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- 2008 Events
- Great Northern Carnation Society 2008 show Report
- Harrogate 08
- VISIT TO HIGHGROVE HOUSE - HOME OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL
- Bakewell Show 08
- Harrogate Great Yorkshire Show – 2008
- June Show 2008 report
- Lady Salisbury at the June Show
- Pinks and Carnations Day 2008
- BNCS visit to Southview Nursery 2008
- Chelsea 2008
- Westminster Show report 2007
- BNCS Carnation World Championship
- Harrogate Autumn 2007 Show Report
- Southport Show 2007
- Notts Carnation Show
- Allwoods visit 2007
- BNCS at Gardeners World Birmingham
- BNCS AGM Report 2007
- PF's at The Royal Welsh Show 2007
- Floral Art at Westminster
- Behind the scenes at Westminster
- Visit to Whetmans nursery 2006 report
- 2005 Show Reports by Neville Smith
- The Annual General Meeting 2006
BNCS at Gardeners World Birmingham
Gardeners World Live at the NEC Birmingham on the 13-17 June celebrated 40 years of the Gardeners World TV programme, from Percy Thrower to Monty Don, You may have seen the celebratory garden designed by Joe Swift on TV.
Our presence at the show was a stall among the other specialist plant societies set up by Joy Hayward and friends with reference back to 1967, the events and in the case of carnations a plant, STORM introduced in that year, which aroused a lot of interest.
Rain on several of the days ‘damped down’ the number of visitors but we still gained a few new members and answered cultural and historical questions (granddad always grew a few carnations!!) on our favourite plants. As usual every visitor bent down to smell the flowers and marvelled at the fragrance of the pinks and were disappointed that the PFs were fragrance free.
A thank you must go to Joy and all who helped over the 6 days of the show, the setting up and the taking down.