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Scottish Branch
Dates for the Diary
Please note the change of dates for the Strathclyde leek and Onion club. It is the 21st/22nd Sep so that it does not clash with Malvern Autumn Show.
2019 Q3
Month
Day
Branch /DA
Description
Speaker
Location
Start time
Jul 7th
Sep 7th /8th
Sep 21st & 22nd
Oct 5th
Scottish Branch
Scottish Branch
Strathclyde Leek & Onion Club, Gourock
Scottish Branch
Annual Garden visit to Cowden Japanese garden, John Currie’s Garden and Ian Stock’s plot.
N/A
Cowden Garden Clackmannanshire, see Scottish branch article in SV SPRING EDITION for directions.
Dalkeith School Community Campus, Dalkeith EH22 2PS
Cardwell Garden Centre, Lunderston Bay
Aytoun Town Hall, Auchterarder
11.00am
schedule in July mag edition.
1pm
Jul/Aug
30th to 1st
National Championships
Championships
N/A
New Forest Show, Brockenhurst SO42 7QH
Show opens 10.30am
Championships N/A
Show N/A
Committee meeting N/A
Sep
21st
North of Scotland DA
Show
N/A
Simpsons Garden Centre, Inverness.
Staging 8.00am to 9.45am. Judging 10.00am to 11.30am
2019 Q4
Month
Day
Branch /DA
Description
Speaker
Location
Start time
Oct
5th
Scottish Branch
Judges exam
N/A
Aytoun Town Hall, Auchterarder
Theory
10.00am, Practical12.00 noon
Nov
16th
Scottish Branch
Annual Seminar
M. Williams,
(growing for Chelsea) S. De-Prato,
(Wildlife in the Garden) I. Stocks
(Celery)
Pentland Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik EH26 0PZ
Register 10.00am Start 10.30am
Scottish branch Championships 2019
The Scottish Branch Championships will soon be upon us with only a couple of months to go. The Championships this year will be held in the Dalkeith School Community Campus on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th September. Each Scottish Branch member will have received a copy of the Scottish Branch Championships Schedule in with your magazine.
Please note , if anyone else requires a copy, you can either down load the schedule and entry form from the NVS web site and or contact Neil Muirhead, show secretary on via email ; neil.muirhead@blueyonder.co.uk or call 07753 771 378.
Please note that Dalkeith Horticultural Society also host their local show at this time, should you require a copy of this schedule, please contact their show secretary , Mrs Gladys Hardwick, Tel 0131 660 1816, email gladys@hardwicks.plus. com or I can email you a scanned copy, please contact Scottish Branch Secretary, Fiona Shenfield Tel 01592 890 284 email fcshome@talktalk.net .
Fiona Shenfield
Scottish Branch - 200 Club
At time of writing our 200 Club update in May our “200 club” has now reached 235 members, so thank you again, to everyone who has joined. Every individual helps us run the Branch and support our various events throughout the year and gives two nice surprises for ten months of the year to our “200 Club members”. Could you be the next lucky winner?
By becoming a 200 Club member, your number(s) is entered into our monthly prize draw, 10 months of the year (Jan to Oct inclusive). 200 Club membership costs only £5 per year, that’s only 50p per month, for the ten months that the draw is done.
The last three months results of the 2019 draw are noted below, congratulations!
By the time you read this edition, we will have also drawn May’s & June’s 2019’s winners.
Month
First Prize £40 *
Second Prize £17*
February
Kevin Nicolson
Bill Duff
March
David Samuel
Laura Gray
April
John Kinloch
Jim Blackwood
*Current prize money at time of going to print. Note; prize money is dependent on how many 200 Club members we have. (half the revenue generated goes towards the Scottish Branch funds and half go towards prize money).
To become a Scottish Branch 200 Club member (you don’t have to be a Scottish Branch member or even an NVS member......friends and family can buy a ticket to support us). You can do so by filling in your entry form and sending it to Gareth Cameron or if you don’t have one, please just give Gareth a shout and he will help you out. (Gareth’s contact details for your
information mail: 2 Dyke Nook, Yeathouse Road, Frizington, Cumbria 07935 117 397 or email: garethattheplot@hotmail.co.uk
Thanks again to Gareth for managing this worthy fundraising.
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