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We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This
reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 May http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ |
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On May 17, 11:07 pm, Sacha wrote:
We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? I remember it well but I thought it was much more than five years ago!!! Wasn't there some suggestion about making it a CD garden? I can't remember why it fell through, Jane Ranson was posting then as, of course, was Kay so perhaps she will know what happened. |
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On May 17, 11:07 pm, Sacha wrote: We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? I remember it well but I thought it was much more than five years ago!!! Wasn't there some suggestion about making it a CD garden? I can't remember why it fell through, Jane Ranson was posting then as, of course, was Kay so perhaps she will know what happened. I don't think anything in particular happened - I just don't think enough of us had sufficient passion to have the energy to get the idea off the ground. -- Kay |
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In message . com,
" writes On May 17, 11:07 pm, Sacha wrote: We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? I remember it well but I thought it was much more than five years ago!!! Wasn't there some suggestion about making it a CD garden? I can't remember why it fell through, Jane Ranson was posting then as, of course, was Kay so perhaps she will know what happened. I think it just sort of fizzled out, no one obviously felt like taking up the idea and running with it. -- Chris French |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? -- Sacha I would say it was well over 5 years ago and a "Rope Theme" was talked about. I offered my services to find the rope and erect same and I believe I offered time as well. Without going back over the archives, I believe I offered to make a model, but someone will correct me if this is wrong. A silent lurker loves to pop up with any correction which has to be made with regards to my postings. Regret I am unable to offer any time now as I am very busy on ex Service Reunions, 16 now planned, and a 'new career' in being a Guest Speaker!! Kindest regards Mike -- The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy Reunion Bournemouth August/September 2007 www.rneba.org.uk |
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On 18/5/07 01:32, in article ,
"chris French" wrote: In message . com, " writes On May 17, 11:07 pm, Sacha wrote: We met someone at the DCS today who's going up to Chelsea to judge. This reminded me that some years ago urg discussed trying to do a small garden at Chelsea and how to go about it etc. It must be a good while back. Four years, five? I do recall a discussion on who would be chairman of any such project and I think I suggested Cormaic who rejected the honour on the grounds that he'd had a tactectomy. ;-) Quite a bit of chitchat went back and forth and then we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the whole thing had sort of died the death. Does anyone remember why it wasn't carried forward? I remember it well but I thought it was much more than five years ago!!! Wasn't there some suggestion about making it a CD garden? I can't remember why it fell through, Jane Ranson was posting then as, of course, was Kay so perhaps she will know what happened. I think it just sort of fizzled out, no one obviously felt like taking up the idea and running with it. That sounds about right. ;-) It would probably have been very difficult to do with all of us living so far apart and having very different ideas, too. In fact, it would probably have turned out to be a camel. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 May http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ |
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Why don't we have our own on-line flower/garden show ?
We could submit photo`s or a web site of our gardens and hopefully find someone to judge them. kate |
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On 18/5/07 12:00, in article
, "Kate Morgan" wrote: Why don't we have our own on-line flower/garden show ? We could submit photo`s or a web site of our gardens and hopefully find someone to judge them. kate It's an interesting idea but I don't know if photos would show gardens well enough. Do we show to RHS standards (!) or do we just ask someone impartial to say which is best. And then, by what criteria? The web ring has photos of urglers' gardens on it but I haven't looked recently to see how up to date it is. I think Cormaic was maintaining that and he hasn't had any time to himself lately! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 May http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ |
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On 18 May, 12:12, Sacha wrote:
On 18/5/07 12:00, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: Why don't we have our own on-line flower/garden show ? We could submit photo`s or a web site of our gardens and hopefully find someone to judge them. kate It's an interesting idea but I don't know if photos would show gardens well enough. Do we show to RHS standards (!) or do we just ask someone impartial to say which is best. And then, by what criteria? The web ring has photos of urglers' gardens on it but I haven't looked recently to see how up to date it is. I think Cormaic was maintaining that and he hasn't had any time to himself lately! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 Mayhttp://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ I think that in the end common sense prevailed, the logistics etc. as well as getting accepted by the RHS would have been a full time job. I would think that if anything like this was to rear its head again then a show like the Malvern Spring show would be much better, they are looking for gardens, and have virtually unlimited space. But speaking for myself a show later in the season would be better as May/June are my peak times. David Hill Abacus Nurseries |
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On 18/5/07 12:34, in article
, "Dave Hill" wrote: On 18 May, 12:12, Sacha wrote: On 18/5/07 12:00, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: Why don't we have our own on-line flower/garden show ? We could submit photo`s or a web site of our gardens and hopefully find someone to judge them. kate It's an interesting idea but I don't know if photos would show gardens well enough. Do we show to RHS standards (!) or do we just ask someone impartial to say which is best. And then, by what criteria? The web ring has photos of urglers' gardens on it but I haven't looked recently to see how up to date it is. I think Cormaic was maintaining that and he hasn't had any time to himself lately! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 Mayhttp://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ I think that in the end common sense prevailed, the logistics etc. as well as getting accepted by the RHS would have been a full time job. I would think that if anything like this was to rear its head again then a show like the Malvern Spring show would be much better, they are looking for gardens, and have virtually unlimited space. But speaking for myself a show later in the season would be better as May/June are my peak times. David Hill Abacus Nurseries Same here, David. It's a very busy time of year and it's also v. exxpensive long term. There's the transportation of a wide variety of plants which means hire of a big van/s; there's accommodation for all who go and of course, there's entry fees. A lot of the 'big boys' have people who do nothing but design show gardens, bring on plants especially cultivated for shows and then actually do the shows. It's interesting to do and I've enjoyed the two we've done but we've done them for PR purposes, frankly. That said, nearly everyone who walked past our stand yesterday said "oh, we're already customers of yours, our car could find its own way there"......so, is it worth doing next year? We'll decide nearer the time! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) Devon County Show 17-19 May http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/ |
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In article , Sacha
writes I remember it well but I thought it was much more than five years ago!!! Wasn't there some suggestion about making it a CD garden? Sounds a bit Diarmuid but I do remember CDs now that you mention them. That was one of the sillier ideas trying to make it 'Internet themed' I think we found that we had to apply much sooner than we were ready. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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