The raffle was drawn at the show on Saturday but unfortunately none of the winners were present. All were sent, and should now have received, their prizes. We want to say thank you to all who took part. The prize winners, who were announced at the show, were: 1st Ticket No. 05642 Brian Quantrill of ...

If you are planning to enter in the National show please remember that your entry MUST reach MIke Stansbie by THURSDAY AUGUST 11th. Entries will not be accepted after that date for any reason.

David KIrkbright, Society Treasurer
On behalf of the Shows Committee

Hi Ambrose, My plant is currently about to flower but unfortunately I am in Milton Keynes, about 100 miles from you. IMGP8796_resize.JPG I did previously flower a plant (which I subsequently lost in the hard winter of 2010) and that time it set seed while being the only one around. As I keep it out ...

Great to hear that Stan & Vicki and Brian got golds and that the SA stand did also. Great shame that out of around 20 hours of coverage by the Beeb only a few moments even mentioned C&S and that none of these three gold medals were even mentioned. I think coverage of C&S hit an all time ...

Very sorry to have lost him and I can only echo the thoughts already given.
Unfortunately I, and many other likely attendees at the funeral, will be on one of two continental nursery coach trips as from Thursday 17th so will be unable to attend. Please give our apologies.

Hi Ian, Great to see that the areas you visited still had very viable populations. However what at first appeared to be a problem with poaching in David's article leading to decline in the population, might actually be something else - the plants he saw may well be the establishment of new plants as...

Thank you to all the individuals, branches and special interest groups who have sponsored classes at the National Show.
I am pleased to say that ALL classes have now been covered and have sponsors.

All you have to do now is turn up on August 20th.

AS of Friday February 26th we only have 5 classes left requiring sponsors.

Passing of Tom Jenkins [/size][/b] It is with great sadness that I advise of the passing of Tom Jenkins on Sunday, 14th February 2016. Tom is remembered with great fondness as a specialist nurseryman at Jumanery Nursery and a knowledgeable speaker on wide-ranging subjects about both cacti and other...

Most cheques were not banked until the end of this week as the distributor has been working on seeds rather than banking.