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See below details of events and important dates in the AGS calendar. For full details of timings, venues and contacts, click on the links in each event.
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  • February 2025

    4 February 2025Shropshire AGM

    6 February 2025East Surrey Jim Almond, ‘Springtime in New England’ (Zoom)

    6 February 2025South Devon Visit to Helen Brown Little Ash, Fenny Bridges, Honiton for a snowdrop walk.

    8 February 2025West Yorkshire Paul Cumbleton ‘Alpines & orchids’ ZOOM

    10 February 2025East Cheshire Ben Preston ‘Cliff Bank Nursery – a new chapter’

    11 February 2025AGS Zoom Lecture

    12 February 2025East Kent Toby Shuall (Zophian Plants) ‘Mediterranean Plants and Sand’

    12 February 2025 Oxford & District Tom Freeth ‘The Early Flowering Flora of Spain’

    14 February 2025West Cheshire Rodney Wright & Peter Cunnington, A Practical Demonstration (details to follow)

    18 February 2025East Surrey this event has been cancelled due to venue refurbishment works

    20 February 2025North Lancashire Peter Grimshaw ‘Secrets from the Woodchip Pile’

    22 February 2025Bedfordshire Alice Hunter ‘Islands in the Med’

    27 February 2025Hampshire Zoom Richard Hodson, TBA

  • March 2025

    4 March 2025 – Shropshire Samantha Hopes ‘Hellebores’

    6 March 2025Bedfordshire & Mid Anglia Cliff Booker Zion to Neon – An American Road Trip’ (Zoom)

    6 March 2025South Devon Richard Horswood ‘Southern France and Spain’

    8 March 2025West Yorkshire Tony Goode ‘Bulbs for all Seasons’

    12 March 2025East Kent Ed Flint ‘Climbers and Wall Shrubs’

    12 March 2025Oxford & District Tony Goode ‘Bulbs for All Seasons’

    13 March 2025North Lancashire David Rankin ‘Kanchenjunga from three sides’

    14 March 2025 West Cheshire David Charlton, ‘Flowers of the Picos de Europa’

    17 March 2025East Cheshire Michael Myers ‘Dwarf Bulbs’

    18 March 2025AGS Zoom Lecture

    18 March 2025East Surrey David Dickenson, ‘A tour around my rock’

    21 March 2025Bristol Diane Clement ‘Alpines in the Wild and in Cultivation’

    27 March 2025Hampshire Melvin Jope, ‘Galanthus and Companion plants in Greece

    29 March 2025Bedfordshire Paul Spracklin ‘Adventures in Mexico

  • April 2025

    1 April 2025 – Shropshire Julian Sutton ‘Adventures with Fancy Foliage’

    3 April 2025South Devon Members show and Plant Display followed by the AGM

    9 April 2025East Kent Adrian Cooper ‘Experiments with Desert and Dryland Species’

    9 April 2025 Oxford & District David Rankin ‘The Rocky Road to Chelsea’

    12 April 2025West Yorkshire Peter Williams ‘The Root Zone – the original dark web!’

    13 April 2025 West Cheshire Local Show

    15 April 2025East Surrey Jon Evans ‘Plant hunting in Southern England – moving off the chalk’

    17 April 2025North Lancashire Frank Hoyle ‘The future is propagation’

    24 April 2025Hampshire AGM & Julian Sutton ‘Beneath the Trees’

    25 April 2025Bristol Richard Lambert ‘Cushion Plants’

    26 April 2025Bedfordshire Bruce Bennett ‘Alpines in the Kew Alpine House’

    28 April 2025East Cheshire Andrew Ward ‘Sand beds’

    29 April 2025AGS Zoom Lecture

  • May 2025

    1 May 2025South Devon Garden Visit

    6 May 2025 – Shropshire Alan Oatway ‘Plant Hunting in Bhutan’

    9 May 2025 West Cheshire Garden visit and AGM

    10 May 2025West Yorkshire AGM, Group Spring Show & short talk

    14 May 2024East Kent TBA

    16 May 2025Bristol Helen Mugridge ‘Bulgarian Wildlife’

    19 May 2025East Cheshire AGM & Plant Show

    28 May 2025Hampshire David Hazelgrove ‘Plant Hunting in Tibet- from Lijiang to Lhasa’

    31 May 2025Bedfordshire Andrew Mayo ‘Kurdish Mountains – Azerbaijan and Eastern Turkey’

  • June 2025

    17 June 2025East Surrey Liz Livermore ‘The Burren’

  • July 2025

    6 July 2025 West Cheshire Plant Fair

    26 July 2025Bedfordshire Diane Clement ‘A Year in the Life of an Alpine Gardener’

  • August 2025

    TBA

  • September 2025

    15 September 2025East Cheshire Don Witton ‘Late herbaceous perennials’

    16 September 2025East Surrey Graham Poynter ‘Cyprus – Flowers of a Divided Island’

    20 September 2025Bedfordshire TBA

  • October 2025

    13 October 2025East Cheshire Samantha Hopes TBC

    25 October 2025Bedfordshire AGM

  • November 2025

    17 November 2025East Cheshire David Charlton ‘Flowers of the Picos’

    18 November 2025East Surrey Group AGM

    22 November 2025Bedfordshire Bob and Rannveig Wallis ‘Kyrgyzstan – Land of Nomads’

  • December 2025

    8 December 2025East Cheshire Marian Goody ‘Fronds, fernlets and fancies’

Visitors admiring plants at the East Lancashire AGS Show

Visitors admiring plants at the 2022 East Lancashire AGS Show