Welcome to Northumberland and Durham Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society web site.
This web site will contain photographs and information provided by our members.
It will also provide information regarding forth coming meetings and events such as lectures,slideshows,exibitions ,plant sales and of course the Autumn show
held annually at COWELL'S GARDEN CENTRE.
The Society was established in 1965 and we still have some of the original members:
STAN HALL & STAN HUGHES...(stan hughes is our president).
The aim of the site is to give an insight on the growing of cultivars to show standard by displaying pictures submitted by our fellow members.
To contribute to this site contact me on the
contact page.
About Us...a little info on our society
CHARLIE RUTHERFORD....CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY.
LOCATION
Our monthley meetings are held at The Northumberland Piper in Fawdon close ,Fawdon,NE3 2AH
These meetings are normally held on a monday night and will feature a talk or a
slide show by local and national growers.
The next meeting will be held on the
25th january and will feature a slide show.Click here for more info and directions
GALLERY SECTION
The gallery section of the site has links to various slide- shows including pictures from 2008.
More recent pictures from this years show and members gardens are also featured.
Class winners from chrysanth,dahlia and best in show can be found here.
Below is a preview of some of the vegetable class winners including best leek in show
Move
1st place.d.clough.278.91cub
Class 1. 4th. Miss. D. Clough. 248.75 Cub. With Best Leak In Show.
Class,11 1Cucumber.1st G.Elliot 2nd j Grham.
Class 4 3 onions dressed 1st G Elliot 2nd R Rickerby 3rd P Kelly.
Class 5 2 heads of Celery 1st L Dodds well done less
Class 6 2carrots long.1st T Fisher 2nd T Fisher
last year we had plenty of photo's of dahlia's,here are a few of them.
Class.41,1st,G Elliot with Grenador Pastell,2nd,J.Snell,with Kenora sunrise
class 44.1vase 3blooms of small cactus or semi cactus- 1st J.w.Robson with Kiwi Glory
Class45
,1st 2nd 3rd,G.Elliot,with Rhonda Pop Willow and Red Carol.
MORE DAHLIAS HERE
This years project is
JOYCE FREDA-medium incurve.
3 friends have asked me for cuttings of Joyce Freda so i will be posting photos and info on their progress weekly/fort-nightly right up to the show bench(with a bit of luck)
i started on the 14th of december by putting the gas heater on,but due to little movement i placed the stools on top of the propagator on the 28th dec,the temperature varied between minus 1 and 6 degrees centigrade.
Due to the poor light levels introduced a 2ft flourescent tube and the gas bottle ran out after 3 weeks (would normally last 7)
First cutting on the 12th jan.The rooting material is 3 parts multi - purpose compost,1part grit and 1 part pearlite.
All cuttings are dipped in the rooting compound,20 to a half tray then placed in the propagator with the top set at a given temperature of 15 degrees C.
THIS WEEKS PHOTOS 26th January.
Shows a tray of Joyce Freda, lost six cutting through damping off. Propagator lid now removed
,Plants sprayed twice per day with fresh clean water. Temperature in greenhouse varies from 20c max-10c min,
18c in propagator . SEE MORE HERE
