SRS Annual Show Saturday 30th April 2011,
Gargunnock Village Hall
Gloria Starck
It’s hard to believe that I only write one of these articles each year. The time passes so quickly.
The rhododendron season was very early this year and that caused a few worries as to whether we would get a good number of entries, but we needn’t have worried as the hall was full of fantastic specimens once again.
The Show Sub-committee put an enormous amount of effort into making the Show a success each year, and I take my hat off to them. I come along when it is all set up to do my stewarding duties so do not see the amount of detailed preparation goes into making our Show such a success.
Our Judges this year were the usual dynamic duo of David Chamberlain and Alan Clark. My fellow Stewards were Janet Gibson and John Roy.
As the flowering season was so early this year there were differences in the number of entries in some classes, the timing of the flowering season means there are more in some classes and less in others, so in many ways the changing in timing of the flowering season is a good thing – in my opinion!
As usual, there was much discussion on all the classes. Some were very difficult to award an eventual winner as all the entries were of a high calibre. Our judges do not actually fall out over the selection of the award winners, but they do have some interesting discussions and go into the pros and cons of some specimens in great detail. It is always a pleasure to go round with them and hear all the comments. I have noticed that the entries in the novice classes are getting better and better every year and we are seeing some new entrants, and they are doing very well.
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