4 October 2021 – East Lancashire Online plant talk: Richard Green, ‘China – Beyond the crowds’
5 October 2021 – Shropshire In-person meeting: Alan Oatway, ‘Gardening in South Lakeland’
7 October 2021 – Dorset In-person meeting: Tim Ingram, ‘Alpines and Perennials for dry gardens’
8 October 2021 – Chiltern In-person meeting: Rupert Wheeler, ‘Red centre of Australia’
9 October 2021 – AGS Show at Harlow Carr
9 October 2021 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Keith Bankier, ‘Flowers of Turkey’
10 October 2021 – Wirral & West Cheshire In-person meeting: Samantha Hope, ‘Cape of New Experiences’
11 October 2021 – Seed Exchange donations deadline
11 October 2021 – East Cheshire in-person meeting: Colin Hickman, ‘Agapanthus and Nerines’
13 October 2021 – Oxford in-person meeting: Jim Jermyn, ‘The Dolomites – A Gardener’s Paradise’
13 October 2021 – East Kent in-person meeting: Paul Spracklin, ‘Gardening with succulents – how to use cacti and succulents as landscape subjects’
14 October 2021 – Online plant talk: Ian Young, ‘Troughs’
16 October 2021 – West Yorkshire in-person meeting: AGM & members’ talk
21 October 2021 – Devon-Exeter in-person meeting: Jon Evans, ‘Blackthorn Nursery January to May’
23 October 2021 – AGS Show at Hyde Hall
28 October 2021 – Hampshire group Online plant talk: Jim Almond, ‘Alpines for everyone’
2 November 2021 – Shropshire In-person meeting: Tim Lever, ‘Within Sight of Snowdonia: At home with Alpines‘
4 November 2021 – Dorset In-person meeting: Lady Christine Skelmersdale, ‘Winter is not just Snowdrops!’
8 November 2021 – East Lancashire, Online plant talk: Anne Spiegel, ‘Gardening on rocks – a tale of two gardens’
10 November 2021 – Oxford in-person meeting: Tom Freeth, ‘The Alpine Houses of Kew’
10 November 2021 – East Kent In-person meeting: Colin Moat, ‘Fifty Greys of Shade’
12 November 2021 – Chiltern In-person meeting: Andrew Cleave, ‘Orchids of Italy and Alpines in Bulgaria’
12 November 2021 – Wirral & West Cheshire In-person meeting: Propagation (speaker tbc)
13 November 2021 – Annual General Meeting
13 November 2021 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: John Dower, ‘Travels in the Peloponnese’
13 November 2021 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: Cliff Booker, ‘The cream of alpines’
15 November 2021 – East Cheshire In-person meeting: Anthony Goode, ‘A crocus for all seasons’
18 November 2021 – Online plant talk: Jim Almond, ‘Bulbs for year-round colour’
18 November 2021 – Devon-Exeter In-person meeting: Bob & Rannveig Wallis, ‘Kyrgyzstan: the land of the nomads‘
25 November 2021 – Hampshire In-person meeting: Tim Lever, ‘Jewels in the Rain’: Walking the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh’
2 December 2021 – Dorset In-person meeting: Richard Horswood, ‘Norway via Gothenburg Botanic Garden’
7 December 2021 – Shropshire In-person meeting: zoom talk streamed to Hall, David Morris, ‘Alpines of Kazach Tien Shan‘
8 December 2021 – Oxford in-person meeting: AGM and talk by Charles Shi on his experience at Kew
8 December 2021 – East Kent Online plant talk: Răzvan Chişu, ‘Romanian alpines’
9 December 2021 – Hampshire In-person meeting, quiz and members’ presentations
10 December 2021 – Chiltern In-person meeting: Paul Barney, ‘Ethiopian mountain plants’
10 December 2021 – Wirral & West Cheshire Christmas Members’ Meeting via Zoom
11 December 2021 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: David Charlton, ‘Flowers of the Dolomites and how to grow them’
11 December 2021 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: members’ photographs
13 December 2021 – East Lancashire, Online plants talk: Jim Jermyn, ‘European alpines in nature – a new look’
24 December 2021 – AGS Photographic Competition entry deadline
8 January 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Neil Huntley, ‘Alpines for troughs and raised beds’
12 January 2022 – Oxford in-person meeting: Members’ evening
12 January 2022 – East Kent Online plant talk: Harry Jans, ‘High Alpines on the Equator’
14 January 2022 – Chiltern Online plant talk: Timothy Walker (via Zoom) (tbc)
14 January 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire Online plant talk: Peter Williams, ‘The Backhouse dynasty’
27 January 2022 – Online plant talk: Dr. Adrian Cooper, ‘Climate Change and growing alpines’
3 February 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Tim Lever, ‘British alpines’
5 February 2022 – AGS Snowdrop day, Lillieshall Hall
9 February 2022 – Oxford in-person meeting: Adrian Young, ‘Alpines and Dwarf Conifers’
9 February 2022 – East Kent Online plant talk: Ian Young, ‘Bulb Log’
11 February 2022 – Chiltern Online plant talk: Harry Jans (via Zoom), ‘AGS plant hunting tour to Peru’
11 February 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire In-person meeting: Tim Baxter, ‘Alpine trees’
12 February 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Frank Hoyle, ‘Cultivating and killing cushions’
24 February 2022 – Online plant talk: Wim Boens, ‘Leucojum the lesser-known sister of Galanthus‘
9 March 2022 – Oxford in-person meeting: Razvan Chisu, ‘Romanian mountain plants’
11 March 2022 – Chiltern In-person meeting: Dr Adrian Cooper, ‘Growing alpine plants in UK gardens and alpine houses’
11 March 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire: Online plant talk: Cliff Booker, ‘Patagonia’
12 March 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Growing alpines (tbc)
24 March 2022 – Online plant talk: Dr. Christopher Grey-Wilson, ‘Pasque-flowers, the genus Pulsatilla’
8 April 2022 – Chiltern In-person meeting: Kerrie Porteous, ‘Switzerland and Slovenia, alpines and scenery’
8 April 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire: Local show (tbc)
9 April 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Home and away – garden and holiday members photos
13 April 2022 – Oxford in-person meeting: Tom King, ‘The Crocus and Galanthus collections at RHS Garden Wisley’
28 April 2022 – Online plant talk: John Dower, ‘Miniature gardens’
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
For a calendar of past events click here.
AGS display at Tatton 2021