Discussion Weekend 2015

[Maggi Young]

News Flash:  :  unexpectedly, there are two rooms available at the Garth Hotel for the SRGC Discussion Weekend in Grantown-on-Spey. (double rooms or singles)


Update 29th March : all rooms taken again - still  a few day delegate places or you can go on a waiting list for any cancellation.

Contact Carol Shaw 

[tonyg]

News Flash:  :  unexpectedly, there are two rooms available at the Garth Hotel for the SRGC Discussion Weekend in Grantown-on-Spey. (double rooms or singles)


Update 29th March : all rooms taken again - still  a few day delegate places or you can go on a waiting list for any cancellation.

Contact Carol Shaw

Thank you Maggi for yesterdays well timed ad for those two places ...... just printing off the booking form now 

[Carol Shaw]

We now have a waiting list for residential delegates, there are a few day delegate places available though... 

[Carol Shaw]

Discussion Weekend Show...

John Owen is unable to come to the Discussion Weekend please send all your Show entries to David Shaw either email him: delftdavid@googlemail.com or phone him on 01309 641405. Please let him have all your entries by mid morning on the Thursday as we will be heading through to the Grant Arms then to set up the Show and ensure everything is ready for your arrival on the Friday.

Thanks Carol

[tonyg]

Discussion Weekend Show...

John Owen is unable to come to the Discussion Weekend please send all your Show entries to David Shaw either email him: delftdavid@googlemail.com or phone him on 01309 641405. Please let him have all your entries by mid morning on the Thursday as we will be heading through to the Grant Arms then to set up the Show and ensure everything is ready for your arrival on the Friday.

Thanks Carol

I wonder how pots of crocuses will fare on the 9 hour train journey .... oh and the bus after that   
I might give it a try though - will let David know before the deadline.

[Maggi Young]

Late Opportunity to attend SRGC Discussion Weekend 2-4 October 2015

There are unexpectedly two places available for the Scottish Rock Garden Club discussion weekend at Grantown on Spey  from 2-4 th October - contact Carol Shaw as soon as possible if you wish to attend -  findhorncarolATicloud.com ( replacing AT with @, of course)

[Maggi Young]

Many delegates and speakers are already en route to Grantown on Spey forthe SRGC Discussion Weekend -  here's hoping all have a trouble-free journey and arrived  ready to enjoy themselves!

Looking forward to seeing many friends there!

Maggi

[Anthony Darby]

Have a great weekend.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Anthony! Ian and I are in Grantown now and quite a few of us are around the place already -enjoying the warmth and sunshine. Yes, warmth and sunshine!!  Carol and David Shaw are  here- with all arrangements in hand.
Todd Boland has arrived with Ian and Ann Christie.  Brian Burrow has been out tramping the hills.  Ian and Roma Smith are here -their travelling country cottage is outside and they have  tales of a good trip to Greece earlier in the year. Rosemary and John Lupton are here. Some Norwegian friends, Marit and Stig, who have another SRGC pal with them, Viggo Ursfjord  are here -they've been up Cairngorm in the funicular today. Tony and Gill Lee just got here .... ...... the numbers are rising by the minute!

Weather seems set fair - so all is looking very promising indeed!

[Stan da Prato]

First snap attached of the show organisers understandably delighted with their first Forrest medal  award.

[ichristie]

What a fantastic weekend the finest food, friend and lectures will post a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Next set.

[Stan da Prato]

.....some snaps of the other award winners' plants. I again received  the Mary Bowe trophy for bringing  most plants. I also had the East Lothian trophy (which recalls  the days the show was in North Berwick where  I grew up   so I suppose it has come home ) for class 3: three plants, one of which  also received  a merit certificate  - this Petrocosmea  is better shown in Ian's  earlier photo. I also received  the Mowat conifer trophy for Microcachrys tetragona in (tiny) cones. Anne Wright is best known  as a daffodil grower and hybridiser but she can also grow cyclamen and thus won the cup for best plant in section 2 as well as a merit certificate  for a C mirabile in the open classes. She is pictured  beside her very nice pot of autumn  snowdrops.

[Stan da Prato]

Local member and plant stall worker Tina Finch deservedly took the Wellstanlaw cup for an  arrangement  of rock garden flowers. Matt Topsfield  brought a photo of wildflowers on the Western  Isles which won the Reivers trophy for a picture  of a Scottish native plant.

[Stan da Prato]

Tthe customary tour of the benches.