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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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  • October 2024

    1 October 2024 – Shropshire Tony Goode ‘The Four Seasons’

    2 October 2024 – Derby Cliff Booker ‘Ranunculus for the Garden’

    3 October 2024Dorset Richard Horswood, ‘European alpine plants of rocks and screes’

    3 October 2024South Devon Robin Hill ‘50 years gardening on Dartmoor’

    3 October 2024West Surrey Martyn Denney, ‘Cyclamen in the wild and in cultivation’

    5 October 2024 – AGS Hexham Show & Plant Fair

    9 October 2024 – Oxford & District Kurt Vickery, ‘Georgia and the Caucasus’

    10 October 2024North Wales David Rankin, ‘Poles Apart – Mountain Flowers of Chile and China’

    11 October 2024West Cheshire David Rankin, ‘New Zealand: mountains and coasts of three islands’

    12 October 2024 – AGS Harlow Carr Show & Plant Fair

    12 October 2024Mid Anglia Julian Sutton, ‘A plantsman’s Guide to the American West’ (at 2.15pm)

    12 October 2024South Lancashire John Dixon, ‘Alpine workshop’

    14 October 2024East Cheshire Ossian Thiery ‘The Firs Botanical Garden of Manchester’

    17 October 2024North Lancashire Diane Clement ‘Along the Silk Road in Kyrgyzstan’

    18 October 2024Bristol Mickey Little ‘Bulbs and their Selection’

    21 October 2024Warwickshire  Ian Young: ‘Nature – Gardeners’ Tutor’  Zoom lecture with East Lancs Group

    22 October 2024AGS Zoom Lecture Harry Jans ‘A trip to Peru’

    24 October 2024Hampshire Dr Timothy Walker, ‘A Life in Plants’

    26 October 2024Norfolk Jon Evans, ‘The Picos de Europa’

    31 October 2024Essex Adrian Cooper, ‘Rock gardens’

  • November 2024

    5 November 2024 – Shropshire Jon Evans ‘Plants of the Chalk’

    6 November 2024 – Derby Short talks by members and auction

    7 November 2024Dorset Carolyne Seymour, ‘Czech alpine gardens’

    7 November 2024South Devon Kurt Vickery ‘Georgia & the Caucasus’

    7 November 2024West Surrey Chloe Bidwell, ‘Alpine cacti’

    8 November 2024West Cheshire Peter Grimshaw, ‘Soil – benefits of woodchip on soil health’

    9 November 2024 – Annual General Meeting at Pershore College, Christopher Grey-Wilson ‘Picos de Europa, a jewel in the mountains of Northern Spain’

    9 November 2024North Wales David Charlton, ‘Flowers of the Pyrenees’

    9 November 2024South Lancashire Peter Grimshaw, ‘Secrets from the woodpile’

    13 November 2024 – Oxford & District John Anderson ‘Alpines and Woodland Plants at Windsor’

    15 November 2024Bristol Peter Hilton ‘In my Father’s Footsteps (Cascades and Rocky Mountains)’

    18 November 2024East Cheshire Razvan Chisu ‘Alpine Quiz’

    21 November 2024North Lancashire David Charlton ‘Mountain Flowers and Rock gardens from Oregan to Alaska’

    23 November 2024Norfolk AGM & Social – Plus a short illustrated talk

    25 November 2024Mid Anglia AGM and members talks (at 11am)

    26 November 2024AGS Zoom Lecture John Mitchell ‘A trip to China’

    28 November 2024Essex Jon Evans, ‘Wildside Garden’

    28 November 2024Hampshire Diane Clement, ‘Japan – the narrow road to the distant north’

  • December 2024

    3 December 2024 – Shropshire Ian and Carole Bainbridge ‘Starting out again’

    4 December 2024 – Derby Samantha Hopes ‘Plants with a story’

    5 December 2024Dorset Members evening with cakes and wine

    5 December 2024South Devon Christine Skelmersdale ‘Cinderellas to stars, and bulbs for shady areas: Hellebores, cyclamen, trilliums and Erythroniums’

    5 December 2024West Surrey Christmas Meeting

    9 December 2024East Cheshire Diane Clement ‘Alpines in the wild and cultivation’

    11 December 2024 – Oxford & District AGM & Emma Thick ‘The ongoing trials of managing a Galanthus collection and all that it entails’

    12 December 2024Hampshire Zoom seasonal meeting

    13 December 2024 West Cheshire Christmas Members’ Evening

    14 December 2024South Lancashire Alan Oatway, ‘Gardening in south Lakeland’

    15 December 2024Mid Anglia Lucy Skellorn ‘My Family and Other Irises’

    17 December 2024AGS Zoom Lecture: Michael Myers ‘Snowdrops before Christmas’

    19 December 2024North Lancashire AGM

    20 December 2024Bristol Christmas meeting

  • January 2025

    8 January 2025 – Oxford & District Members evening

    9 January 2025East Surrey Razvan Chisu, ‘Confessions of a plantaholic’ (Zoom)

    9 January 2025South Devon Julian Sutton ‘Texas 101’ and Christmas meal.

    10 January 2025West Cheshire Ian Young, ‘Woodland bulbs’ (Zoom)

    14 January 2025Norfolk Alan Oatway,  ‘Mountain Flowers of Northern Italy’

    16 January 2025North Lancashire D. Beattie ‘The Interaction Between Flora and Wildlife in the Cuerden Valley’

    20 January 2025East Cheshire Cliff Booker ‘Definitive Dolomites’

    23 January 2025Hampshire Zoom Bob Wallis, TBA

    28 January 2025AGS Zoom Lecture

  • 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.

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

    11 February 2025AGS Zoom Lecture

    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 Graham Poynter, ‘Cyprus – flowers of a divided island’

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

    27 February 2025Hampshire Zoom Richard Hodson, TBA

  • March 2025

    4 March 2025 – Shropshire Samantha Hopes ‘Hellebores’

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

    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

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

    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’

    23 April 2025Hampshire AGM

    25 April 2025Bristol Richard Lambert ‘Cushion Plants’

    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

    16 May 2025Bristol Helen Mugridge ‘Bulgarian Wildlife’

    19 May 2025East Cheshire AGM & Plant Show

    28 May 2025Hampshire TBA

  • June 2025

    17 June 2025East Surrey Liz Livermore ‘The Burren’

  • July 2025

    6 July 2025 West Cheshire Plant Fair

  • August 2025

    TBA

  • September 2025

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

  • October 2025

    13 October 2025East Cheshire Samantha Hopes TBC

  • November 2025

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

    18 November 2025East Surrey Group AGM

  • 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