52:28 PM »
Congratulations to the team on building the Gold Medal display!
I saw the stand on Wednesday before it was finished and it looked good then. You are showing people a wide range of plants and ways to combine them in modern gardens.
As usual the as SRGC is promoting rock gardening. It is not easy to combine plants into great display whilst making it aesthetic.
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #48 on: May 30, 2014, 02:02:03 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on May 30, 2014, 01:06:21 PM
    The Alf Evans Award - for Best Commercial Alpine Exhibitor  -  has gone to Kevock Gardens - Congratulations!!             

Best Floral Exhibit - Beautiful Fife, 50 years of Bloom-    well done to Parsley the Lion!

Best New Floral Exhibitor - Westbank Enterprises! Congratulations!

 Don't know yet what happened in the pallet gardens competition- our man Snapper Stan is involved in those, too  :D

NBIB  winner in groups section  with gold medal no. 8 - the 17 sports in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The only snap available so far is from  the NBIB website. There is a people's choice pallet award for the first time this  year still to be decided.
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #49 on: May 30, 2014, 06:49:02 PM »
Well done our team, it looked a cracking display.
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #50 on: May 30, 2014, 07:12:34 PM »
Bravo!  What a super display, I could see it was shaping up nicely....
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #51 on: May 30, 2014, 07:18:32 PM »
I hope some nice people will post lots of pictures of Gardening Scotland .No Beechgrove garden this evening
In this area BBC satellite signal broke down AGAIN and again and again.......
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #52 on: May 30, 2014, 07:28:59 PM »
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Thoroughly enjoyed my day at Gardening Scotland. Thought the SRGC display was really beautiful. Had followed the building of the display on this forum and the final result was even better than expectations. Well done to the team that built it. Thoroughly deserved the Gold.
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #53 on: May 30, 2014, 07:38:24 PM »
Sorry to hear the satellite signal broke down, John, because the Beechgrove programme from GS was rather good.  We got some nice comments from Carole on the SRGC display as well as seeing Liz Mills being very pleased to see the Gold Medal ticket on the stand!

Not mentioned by name, but  well covered, was the Rumbling Bridge Nursery stand of Graeme and Hilary Butler- great SRGC supporters. Their display looked absolutely terrific -  I hope we get some photos later.

Billy Carruthers was his usual cheerful self - speaking about his New Zealand themed garden - folks here will have seen him mentioned in the  NZ trip with the Christie's the other year - exciting to see the fruit of the trip, which clearly had a profound effect on Billy.
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #54 on: May 30, 2014, 07:46:53 PM »
A pic of part of the award winning Kevock Stand from Cath Quinney



"younghort" Kitty Wilkins tweeted these from Jacques Amand's display





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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #55 on: May 30, 2014, 08:04:34 PM »
Congrats to the  RCHS Caley allotment for GOLD on their Bridgend Allotment  japanese pallet garden




 Someone tweeted this picture of GS show manager Jim Jermyn "signing the pledge " - but we can only guess what the pledge was..... ;)



 
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #56 on: May 31, 2014, 11:05:44 AM »
Colin Crosbie is tweeting from GS :
 
"First talk @The_RHS Lecture Theatre @GardenScotland is at 11.15 by Ian Young and Ian Bainbridge on growing alpines.

The two Ian's from the SRGC talking about growing alpines @ GardenScotland @The_RHS Lecture Theatre "



Ian Y's going on to an "an Audience with Ian Young "   in the Story Tent ....
and the next Q & A is at 12.15 @The_RHS Lecture Theatre  by David Mitchell, Colin Crosbie & George Anderson.
lots going on at Gardening Scotland as well as all the great plants to see.

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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #57 on: May 31, 2014, 04:07:14 PM »
self indulgence - some snaps of the club stand today
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #58 on: May 31, 2014, 04:08:27 PM »
..and some more
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Re: Gardening Scotland 2014
« Reply #59 on: May 31, 2014, 04:21:17 PM »
No self indulgence when you are letting  the members see what you and the team achieved on our behalf and in  Graham's honour, I am quite sure.
The display really does look grand- quite remarkable what you have done. There are lots of folks enjoying it too, which is terrific.

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