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[gardenofeden]

After a break of a couple of years (during which I unsuccessfully tried to move house!) I am having an open day this year.

It is on Saturday 7th July, 12pm till 5pm.

This is primarliy a CPS open day, but all forum members are welcome too!

[3Star]

This just happens to be my wife's birthday ...............................................................now I wonder where I could take her for a nice day out ?

[Tarek]

You mean you opening nursery or i don`t understand something? :)

[gardenofeden]

This is part of the Carnivorous Plant Society events programme. Members open their collections for a day for other members to come and visit, buy & swap plants, swap growing tips and general chit-chat. It is mainly private gardens and greenhouses, not nurseries, but some of the nurseries do this as well.

[ada]

Nice one Stephen, I'll be there with a little plant for you
Will the legendary lemon cake be there? or is Victoria too busy with 3 children?
ada

[davew.1]

gardenofeden, on 24 February 2012 - 14:11 PM, said:

After a break of a couple of years (during which I unsuccessfully tried to move house!) I am having an open day this year.

It is on Saturday 7th July, 12pm till 5pm.

This is primarliy a CPS open day, but all forum members are welcome too!

pleased you are back  i enjoy your day  From Dave walker Hartlepool

[blueflytrap]

Stephen,

One of my favourite open days......Hoping to be there on the day!

Warmest regards

[littlephatty]

hoping to be there - been a couple of years out of it for me too...good to get back into the swing of things!! :o)

Leigh

[Flytyer]

I'll try to be there too  

No real point in bringing swapsies (unless for other people), a lot of my plants came from you anyway  

[Carnivine]

what is your address? I can find no detailed listing anywhere for the cps 2012 events. The events listing on the cps website is for LAST YEAR would ou believe. Cheers.

[Ian Salter]

Carnivine, on 25 April 2012 - 17:41 PM, said:

what is your address? I can find no detailed listing anywhere for the cps 2012 events. The events listing on the cps website is for LAST YEAR would ou believe. Cheers.

Hi.
The old website has become practically unuseable, there is however an all new website in the making due out very soon.
There has been posted a full events diary in the open days and events section of this forum.
Other than that you can contact the host of any advertised open day for details.
Regards Ian.

[Peabody]

I am hoping to get along seeing as I live only about 25 miles away - but I need to know an address !

[Flytyer]

One week to go  

Been digging down the sides of the sofa to find money, have now accumulated £1.27p, three washers and a fluffy Werther's Original  

[gardenofeden]

that should get you a few Drosera capensis at least!


Open Day is still go, cannot promise the weather will be any good though!  You may need to bring wellies if it is wet as my soil is heavy clay!

Sarracenias are looking good, slightly floppy from lack of sun but what can you do.... VFTs are awful most of them have still not recovered fully from using that Westland insecticide last year!

Cephalotus are OK, not very well coloured though, hoping for better colour in the autumn, Eden Black not looking very dark at all yet, but growing well! Perhaps letting them flower and seed profusely last year has affected it, but probably just the crappy summer!

I will have several Eden Black cuttings for sale at my open day, £75 each.

Victoria has promised me some lemon drizzle cake, so there's something to look forward to at least.


See you all then. If anyone still needs directions please message or email me.

[Amar]

Lemon drizzle?

Sounds like a medical affliction of older men.

[Flytyer]

gardenofeden, on 30 June 2012 - 14:02 PM, said:

that should get you a few Drosera capensis at least!

Well that's the fluffy Werther's Original spent  

There is one plant I am particularly interested in though  

[0rmus]

How easy / hard would it be to get to the open day via public transport? Is there a near by bus / train station? I would be coming from Manchester and can get to York City Centre via train.

[Richard Bunn]

If you bring plants for him make sure you put GPS on the label so he can find them when he loses them. (I really need to let this one go now.)

[gardenofeden]

0rmus, on 30 June 2012 - 23:11 PM, said:

How easy / hard would it be to get to the open day via public transport? Is there a near by bus / train station? I would be coming from Manchester and can get to York City Centre via train.

not the easiest, nearest train station is york, but there are 3 or 4 buses a day to Fangfoss from both Stamford bridge and Pocklington which are the nearest 2 towns, both of which are about 5 miles away, and both of which have regular buses from York.  we could arrange to pick you up from either of these locations if you can get a bus from York, Stamford bridge preferred, its only a 10min drive

[0rmus]

Thanks Stephen.  Very kind of you to offer a lift from the nearest town.  I had a look into the buses and getting to Stamford bridge from York train station. It’s as simple as jumping on the number 10 bus outside the station.

As much as I would like to attend the open day I’ve found out I may have to work that day. To ensure I don’t muck anyone about with lifts and such I’ll just say I won’t be attending this time round. Pretty gutted as i was hoping to 'see how its done'. Sure i could have learned a lot being a newbie.

Edited by 0rmus, 02 July 2012 - 16:57 PM.