Gardening Scotland 2015

[David Nicholson]

Very well done to all

[Maggi Young]

More news from GS - Alf Evans Award (Best Commercial Alpine Exhibit) goes to Kevock Garden Plants - well done all at the Kevock Team!

[Lori S.]

Hello all just heard that SRGC have won a GOLD medal well done everyone the show is busy with lots of people buying seed and admiring the stand I am at home today great news,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

Congratulations to all involved!  Soooooo well deserved!

[Liz Mills]

When they left the display on Thursday afternoon Stan and the Gang thought that is was the best we'd ever staged, so the Gold was very well deserved.  And when the judges came round today to discuss the display, we learned that we were only 1 miserable point away from a Premier Gold!  How frustrating in one way, but also exhilirating since we'd made so much improvement over last year when we were at the bottom end of the Gold standard.

Huge congratulations to the whole team for a tremendous effort - including those who provided plants, there were about 20 members involved in staging the display.  Today the public were full of praise and many showed a genuine interest in learning more about our plants and how to grow them.  It was a grand day to be alive.

[Maggi Young]

It must have been a super day for you all at Ingliston - have to say it was not so much fun here, waiting till Ian  Christie's message about the result in  mid afternoon « Reply #43 on: Today at 02:29:35 PM »  !! 
We were hanging in limbo, wondering what had happened!

[Liz Mills]

Sorry, Maggi, for keeping everyone in suspense.  I really must buy a Smartphone and ditch my antique mobile (about 10 years old now).  Didn't manage to find the big boss, Stan, today to give him the news - his car is in the garage so maybe that's where he was.  But I have e-mailed him with the good news. 

[Maggi Young]

From Julia Corden
"It's a Gold for The Scottish Rock Garden Club at Gardening Scotland - lovely display"






  Left to right
Ian Bainbridge, Show Team's Rob Graham and  SRGC Presdient Carole Bainbridge then Aberdeen's Bill McGregor, former President Liz Mills and Helen McGregor

[Maggi Young]

Stan the Man's North Berwick in Bloom's colleagues won 2nd prize in the Groups' Pallet Garden Challenge - where a garden display must be made withing the "footprint " of a packing pallet - approx. 1m  x 1m.

[angie]

Great display and well done to everyone. Plants were looking so lovely.
Home with lots of goodies, think I will have to dig up some grass to find some more space.

Angie 

[ChrisB]

Brilliant display, so much work to get it to that level. Well done team!

[Maggi Young]

Some more word from Gardening Scotland - here's the roll call of awards for  assorted SRGC-connected pals  -
There seem to have been a raft of silver-gilt  medals awarded  ....Jacques Amand; Harperley Hall Farm; Hartside; MacPlants and Rumbling Bridge  all won silver-gilt  very well done to them all!

[ichristie]

Hello, just back from the show a very busy day loads of people visiting the stand have sold out of Meconopsis seed by afternoon Ian Pryde is to bring more tomorrow again a huge thank you to everyone who helped another very good team effort, I hate to thing that we head back tomorrow to take everything down then bring all the pants back in the garden in hope we have them for another year, supposed to pour rain  if it comes in the afternoon will help to bring people in to spend more money, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Maggi Young]

Here are a couple of shots of Rumbling Bridge's stand  - Graeme and Hilary were awarded a silver-gilt

[Maggi Young]

The  RHS Theatre was host to lots of Q& A sessions - for quite a few there were folks well known to the SRGC - well quite a few of them are members!


David Mitchell, formerly of RBGE (and of the panel of  the long-lost Beechgrove Potting Shed radio programme) , Lesley Watson of New Hopetoun Gardens ( formerly of the Beechgrove Garden TV programme)  and Colin Crosbie, Curator of RHS Wisley


David Knott of RBGE, Carole Baxter of the Beechgrove Garden and Colin Crosbie


Jim McColl of the Beechgrove Garden and Beryl McNaughton of Macplants ( and  the Caley,  the Mec Group and the srgc!!)


George Anderson , formerly of the RGE and now of the Beechgrove Garden ( and the Caley etc!)and Colin Crosbie


The RHS  Joint Rock Committee  met at the show - here they are at work ....

[Maggi Young]

Chris Collins - known to many as the gardener who appears on  BBC radio 5live ( - etc!) has been busy all weekend  as part of the "Love Your Plot" feature of the Show.  Chris Collins studied  in the past at RBGE.


this is his tweeted pic of "Three Horts of knowledge at #GardeningScotland today"
David Mitchell, Colin Crosbie (  that man is in every photo!)
 and George Anderson
and he tweeted this pic of himself with Jim McColl