Gardening Scotland 2012

[Stan da Prato]

some nurseries- Binny Plants: Best Floral 2 pics; Letham 1 pic; Kevock: Alf Evans award 3 pics;  MacPlants 2 pics

[Stan da Prato]

some more - Pretty Ugly Plants: insect eating plants; troughs from Hawthorn, one whose name I need to add and 2 pics of Harperley Hall

[Stan da Prato]

other nurseries  and societies in no particular order.
Alliums and Hippeastrums from Warmenhoven-best new exhibitor; the National Vegetable Society; Craig House Cacti; SE Scotland Fuchsia Society; Dibleys Streptocarpus and Begonias; Binny Peonies -the top shelf yellow is Lemon Chiffon that was best new plant in the show; Pentland Plant's flag; Fir Trees Pelargoniums; Scottish Begonia Society

[ChrisB]

Thanks so much Stan....

[Maggi Young]

Stan, you've done a grand job with this... not only with your work with "The Team" but in recording the process and now the show.... superb! 

[Maggi Young]

 Some screen grabs from TV last night..... off the telly with a camera......I should really have gone to the i-player to catch better shots but  well,  sorry! 

Edit: The prog. is now on i-player  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jkd0k/Beechgrove_Garden_2012_Episode_10/


To start with, Peter Foley who worked with the  British Thyroid Foundation in association with Dalgety Bay Horticultural Society on a display of  shrubs and perennials, which won a silver gilt medal. No real shots of the garden were shown!
 Peter Foley
A painting donated to the Thyroid Society (  the thyroid gland is butterfly -shaped) by an artist who had herself suffered with the disease.
Close -up

[Maggi Young]

Next  some shots with Beryl McNaughton, shown in the Poppy Scotland Garden that MacPlants designed and made, another silver gilt winner.

Beryl and her husband are stalwart members of the RCHS ( the Caley) as well as the SRGC and they and their family  have given much  support to Tibetan charities and students well as their work with UK  organisations.

[Maggi Young]

what's next?
Ah yes, Billy Carruthers of Binny Plants, whose  "Riverside Retreat won premier gold and Best Floral Exhibit 
 Their paeony stand,won a silver gilt and  captured the Best New Plant Award , to  Paeonia 'Lemon Chiffon'

[Maggi Young]

now SRGC members, Carole Baxter of the Beechgrove Garden TV programme interviews Show Manager Jim Jermyn in the Union Jack Flag planting by Pentland Plants ( a company run by the family of another BBC presenter, Carolyn Spray, who did not appear in last night's programme.... new rules for the BBC about presenters with displays  up for awards, as evidenced in the press about certain BBC TV Chelsea presenters!)

Then a  pic of Carole behind some of the carniverous plants of the 'Ugly Plants' stand

 Jim Jermyn describes some of the Schools' entries in a "WORLD IN A BASKET" COMPETITION ( may not be the correct name of the comp.!!)

Kevock  owners, Stella and David Rankin with Carole Baxter as they find out they have won premier gold and the Alf Evans Award......

[Maggi Young]

BBC presenters, George Anderson (past president of the Caley) Carole Baxter and Jim McColl, (president of the Caley)  near the Border Belles stand.

The crowds gather at the opening of the show

[Maggi Young]

Now for the most important bits of the programme, as regards the SRGC display!

As I said, the programme opened with Jim McColl by the SRGC Stand....
 We were also treated to  pix of various SRGC folk- and flowers, dotted here and there through the programme...
Carole Bainbridge, Graham Wenham ( vital member of The Team- remeber the set-up practices in his garage! Graham only joined the SRGC a few years ago, after signing up at a previous Gardening Scotland  ) and Alan Elliott ( Alan has been a Diana Aitchison Grant Recipient and credits the SRGC with giving him a new carrer!)

 Ian Pryde - member  of The Team, and Seed Exchange Chappie!
Some flowers and a grainy, magnified, shot of the SRGC carved stone.

The camera work of the programme concentrated rather a lot on sweeping shots across the stand, so it was tricky to get good shots off the TV screen, but I hope you get the idea!

[Maggi Young]

George Anderson was very taken with the stand....
 and I've just heard from Ian that he's been talking to Graham Wenham about Graham's ideas for next year's stand!

[David Shaw]

Ah, I thought it was not being shown until 12pm Sunday, must be the repeat. Our Saturday evening viewing is now planned, thanks Maggi.

[johnny-l]

Well done to everyone involved in the SRGC 's silver gilt stand particularly Graham Wenham, Ian Pryde and Stan da Prato. When I was there on Tuesday it was illuminating to see how much effort goes into creating these wonderful displays,  Lesley and Alan got mucked in like old hands placing and re-setting plants under the artistic eye of Stan the Man. Ian Pryde was, at times, called on to do some on the spot carpentry to great effect. During the day the stand evolved as ever more preening and embelishment took place. I'll re-join the gang on Sunday and I can't wait to see the finished stand in the flesh although a big thank you to Stan for his photos and Maggi for the TV piece. It sets the scene graphically for those who can't be there. Roll on tomorrow.
 John

[Maggi Young]

Ah, I thought it was not being shown until 12pm Sunday, must be the repeat. Our Saturday evening viewing is now planned, thanks Maggi.

Usually the programme isn't available on i-player until after the Sunday repeat, David- they must have pleaded special circumstances because of the GS show timings.