Kendal Show 14th March 2015

[Maggi Young]

NEXT  MAIN SRGC EVENT!

Kendal SRGC / AGS Show Saturday, 14 March 2015 - 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (show hall opens approx 11.30)

at Kirkbie Kendal School, Lound Road, Kendal, LA9 7EQ.

From the North: M6 J37 take A684 towards Kendal. After 5 miles turn left onto Park Side Rd (immediately before 40mph signs). After 0.8 miles at T Jn turn left onto Lound Rd (A65). School is on left after Shell garage.

From the South: M6 J36 take A590/A591 for 6 miles, then A6 to Kendal South. In Kendal, right at first traffic lights, then left at roundabout and immediately right into school grounds

There will be displays  and competitive plant classes and a new artistic section.

Nurseries attending:

Aberconwy Nursery           Edrom Nursery
Hartside Garden Nursery   Holehird Gardens
Kevock Garden Plants       Mary Green Plants
Pottertons                        Slack Top Nursery
Summerdale Garden Plants   and a Members' stall.

This joint SRGC /AGS show  will be run under  SRGC rules this year - so a Forrest Medal may be won by the most meritorious plant in the show.


- click  HERE for 2015 SRGC Show Schedules  and all show  details

[Palustris]

If the weather is clement then we hope to be there. Not been to Kendal since I left Uni, over 45 years ago.

[Darren]

If the weather is clement then we hope to be there. Not been to Kendal since I left Uni, over 45 years ago.

Hope you make it to the show.

The team is getting ready and I hope it is a bit less stressful for Alan this year, now that he has managed the first one very successfully in 2014.

 Susan and I will be around all day as well as helping set up on friday evening. As usual I will be manning the members plants stall for at least part of the day and Susan will be doing the important task of womanning the show computer.

For those who don't know Summerdale Garden plants: it is the local nursery owned by the parents of Abi, who owns the nursery Susan works at (Abi & Tom's Garden Plants). They have a very eclectic mix of well grown plants including many primula and other things well suited to the Lake District climate.

[Maggi Young]

I have no doubt Alan will again cope very well. 
There is the new artistic section to the Kendal show this year, too - hope that is well-supported too.

[Maggi Young]

Summerdale are getting ready :



summerdalegardenplants.co.uk

[Maggi Young]

What a pity that none of the AGS' "Tweets" about the show mention that it is a JOINT show with SRGC.

[Matt T]

Supportive partnership working... 

All these pics of gorgeous wee plants going off to market is torture for those of us unable to get there 

[Darren]

What a pity that none of the AGS' "Tweets" about the show mention that it is a JOINT show with SRGC.

Especially given that it is under SRGC rules this year...

[Maggi Young]

Especially given that it is under SRGC rules this year...

The SRGC  always makes mention that this ( as well as Hexham and Ponteland) is one of the "joint" shows", no matter what set of rules these shows are run under.

It is not just in "Tweets" that this information is missed - the same happens on the AGS website  too- no mention of the SRGC at all....   very disappointing.

------ What's New ------
Kendal AGS Show this Saturday

Saturday, 14 March 2015 - 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (show hall opens approx 11.30)

at Kirkbie Kendal School, Lound Road, Kendal, LA9 7EQ.

From the North: M6 J37 take A684 towards Kendal. After 5 miles turn left onto Park Side Rd (immediately before 40mph signs). After 0.8 miles at T Jn turn left onto Lound Rd (A65). School is on left after Shell garage.

From the South: M6 J36 take A590/A591 for 6 miles, then A6 to Kendal South. In Kendal, right at first traffic lights, then left at roundabout and immediately right into school grounds

See a colourful display of early flowering dwarf bulbs and alpines and buy plants at the plant sales.

Nurseries attending:

Aberconwy Nursery           Edrom Nursery
Hartside Garden Nursery   Holehird Gardens
Kevock Garden Plants       Mary Green Plants
Pottertons                        Slack Top Nursery
Summerdale Garden Plants

and of course, the Members Stall!

Picture: Dionysia aretioides winning a Certificate of Merit last year for Frank and Barbara Hoyle

AGS members enjoy FREE entry to AGS Shows.

edit by m to add quote from AGS site

[Martinr]

I suggest being aware of glass house syndrome...............The AGS Shows Handbook always says at the top that it is 'organised by the AGS in conjunction with the SRGC'. In the SRGC shows handbook this is only stated for the Newcastle show. You have to read down to  'Organisation' to find that members of both societies are eligible for the other two shows. The AGS page for show dates and venues also states which shows are joint.

p.s. I don't Tweet, I leave that to the birds

[Maggi Young]

I will certainly bring that to the attention of Barry Caudwell, Martin. I am talking of the "public" announcements made.

From the SRGC show schedules :

KENDAL SHOW
14TH MARCH
FROM 10AM TO 4.00 PM (SHOW HALL OPENS APPROX. 11:30)
SHOW SECRETARY: Alan Oatway, Coulmore, Canny Hill, Newby Bridge,
Ulverston, Cumbria. LA12 8NT
Telephone: 015395 30702
email: Alan.Oatway@agsgroups.org
(Please state if a member of AGS, SRGC or both)

NORTHUMBERLAND SHOW: HEXHAM
28th March 10am to 4.00 pm (show hall opens approx. 11:30)
SHOW SECRETARY: Peter Maguire
18 Princes Meadow, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE3 4AZ
Telephone 0191 284 0385
e-mail pandamaguire@btinternet.com
VENUE: Wentworth Leisure Centre, Hexham, Northumberland
ENTRIES: To the Show Secretary by Wednesday before the show
STAGING: 8.00 - 9.45 am, Saturday of the show. No staging Friday night
JUDGING: begins at 10.00 am
ORGANISATION: Exhibitors should note that AGS Show Notes and Regulations
apply this year, and SRGC next year. Accordingly a Farrer medal may be awarded this year.
Members of both AGS & SRGC are eligible for all prizes, medals and other awards. Points count
towards Seasonal Aggregates and Merit Medals according to membership.

NEWCASTLE OCTOBER 10th
From 10am to 4pm (show hall opens approx. 11:30)
Organised by the ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY in conjunction with the SCOTTISH ROCK GARDEN
CLUB
COWELL'S GARDEN CENTRE, MAIN ROAD, WOOLSINGTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE13 8BW
From A1 round Newcastle, take B6918 for 1.6 miles, then venue is on the left.
SHOW SECRETARIES: Alan Newton, 12 Main Street, Ponteland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE20 9NR.
Tel: 01661 871974, email: Alan.Newton@agsgroups.org
Alan Furness, St Lukes Cottage, Wooley, Hexham. NE46 1TT.
Tel: 01434 673445. email: Alan.Furness@agsgroups.org
ENTRIES TO: Alan Newton by Wednesday, before the show.
(Novice Section Entries at any time - advance notice of large entry appreciated)
STAGING: 8.00 am to 9.45 am on Saturday only.
No late entries after 9.30am on the Saturday
JUDGING: begins at 10.00 am TROPHY PRESENTATION: 3.45 pm
Exhibitors should note that SRGC Show Notes and Regulations apply this year, and AGS next year.
Accordingly a Forrest medal may be awarded this year.
Members of both AGS & SRGC are eligible for all prizes, medals and other awards. Points count towards
Seasonal Aggregates and Merit Medals according to membership.
Bulbous plants: Under SRGC rules Note 15; the term ‘bulbous plant’ includes corms and tubers but NOT
rhizomes and Orchidaceae

[annew]

I have no doubt Alan will again cope very well. 
There is the new artistic section to the Kendal show this year, too - hope that is well-supported too.

Just finished one of the paintings this morning! I want to contribute since the AGS have allowed more interesting classes that don't have to be 'the full botanical'.
Hope to see some other forumists there - please introduce yourselves if you see me.

[Jon Evans]

As it happens I posted this event on the AGS website - I have been doing that recently to help out.

There is no evil conspiracy - merely omission in haste.  Rather than re-type information from the shows handbook (which includes the line "Organised by the ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY in conjunction with the SCOTTISH ROCK GARDEN CLUB") I copied last year's event details and updated it with the information about this year's event.

I will try to correct this omission for future shows; if there are mistakes please feel free to give me a polite nudge.

[Maggi Young]

Very kind, Jon. 
I expect, given the unstinting publicity which is given to AGS events on this site,  that you can see that it is a tad odd not to see the SRGC even mentioned in AGS public  notices for joint shows.

[Tim Ingram]

I would love to come to the Kendal Show but as much to see the Lake District and gardens like Holehird as anything else, which puts it into perspective for me. I do think this, which is a new Show as far as place is concerned, is an opportunity to fly the flag for alpines in general and for closer organisational ties to be forged between the two alpine societies, still in the same country at least at the moment . Change seems to be in the air in all sorts of ways and the success of the alpine shows presumably must lie in those new gardeners who get involved as much as for those who have been for much of their lives. Hope that all those new to the alpine gardening world enjoy visiting Kendal! I'm sure they will.