The Edinburgh & Lothians Show 2011

[FrazerHenderson]

THE EDINBURGH AND LOTHIANS SHOW
 
Saturday 2 April   1030 to 1600hrs
Show Hall opens at noon

PLANT SHOW                SEEDS                  BOOKS
NURSERY STALLS        SUNDRIES        TEAS    & CAKES      TOMBOLA

FAIRMILEHEAD PARISH CHURCH HALL
Frogston Road West, Fairmilehead, Edinburgh
(just off city bypass and on numerous bus routes)

The Edinburgh Group’s annual plant show enables the Group to show the public beautiful and interesting plants and to share these treasures. We need your support for the show to make sure it is a success.  So please tell everyone you know about the Show: tell all your friends, family, neighbours, work colleagues, what a brilliant display of plants there will be and bring them along. There are other ways you can help:

Bring some plants for the Show benches. If you have a plant that is looking good but don’t know how to enter it into the Show just telephone and we will help you. We’d really like every local club member to enter at least one plant.  If you have shown before, telephone your entries to Ian & Carole Bainbridge full details are in the Club Yearbook and Show Schedules. 

Bring plants for the Club sales stall: you can either donate them to the Club, or bring plants for sale on a 50:50 basis.  We need lots of plants to satisfy the public. 

Bring baking and refreshments for the teas: please bring lots of home baking.  We really do need help to prepare and serve food and drinks as well as clearing tables. Please consider giving even just one hour of your time – it will make a substantial difference. It will also allow our hard pressed band of volunteers some time to see the show for themselves. I do urge you to contact Elspeth Mackintosh on arrival.

Buy things while you’re there!  Don’t forget that there will be six trade nurseries as well as the Group plant stall, seeds for sale, the SRGC bookstall and a tombola.

Access to the plant sales area is from 1030hrs: the Show hall opens at noon, so you have plenty of time for coffee, cakes and plant buying.

And go on, please give Showing a try.......... £10 prize for new exhibitors!

Frazer Henderson

[Maggi Young]

Ian and I will miss the Edinburgh Show this year... for the first time in many years. 

It is always a grand day and Frazer has listed the myriad attractions.... have a lovely day!

[Lesley Cox]

Those who attend must take their cameras too. Best wishes for your show Frazer.

BTW, re your avatar, is it REALLY a good time to visit Yemen right now? Maybe not?

[ChrisB]

Hoping to be there for the first time, and looking forward to it.  Will try to take pics Lesley....

[angie]

This was going to be my first visit to the Edinburgh show but have had a bug all week so I thought I better not go. So please, please take plenty of pictures to let me see what I am missing.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Angie

[Graham Catlow]

I'm sorry to see that Maggi, Ian and Angie aren't going to be able to make it to the show.
I've just popped home after dropping my plants off and the show benches are full. They had to make more room for section II this year.
I think there are more plants there than I have ever seen in my four or five years of attending the shows.

Sorry if you can't attend and now wish you had, but there are cameras there at the moment and I will take mine this afternoon.

[Maggi Young]

Graham, what excellent news to hear that the entries in Section II are so n numerous. We had thought this would be a great show because th is is really peak season for so many plants but to hear that this is indeed the case is most pleasing.  We are so sorry to miss the spectacle but we hope to see some photos later.

Angela, we're at least glad you are well enough now to be back online!
It is certainly weather to be keeping out of here in Aberdeen.... filthy wet, windy day.Hope the sun shines on the Show Goers! 

[angie]

Graham good luck with your plants. Really annoyed that I can't get there but looking forward to all the pictures that you and everyone else will have to show us.

Yes Maggi glad to be back on the forum a few days off and I can't believe what I have missed. I was catching up last night and Derek shouted it's 1.30am you said you were going to just read a few posts and that was at 10.30pm surely you must have read everything by now. You see I hate missing out on anything.

Angie

[Graham Catlow]

Angie my apologies for not acknowedging you had been unwell. I am pleased you are feeling better and missed you not attending the show. Although as we had arranged for you to come and see my garden I realised I didn't need to get up early to have a quick tidy up

It was a good show with lost of excellent interesting plants. However, I do not seem to have any specimen photos worth showing so I will just give you a taste of the benches and await the real photographers to show you the best of the specimens. Even these are not great photos.

Part of the Section II benches
Central benches
Benches by the window.

[Maggi Young]

The Section II bench does look better filled than usual and the window benches are completely colour co-ordinated... all that blue!
Looks to have been a super show. Thanks Graham!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I think I can see "some" Primula on the bench near the window... 

Seems to have been a cracker of a show - hope to see more soon !

[Lesley Cox]

All that blue looks amazing! Looking forward to more detail

[ichristie]

Hi all, the Edinburgh show was full of superb plants and we had bright sunshine for most of the day, we met up with Ron and Susan McBeath so good to see them. I psot a few pictures and the Forrest medal winner was Bill Robertson with a small perfect pan of Narcissus  bulbocodium - Bill's first Forrest.

Bulbocodium Best plant in show Forrest medal_resize.JPG
Best corydalis red_resize.JPG
Cyril final touches_resize.JPG
Cyril's 6 pans_resize.JPG
Erythronium Ardovie blisss ( hendersonii hybrid)_resize.JPG
Jeffersonia alba_resize.JPG
Paraquilegia microphylla_resize.JPG
Pleione forrestii_resize.JPG

[ichristie]

A few more pics, cheers Ian the Christie kind

Primula elatior_resize.JPG
Pulsatilla section 2 winner_resize.JPG
Tecophilaea 3 pans_resize.JPG
Townsendia sp_resize.JPG
Trillium rivale Cyrils_resize.JPG

[Maggi Young]

Hi all, the Edinburgh show was full of superb plants and we had bright sunshine for most of the day, we met up with Ron and Susan McBeath so good to see them. I psot a few pictures and the Forrest medal winner was Bill Robertson with a small perfect pan of Bulbocodium Bill's first Forrest.

 Ermmm, I think that this might been Bill ROBINSON, from the Glasgow Group?
 Lovely plant, well done Bill!!