The 2012 National Thread

[Bill]

So we dont end up with National overkill this is the place to post your National pictures discussions etc.

The view now:

Dont forget to come and say hello and collect your badge.

Some very empty sales tables, which will look very different in a few hours

Equally empty show tables with Eddy Harris and David Kirkbright

Lots of space to be filled

[Phil_SK]

I like the prickly little character on the banner. Does s/he have a name?

[Tony R]

I like the prickly little character on the banner. Does s/he have a name?

Must be Bill.I.am (aka Hildyard)

[Bill]

No, perhaps we'll have to have a competition or something.

He was designed by Heather N's daughter Anna.

[Bill]

I like the prickly little character on the banner. Does s/he have a name?

Must be Bill.I.am (aka Hildyard)

As it happens I was Will I am, before Will.I.Am was born.

[Phil_SK]

It's taken me several minutes to get the connection between the Roman garb and 'forum'.

[Aiko]

I wish we have an event like this up here.

The ELK is the only succulent event that I have ever visited that can compete with the enormous amount of tables and large space I see on these pictures.

[Bill]

Filling up now.

Something for the followers of this months Genus of the Month.

Made in Sheffield and our very own Lithos

Show plants arriving

[Peter Cupial-Jones]

I like the prickly little character on the banner. Does s/he have a name?

Must be Bill.I.am (aka Hildyard)

Now that I do like!!

Hopefully see some of you guys tomorrow

[Clarke Brunt]

I'm back home, being lucky enough to not be too far away (near Cambridge). I got my sales table set up - more plants fitted on than I thought, so not too many stashed behind to be brought up later (there are quite a few more leafless Massonia bulbs which obviously don't make much of a display!). I've selected a couple of plants from the greenhouse that someone asked if he could have. So finally time for a few beers; watch the cricket highlights; feed the various tame garden birds; see whether anyone's at home in the swift nestbox (they are still, a couple of weeks after most young have fledged and set off for Africa); and prepare to be boiled-alive tomorrow after rather a hot day today.

Oh - and met Bill Hildyard at the forum stand. Maybe I'll buy a badge tomorrow. Come and say hello anyway.