Aberdeen SRGC Show Saturday 16th May 2015

[Maggi Young]

Super Show of rock garden and alpine plants and plant sales too  - All welcome - free admission for all !
VENUE: Victorian Corridor, Winter Gardens, Duthie Park, Polmuir Road, Aberdeen AB11 7TH




 Club plant stall and  plants for sale from Ardfearn, Kevock and Garden Gate


  Approaching venue from the South.

[Matt T]

As luck would have it, we're on the mainland that weekend and looking forward to the show. The only competitive show I'll make this spring.

[jomowi]

Delighted to see that the Aberdeen show is being re-instated.  It deserves all the support it can get both locally, nationally and even internationally if anyone is visiting Scotland.  Only sorry I can't be there myself - a family wedding has got in the way. Love the poster. 

[David Shaw]

We have booked into Cove Bay Hotel for Friday night. That was easy, now to find some plants!

[angie]

Matt I hope you will have some plants with you. I think I am going to struggle this year. I have neglected my plants this year. Family commitments had to come first. Looking forward to the day and catching up with everyone.

Maureen enjoy your wedding and maybe see you up here next year with some plants for the show bench.  You could have inspected your old garden if you had managed to come. Bill and Helen are looking after it for you. I told them they should have opened it for the day and people coming to the show could have visited the garden. It is looking so lovely.

David do your best with your plants. Its been years since I have been in the Cove Bay hotel but that was my local, stayed in Cove for many years. Only had a tiny garden so had to move on.

 

Angie 

[Matt T]

Impossible this time around, Angie We're heading over on the ferry on Monday and then travelling around half of Scotland for the week, so plants would suffer and certainly not be in show-worthy condition. I have some seedlings and cuttings coming on to bring to a future sales stall - summer event IF I can make it, otherwise at the DWE. Look forward to meeting you in Aberdeen.

[angie]

Hope the weather will be nice for your trip. Yes, I can imagine it wouldn't be a good idea transporting your plants that distance.
It's a miserable day here and I was hoping to get some cutting done to sell for the club, that will now have to wait for another day and with the lack of nice weather all my plants that I was hoping would be ready for the show wont be. I hope others have better luck than me. Looking forward to the day, sandwich making for me. They don't give me anything technical to do as I am hopeless.

Hope to see lots of members on the day.

Angie 

[Chris Johnson]

A think a good level of skill is required to make decent sandwiches, and there are not many more important jobs.

[angie]

A think a good level of skill is required to make decent sandwiches, and there are not many more important jobs.

Thank you. We are not allowed to sell food at this new venue as they have the own cafe so sandwiches are just for members and those who look starving 

Angie 

[Chris Johnson]

... and those who look starving 

That will be Maggi, then ...

[angie]

That will be Maggi, then ...

Maggi and I are the same, we eat chocolate as they say it gives you that happy feeling. I can tell you they are right, I am always happy when I have something and thats anything covered in chocolate 

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

I could never claim to be starving - but it's true  I am Permanently Peckish! 

[angie]

I could never claim to be starving - but it's true  I am Permanently Peckish! 

 

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

Middle of May and a day of decidedly April weather in Aberdeen today - Sun and some showers.
Warm ( often VERY warm) and bright in the Victorian Corridor of the Winter Garden at the Duthie Park for the Aberdeen SRGC Show.  The Winter Gardens have all the usual amenities of such a large glasshouse attraction and one of the largest ( it certainly used to the THE largest) Cactus collections in the UK is house in nearby glasshouse - here's a  shot from Ian of one ....

[Maggi Young]

In this venue the show plants are displayed on shallow sand benches on either side of this long corridor, decorated  at the moment with HUGE baskets of Streptosolen jamesonii which certainly added colour - not to mention floral head decorations to those brushing under their trailing stems. When they fall on your head the flowers  stay there - they are quite sticky.
We were told that when they first had them in the Winter garden they tried growing them as in nature- as shrubs in a border, but the plants never did too well - then some suggested trying them as hanging basket plants - that worked a treat, as you can see. Those baskets must be nearly a metre across and the drop on the stems  up to 2 m in some cases! ( The roof must be pretty sturdy!)

Two photos from Ian Young of staging plants this morning





A few of the  Lewisias entered


The Forrest Medal Plant - Daphne calcicola 'Napa Hai' - grown by  Cyril Lafong !
It is large and perfect!