4 May 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Neil Huntley, ‘Primulas’
5 May 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Julia Corden, ‘Favourite Alpines from Around the World’
9 May 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘The narrow road to the deep north: travels in Japan’
10 May 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: John Fielding, ‘Why can we grow so many Mediterranean plants in the UK?’
13 May 2022 – Chiltern in-person meeting: Richard Green, ‘China beyond the crowds’
13 May 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire: AGM including a walk at Ness.
14 May 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Mini Show
14 May 2022 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: AGS & Group spring show
17 May 2022 – East Surrey In-person meeting: Bob Charman, ‘Kyrgyzstan and the Roof of the World’
18 May 2022 – Mid-Kent In-person meeting: Ray Drew, ‘Cypripedium at Ditton’
18 May 2022 – Somerset Garden visits to East Lambrook Manor and Avon Bulbs
20 May 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Group Show & AGM followed by member’s talk
20 May 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Dick Fulcher & Richard Horswood ’I do it My Way’ (Propagation and Troughs)’
21 May 2022 – Mid Anglia – Garden visit
25 May 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Celia Wright, ‘From High Mountains to Long Mountain’
26 May 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Doug Joyce, ‘Bardfield Oxlips’
26 May 2022 – Hampshire In-person meeting: Colin Everett, ‘Growing Fritillaria What I Do and Why’. Photographic Competition Results. The Margaret Hedges Trophy for the photographic competition winner.
28 May 2022 – Norfolk In person meeting: Kit Strange, ‘Alpines of the Western Pacific Coast of the USA’
1 June 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Mini Show & Social evening
6 June 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Andrew Mayo, ‘Discovering downunder – from alpines of Victoria to the spectacular south-west’
14 June 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: Matt Purkis, ‘Wildlife gardening’
15 June 2022 – Mid-Kent Garden visit
16 June 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Trevor Wiltshire, ‘The Rock Garden at Wisley’
21 June 2022 – East Surrey In-person meeting: Alex O’Sullivan, ‘An AGS Intern’s Adventures in Growing and Showing Alpines’
30 June 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Dr Richard Rolf, ‘Argentina’
2 July 2022 – Norfolk In person meeting: Liz Livermore, ‘Chile, a Botanical Adventure’
4 July 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: outdoor event
6 July 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Cheese & Wine Evening at a venue TBA – contact secretary for further details.
19 July 2022 – East Surrey In-person meeting: Diane Clement,‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Travels in Japan’
20 July 2022 – Mid-Kent In-person meeting: Dr. Adrian Cooper, ‘Growing alpines and climate change’
21 July 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: garden party
27 July 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Summer Social Springdale, Smeatharpe (provisional date)
28 July 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Tom Freeth, ‘Alpines at Kew’
1 August 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Tim Ingram, ‘Alpines and perennials for dry gardens’
13 August 2022 – Norfolk Garden Visit
16 August 2022 – East Surrey In-person meeting: Dr. Keith Ferguson
25 August 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘A Seedy Business’
1 September 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Tim Lever, ‘Within sight of Snowdonia . At home with Alpines’
5 September 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Tony Goode, ‘Hillary’s view (Vaud Alps)’
10 September 2022 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: John Mitchell, ‘Travels around the world’
10 September 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘Alpines in the wild and in cultivation’
13 September 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: AGM
15 September 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: The Roger Stuckey Memorial Lecture Christopher Bailes, ‘Andean Adventures’
19 September 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Julian Sutton, ‘The secret life of bulbs and corms’
24 September 2022 – Norfolk In-person meeting: Christopher Grey-Wilson, ‘The three mountains’
28 September 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Kurt Vickery, ‘A bulb hunter’s favourite weeds’
29 September 2022 – Essex In person meeting: John Amand, ‘Bulbs and how they get to your garden’
6 October 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Julian Sutton, ‘Making sense of the Iridaceae’
8 October 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Annual Show
8 October 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Celia Wright, ‘Orchids of the Mediterranean’
17 October 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Peter Williams, ‘Cold and frost-free greenhouse gardening’
20 October 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Jonathan Webster, ‘Rosemoor and its Plant Delights’
22 October 2022 – TBA
26 October 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Chris Lovell, ‘Morocco through bulbous eyes’
27 October 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Mike Sullivan, ‘Hybridisation of Saxifrages, Lewisias & Correas’
3 November 2022 – Dorset In person meeting: Bob & Rannveig Wallis, ‘Maintenance of a bulb collection’
12 November 2022 – AGS Annual General Meeting
12 November 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Neil Huntley, ‘Alpines for troughs and raised beds’
15 November 2022 – East Surrey In person meeting: AGM & Members talk
16 November 2022 – Mid-Kent In-person meeting: Mark Oddy, ‘Chilean alpines’
17 November 2022 – Devon Exeter In person meeting: Tom Freeth, ‘The Rock Garden at RGB Kew’
21 November 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Samantha Hopes, ‘Top 100 plants’
23 November 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Members Evening
24 November 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Jon Evans, ‘Wildflowers moving off the chalk’
26 November 2022 – Norfolk In person meeting: Tim Lever, ‘Jewels in the rain’
1 December 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Members’ question time
8 December 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Seed Exchange, Grand Raffle & Christmas Party
9 December 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Keith Bankier, ‘Exploring Azerbaijan in search of the flowers of the Talysh and Lower Caucasus’
10 December 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Cliff Booker, ‘From Zion to Neon: An American road trip’
14 December 2022 – Mid-Kent In-person meeting: AGM
14 December 2022 – Somerset Christmas Social (provisional date)
21 December 2022 – Norfolk AGM & Christmas Social (1pm – 4pm)
Visitors admiring plants at the 2022 East Lancashire AGS Show