Terry, in my new role as Chairman I intend to try and address a lot of the issues that you have highlighted and many of the points you have raised I have already started to address with my vision of the future. Unless we do something to attract the next generation of succulent plant enthusiasts soon...

It is a very good weekend and I have to agree with Stuart that its probably for the company, lectures and car boot that I and most of the members attend. It is intended to instruct and help all members interested in showing and judging to become more aware of what is needed at shows. It also means t...

BCSS JUDGES COURSE - Moulton College nr Northampton- 31st August - 2nd September If you are interested in all aspects of showing your plants, there are still spaces available on the 2018 Judges Course. This is a very social weekend set in new updated facilities with all meals and accommodation inclu...

so you would be stupid not to join the society for all the extra's that I have started to negotiate. I was already ahead of stupidity and joined earlier this month. Bad choice of words - now amended. :grin: What I meant was I want to put together a benefits package (offered by external parties) tha...

Thanks all for your support. I really don't want to change the society but I do intend to broaden its appeal and encourage a new generation to appreciate our plants and more importantly our society. We get probably the best journal in the world but I intend to put together a much broader membership ...

Thank you. I will be writing a piece for the June journal so I won't go into lots of details here but will say that I love this hobby and want to do all I can to promote the hobby and in particular this society. We produce probably the best journal in the word but I want to offer the membership more...

I wonder - was any attempt made to get TV or other media coverage of the National? given that we have two high profile media patrons. It did get some media coverage as one of our patrons (Anne Swithinbank) managed to get some material recorded at the show broadcast on Gardener's Question Time I spo...

I believe the better course of action is to support local branch and zone shows and use these as practice grounds for the National every 4 years. Branch shows to my mind should be the focal point of the branch calendar and can be such fun. If you don't already have a show why not think about starti...

I am pleased that everyone enjoyed the show. Its not so much the organisation of the show that limits it to every 4 years but more the case of how can we fit it in. The convention is now every 4 years and two years apart from the National so we would not want to clash with that. If we had the show m...

The list of prize winners is available here - http://society.bcss.org.uk/index.php/national-show.html

Its taken quite a while to verify but its now all done.

Good request Geoff.

Cheers
Ian