Joint SRGC/AGS Kendal Show 17th March 2018

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nurseries taken at the start of the day thus the full trays of plants

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other nurseries and the club plant stall

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SECTIONS 2 & 3

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AND THE REST

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PEOPLE AMONG THE PLANTS

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more people

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and others

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yet more

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a few more

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  People  doing the work  to make the show happen

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The show closed  a little early to let people get home on deteriorating roads. The breakdown was even quicker than usual many hands making light work.  Having finished  posting my snaps  I look forward to reading other  contributions.

[Maggi Young]

Well done, Stan - you continue to amaze me- you attend the show , supporting it with your plants, take the photos, get packed up and home again - often thro'  nasty weather - and before we know it you have a full pictorial report for us here!

No small feat for all concerned to get a show  of such quality  in such a week - I think  Alan Oatway and  all of the  Show Team at Kendal can feel VERY pleased with themselves. 

Some more photos  on the SRGC Facebook page -  @ScottishRockGC  -  https://www.facebook.com/ScottishRockGC/

[veteran vet]

As usual way behind others in posting a few pictures and  in my usual style no scenes or pictures of folk, just plants in close up with exhibitors names and classes. As has already been said the show was a bit less in plant numbers than some years but the quality was still top class, a few exhibitors that usually were present did not attend because of the weather forecast, as it happens, from my part the weather did not interfere at all and, thanks to an excellent decision to close the show early, I was home just 10 minutes before the snow came down hard, my car had several inches on it in less than half an hour...if it had been normal closing time I would have been driving home through it.
Don Peace had another fantastic day bringing many plants of high quality and these earned him many red stickers and so the Hollett Trophy for the most points in the Open classes. Among his exhibits were
Primula 'Arduaine' in class 3, earned a Certificate of Merit' (C of M)
Iris 'Frank Elder' (26)
Saxifraga oppositifolia (Icelandic Form) 72
Corydalis 'Lentune Rouge' won him the AGS Seed Distribution Award for this year

[veteran vet]

To continue with Don Peace he also won an AGS Medal for the small 6 Class 51, the exhibits were Primula allionii BB 99 16 1, Primula 'Arduaine', Corydalis kuznetzovii, Iris winnowgradowii, Dionysia schummellii and Saxifraga oppositigolia Icelandic Form.....a really nice exhibit . This exhibit also had the Duncan Lowe award for the Best Pan less than 19cm but I cant remember which it was!!!
Dionysia aretiodes x bazoftica in 8 from David Morris
Primula 'Fritz Kummert' from Frank Hoyle (12)
Iberis pruitii from Tom Green (14) ...even bought one from a trade stand as I had lost my one
Callianthemum kernerianum from Wilma and Jim Wright (16), not so often seen now, earned a C of M.

[veteran vet]

Hepatica 'Blue Sandan' from stalwart supporters of AGS and SRGC Shows Brian and Shelagh Smethurst (15). They also
Hepatica 'Gyose' in 18 which earned a C of M
Corydalis cinteara from Frank and Barbara Hoyle (17)
Dionysia viscidula x freitagii from Mark Childerhouse (2)
Narcissus henriquesii from Darren Sleep (17), another C of M