Eighth International Rock Garden Conference, 2011
Alpines without Frontiers
The 8th International Rock Garden Conference will take place in Nottingham at the
East Midlands Conference Centre from Thursday, 14 April to Sunday, 17 April 2011. The Conference Centre has excellent facilities with regard to both space, as well as audio and projection equipment.
Assisted places are available for students or individuals who are on horticultural courses or who have embarked upon a career in horticulture within the last ten years.
For application forms, or Online Booking, go to: 2011 Conference Booking
Provisional Programme
There will be a one-day show at the Conference venue on Saturday 16 April.
Biographies of the speakers can be found by clicking on the names in the program below.
Thursday 14 April 2011
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15.00-16.00
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Registration
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16.00-16.30
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Tea
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16.30-17.30
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Welcome & Opening Lecture-Brian Mathew: provisional title ‘Ever-changing Frontiers: of all sorts!’
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19.30 onwards
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Dinner
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David Haselgrove ‘ Southern Hemisphere Treats’
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Friday 15 April 2011
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09.00-10.00
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Harry Jans ‘Plant Hunting on the Roof of the World’
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10.00-11.00
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John Richards ‘Asiatic Primulas Old and New’
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee
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11.30-12.30
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Martin Walsh ‘The High and Low in the Himalaya’
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12.50-14.15
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Lunch
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13.30-15.00
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WORKSHOPS
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15.00-16.00
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Toshio Yoshida ‘Endemism in the Sino-Himalayan Alpines'
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16.00-16.30
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Tea
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16.30-17.30
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Henrik Zetterlund 'Beyond the Last Frontiers with Jim Archibald'
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19.30 onwards
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Dinner
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Robert Rolfe ‘Location, Location Location: Alpines Near and Far, Narrowly Endemic and Nationalistic'
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Saturday 16 April 2011
There will be a one-day National AGS/SRGC Show all day.
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09.00-10.00
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Keith Wiley ‘An Holistic Approach to Alpines in the Garden’
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10.00-11.00
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Todd Boland ‘Alpine Plants of Newfoundland through to the Appalachians’
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee
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11.30-12.30
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Bob Wallis ‘Fritillaries on Four Continents’
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12.50-14.15
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Lunch
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13.30-15.00
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Free Time (to allow opportunity to see Show)
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15.00-16.00
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John Good ‘Alpines in a changing world’
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16.00-16.30
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Tea
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16.30-17.30
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John Watson ‘Three decades in the Andes’
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19.30 onwards
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Dinner
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Roy Lancaster ‘My world of Plants’
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Plant Auction
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Sunday 17 April 2011
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09.00-10.00
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Ian Young ‘Highland Gathering’
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10.00-11.00
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Michael Kammerlander ‘Juno Iris – the Persica Group and Some Others’
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee
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11.30-12.30
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John Grimshaw ‘Giants and Dwarfs: the Alpines of Africa’
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12.50-14.15
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Lunch
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13.30-15.00
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Workshops
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15.00-16.00
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Vojtech Holubec ‘Central Asia: Plants under burning sun and cooling snow’
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16.00-16.30
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Tea
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15.00-16.00
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Christopher Grey-Wilson ‘A Lifetime of Alpines’
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Online Booking is Available: 2011 Conference Online Booking