Past events

1 October 2023 – AGS Bulb Day

2 October 2023 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Andrew Ward, ‘Sandbeds – How to grow tricky Alpines’

3 October 2023 – Shropshire Kevin Pratt, ‘Bulbs are not just for spring’

4 October 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Martyn Denney, ‘Cyclamen in the wild and in cultivation’

5 October 2023 – South Devon Hillary Little, ‘Australia – wild flowers and wallabies’

5 October 2023 – Dorset Gwyn Davies, ‘The history and development of the daffodil’

7 October 2023 – AGS Hexham Show & Plant Fair

8 October 2023 – Chesterfield & District Gill Fearn, Abbey Brook Nursery, ‘Plant Hunting in South Africa/Namibia’

10 October 2023 – Cleveland Helen Jones, ‘Plant Hunting in the Sangla Valley’

11 October 2023 – East Kent Tom Freeth, ‘Mountain Flora and Gardens of Colorado’

11 October 2023 – East Lancashire Keith Bankier,‘The Pontic Alps of North-East Turkey’

11 October 2023 – Oxford & District Samantha Hopes, ‘The French Alps’

12 October 2023 – North Wales Jon Evans, ‘Wildside garden’

13 October 2023 – Chiltern Bob Gibbons, ‘The floweriest places in the world’

13 October 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire Anthony Goode, ‘Over the Bernina Pass’

14 October 2023 – AGS Harlow Carr Show & Plant Fair

14 October 2023 – Lancashire – South Louise Hunter, ‘Alpines of Switzerland’

14 October 2023 – Mid Anglia Bob Gibbons, ‘In search of European alpines’

16 October 2023 – East Cheshire Jon Evans, ‘Wildside Garden’

16 October 2023 – Warwickshire Razvan Chisu, ‘Autumn in the Peloponnese’

17 October 2023 – AGS Zoom lecture Connor Smith, ‘Alpines at Utrecht Botanical Garden’

17 October 2023 – Surrey – East Lyn Miles, ‘For the love of snowdrops’

18 October 2023 – Kent – Mid J. Hughes, ‘Santiago – Chile’

18 October 2023 – South Wales Chris Lovell, ‘Morocco through bulbous eyes’

19 October 2023 – Devon – Exeter Micky Little, ‘Some Alpine bulbs and my time as a head gardener’

19 October 2023 – North Lancashire Michael Myers, ‘Choice woodland plants’

20 October 2023 – Bristol Richard Horswood, ‘Alpines in containers’

21 October 2023 – West Yorkshire David Charlton‘Flowers of the Picos de Europa’

23 October 2023 – East Lancashire (Zoom lecture) Hazel Taylor, Plants and animals of Western Cape – Part one

25 October 2023 – Somerset Jim Loring, ‘Chile’

26 October 2023 – Essex Julian Sutton, ‘Making sense of the Iridaceae’

26 October 2023 – Hampshire Bob & Rannveig Wallis, ‘Moorish Bulbs’ (covering trips to Andalucia and Morocco)

28 October 2023 – Bedfordshire David Livermore, ‘Russian Caucasus’

4 September 2023 – Bedfordshire Keith Bankier, ‘Cappadocia and inner Anatolia’

4 September 2023 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Tim Ingram, ‘Alsace’

6 September 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Vic Aspland, ‘A walk in a glacier valley’

5 September 2023 – Shropshire Jim Almond, ‘Propagation – a matter of life and death’

7 September 2023 – Mid Anglia Garden visit to Ulting Wick

7 September 2023 – Dorset David Haselgrove, ‘Flower hunting in Peru’

8 September 2023 – Chiltern Ray Broughton, ‘Alpine gardening and the cold greenhouse’

8 September 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire David Morris, ‘Swindale (Haweswater) Restoration Project’

9 September 2023 – Lancashire – South David Charlton, ‘African extremities’

9 September 2023 – West Yorkshire Diane Clement,‘Cyclamen and Hepaticas’

10 September 2023 – Chesterfield & District Diane Clement, ‘Japan, the Narrow Road to the Distant North’

12 September 2023 – Cleveland Michael Myers, ‘Primulas and Hepaticas’

13 September 2023 – East Kent AGM & Tim Ingram, ‘Of Gardens; from Logan to Abbotsbury’

13 September 2023 – East Lancashire John Dower, ‘Off-road in the Picos’

13 September 2023 – Oxford & District Paul Cumbleton, ‘Alluring alpines’

13 September 2023 – Norfolk Alice Hunter, TBA

13 September 2023 – South Wales Tony Goode, ‘Hilary’s view’

14 September 2023 – North Wales Celia Wright, ‘From high mountain to Long Mountain’

15 September 2023 – Bristol Richard Lambert, ‘Flowers of the Picos’

18 September 2023 – East Cheshire Diane Clement, ‘The narrow road to the deep north – Travels in Japan’

19 September 2023 – AGS Zoom lecture Anne Wright, ‘Miniature daffodils’

19 September 2023 – Surrey – East Bob & Rannveig Wallis, ‘Bulbous habitats’

20 September 2023 – Kent – Mid TBA

21 September 2023 – Devon – Exeter Christine Skelmersdale, ‘From Santiago to the Bolivian border. Plants, scenery and wildlife’ (The Roger Stuckey Memorial Lecture)

24 September 2023 – East Lancashire (Zoom lecture) Geir Moen, Cultivating rare and endangered alpines – a new and developing climate refuge project

27 September 2023 – Somerset Martyn Denney, ‘Japan’

28 September 2023 – Essex Julian Reed, ‘Pteridology – National collection of Polystichum and Polypodium –  revisited.

28 September 2023 – Hampshire Joe Sharman, ‘Cyclamen’

28 September 2023 – North Lancashire John Birks, ‘The History, Status and Future of British Mountain plants’

30 September 2023 – AGS Loughborough Show & Plant Fair

7 August 2023 – Bedfordshire David Haselgrove, ‘Spring and summer in South Africa’

20 August 2023 – Mid Anglia Plant and Bulb Sale at Pentlow Mill, Pentlow Lane,Cavendish, Sudbury,  Suffolk, CO10 7SP from 2:00pm, Guest Nurseries: Monksilver, Pottertons and Desirable plants.

31 August 2023 – Essex Diane Clement, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Travels in Japan’

3 July 2023 – Bedfordshire Liz Livermore, ‘Alpine flowers of the Upper Engadine’

5 July 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Members Cheese and Wine – Venue TBA

27 July 2023 – Essex Liz Livermore, ‘The alpine flora of the Upper Engadine’

June 2023 Kent – Tunbridge Wells BBQ venue to be announced

5 June 2023 – Bedfordshire Ian Woolnough, ‘Cacti and other high altitude plants from South America’

15-18 June 2023 – AGS Young Person’s Weekend

24 June 2023 – Norfolk David Livermore, ‘Russian Caucasus’

29 June 2023 – Essex Tim Ingram, ‘Gardening on the rocks’

1 May 2023 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Paul Spraklin ‘The Great Outdoors’

2 May 2023 – Shropshire Jim Almond, ‘Primulaceae in the Garden’

3 May 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Dr. Wilson Wall, ‘Hardy Orchids’

4 May 2023 – Dorset Hilary and Austin Little, ‘Wildflowers and Wallabies of Western Australia’

8 May 2023 – Bedfordshire Meeting cancelled – due to Coronation

10 May 2023 – East Kent, Philip Oostenbrink, ‘Plant Collections’

12 May 2023 – Chiltern David Jewel, ‘Sir Harold Hillier Gardens’

12 May 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire AGM & garden visit

13 May 2023 – West Yorkshire AGM, Group Spring Show and short talk

14 May 2023 – Chesterfield & District Visit to Lea Gardens, near Matlock

15 May 2023 – East Cheshire Ray Drew, ‘Cypripediums’

25 May 2023 – Essex Barry Hennessy, ‘The Patagonian Lake District’

25 May 2023 – Hampshire Diane Clement, ‘Chinese Lanterns & Tibetan Prayer Flags‘

27 May 2023 – Norfolk Paul Cumbelton & Colin Everett (Zoom into our Hall at Hethersett), ‘Our Odyssey with bulbs’

28 May 2023 –  Chesterfield & District Visit to the Alpine Plant Centre, Calver, for Guided Tour and Talk on the Garden

29 May 2023 – South Devon AGM and garden tour- Saul Walker at Stonelands House Dawlish – (2.00 p.m.)

31 May 2023 – AGS Garden opens for National Garden Scheme, 2pm-6pm.

1 April – 8 April 2023 – AGS Crete Tour

1 April 2023 – AGS Garden opens for National Garden Scheme, 11am-4pm.

3 April 2023 – Bedfordshire John Amand, ‘Unusual bulbs and how they get to your garden’

3 April 2023 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Tom Freeth Flora and Gardens of Colorado

4 April 2023 – Shropshire Diane Clement, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North- Travels in Japan’

5 April 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Samantha Hope,‘The Genus Roscoea’

6 April 2023 – Dorset David Dickenson, ‘How the Cevennes uniquely survived the Ice Age’

6 April 2023 – South Devon Members Show. Display of any plants or cur flowers of interest

9 April 2023 – Chesterfield & District David Charlton, ‘African Extremities’

10 April 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Spring Show & Plant Sale, Hartpury Village Hall, Over Old Road, Hartpury, GL19 3FD

11 April 2023 – Cleveland AGM

12 April 2023 – East Kent, Afternoon garden visit – joint with Mid Kent

12 April 2023 – East Kent, Charlie Bancroft, ‘Restoring the Rock Garden at Nymans’

12 April 2023 – Oxford & District Jim Jermyn, ‘Inshriach – home to Jack Drake’s Nursery and many famous plants’

14 April 2023 – Chiltern Julian Sutton, ‘Beneath the Trees’

14 April 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire Local Show

15 April 2023 – West Yorkshire (Note: not 2nd Sat) Jack Ogg ‘York Gate Garden’

17 April 2023 – Warwickshire Mini Show and AGM

19 April 2023 – AGS Zoom Lecture Harry Jans, ‘Botanical tour through the South Island of New Zealand’

20 April 2023 – North Lancashire Ian Woosnough, ‘High Andean Cacti’

22 April 2023 – Norfolk Kit Strange, ‘Alpines of the Western Pacific Coast of the USA’

24 April 2023 – East Lancashire ZOOM Lecture Ger van den Beuken, ‘Cultivation & propagation of exquisite alpines’

24 April 2023 – Leicestershire  Diane Clement, ‘A Seedy Business’

24 April 2023 – East Cheshire AGM and Group Show

27 April 2023 – Essex Julian Reed, ‘Pteridology – National collection of Polystichum and Polypodium’

27 April 2023 – Hampshire AGM & Jon Evans ‘Wildside Nursery‘

29 April 2023 – AGS Garden opens for National Garden Scheme, 11am-4pm.

30 April 2023 – Mid Anglia  Start at 11:00am – A guided walk around Arger Fen and Spouse’s Vale
near Assington, Sudbury Suffolk CO8 5 BN with Richard Hobbs.

1 March 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Hillary Little, ‘In pursuit of the plants of Peru’

2 March 2023 – South Devon Paul Cumbleton, ‘Plants of the Meadows, Woodlands and High peaks of the Dolomites’

5 March 2023 – Shropshire Celia Wright, ‘My favourite moments in the Mountains and elsewhere’ (preceeded by AGM)

6 March 2023 – Bedfordshire Bruce Bennett, ‘Scottish wildflowers and gardens’

6 March 2023 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Martyn Denney ‘Early Spring and Late Summer in Georgia’

8 March 2023 – East Kent, Martyn Denney, ‘The Pre-Monsoon Flora of the Sikkim Himalaya’

8 March 2023 – Oxford & District Diane Clement, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Travels in Japan’

10 March 2023 – Chiltern John Tyler, ‘The Ridgeway / World of Fungi & flower show’

10 March 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire Neil Huntley, ‘My favourite alpines’

11 March 2023 – West Yorkshire Eric Rainford, ‘Greencombe Gardens’

12 March 2023 – Chesterfield & District Sue Miles and Ian Sutton ‘Yellowstone National Park, Geology and Flora’

13 March 2023 – North East England Diane Clement, ‘A Year in the Life of an Alpine Gardener’

14 March 2023 – Cleveland Diane Clement, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Travels in Japan’

16 March 2023 – North Lancashire Colin Crosbie, TBA

18 March 2023 – Mid Anglia 2:30pm Jamie Blake from Bressingham Gardens ‘Around the World in 80 plants’

20 March 2023 – East Cheshire Kevin Pratt, ‘Rare, Unusual and Pictorial Plants’

20 March 2023 – Warwickshire Hilary Little, ‘Newfoundland’

21 March 2023 – AGS Zoom Lecture Jiří Papoušek, ‘Dionysias in Iran – travelling with the CIA‘

23 March 2023 – Hampshire Julia Corden, ‘Meconopsis ‘Bhutan in the Footsteps of George Sherriff’

23 March – 11 April 2022 – AGS Bolivia Tour

25 March 2023 – Norfolk Group Show, Michael Sullivan, ‘Hybridisation, Saxifrages, Lewisia, Correas’

26 March 2023 – East Lancashire ZOOM Lecture John Lonsdale, ‘Woodland Treasures’

30 March 2023 – Essex Mike Lavelle, ‘Climate change and plants in the garden’

1 February 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern Jon Evans, ‘The Wildside Garden’

1 February 2023 – East Kent Members talk, Tim Ingram & Jeremy Spon

1 February 2023 – Derby  Diane Clement, ‘Woodland Plants in the Wild and in Cultivation’

4 February 2023 – AGS Snowdrop Day at Lilleshall National Conferencing Centre, Shropshire TF10 9AT

4 February 2023 – West Yorkshire Paul Cumbleton & Colin Everett – ZOOM TALK IN HALL ‘Our Odyssey With Bulbs’

7 February 2023 – Shropshire Tim Ingram, ‘Alpines and Perennials for Dry Gardens’ (Speaker zoomed into the Hall)

8 February 2023 – Oxford & District John Grimshaw, ‘The Treasure Chest: Gems from a Plantsman’s Garden’

10 February 2023 – Chiltern TBC (via Zoom)

10 February 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire Zoom meeting: Paul Cumbleton, ‘Crevice gardening’

14 February 2023 – Cleveland David Charlton, ‘African Extremities’

15 February 2023 – Norfolk Richard Green, ‘Northern India’ (via Zoom)

16 February 2023 – North Lancashire TBA

20 February 2023 – Warwickshire Ian Smith, ‘Flowers of the World’

22 February 2023 – AGS Zoom Lecture Alan Ayton, ‘Alpine Flora of Australia’

23 February 2023 – Essex David Haselgrove, ‘The South African West coast – an AGS Trip’

23 February 2023 – Hampshire via Zoom, TBC

25/26 February 2023 – East Kent, Garden visit (weather dependent)

27 February 2023 – East Cheshire Razvan Chisu, ‘Early summer in the Western Alps’

27 February 2023 – East Lancashire ZOOM Lecture T.J.Maher, ‘Taking a field & making a garden’

4 January 2023 – Cotswold & Malvern No Meeting

7 January 2023 – Dorset Mike Read, ‘Travels through the Rocky Mountains’

10 January 2023 – Cleveland Members Night

11 January 2023 – Oxford & District Member’s meeting

12 January 2023 – South Devon Kurt Vickery, ‘Botanising in the year of lockdown- Treasures under our noses’

13 January 2023 – Chiltern Harry Jans (via Zoom), ‘Armenian alpines’ TBC

13 January 2023 – Wirral & West Cheshire Zoom meeting: George & Liz Knowles (from Toronto), ‘Echoes of Wild Places’

14 January 2023 – West Yorkshire Jim Almond – ZOOM TALK IN HALL. Primulaceae in pots

16 January 2022 – East Cheshire Michael Myers, ‘Winter interest: Flowers, Foliage and Bark’

16 January 2023 – Warwickshire Razvan Chisu, ‘Spanish Daffodils and other Gems’

17 January 2023 – AGS Zoom Lecture Razvan Chisu, ‘Early Summer in the Western Alps’

18 January 2023 – Norfolk Bob Wallis, ‘Fritillaries on Four Continents’ (via Zoom)

19 January 2023 – North Lancashire David Charlton, ‘Mats, carpets and cushions in New Zealand and Svalbard’

23 January 2023 – East Lancashire ZOOM lecture Connor Smith, ‘Utrecht Botanic Garden’

26 January 2023 – Essex Rod Willett, ‘The elusive orchid’ & AGM

26 January 2023 – Hampshire Via Zoom – Adrian Cooper, TBC

28 November – 18 December 2022 – AGS Patagonia Tour

1 December 2022 – Dorset Members’ question time

1 December 2022 – South Devon Richard Horswood, ‘Northern Patagonia with the A.G.S.’

5 December 2022 – Bedfordshire Martyn Denney, ‘Cyclamen in the wild and in cultivation’

5 December 2022 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Social event with a Quiz Night

6 December 2022 – Shropshire Eddie Roberts, ‘A Winter Wonderland’

7 December 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern Chris Lilley, ‘A visit to Scotland during lockdown’

7 December 2022 – Derby Keith Bankier, ‘Flowers of Van and Eastern Turkey’

8 December 2022 – Devon Exeter Seed Exchange, Grand Raffle & Christmas Party

8 December 2022 – Hampshire Via Zoom – Seasonal meeting including quiz and short presentations by members.

9 December 2022 – Chiltern Kaye Lillycrop, ‘Australian gardens & Christmas social’

9 December 2022 – East-Cheshire Keith Bankier, ‘Exploring Azerbaijan in search of the flowers of the Talysh and Lower Caucasus’

9 December 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire Christmas Members’ Evening

10 December 2022 – South Lancashire Cliff Booker, ‘From Zion to Neon: An American road trip’

10 December 2022 – West Yorkshire Group members Members’ photographs

11 December 2022 – Chesterfield & District AGM and Christmas get-together

13 December 2022 – Cleveland Peter Maguire ‘Photography’

14 December 2022 – Mid-Kent AGM

14 December 2022 –  Oxford & District AGM, followed by Walter Sawyer, ‘Bulbs, Corms and Tubers’

14 December 2022 – Somerset Christmas Social (provisional date)

15 December 2022 – North Lancashire David Morris, ‘The Mardale project, 5 years on’

19 December 2022 – East Lancashire Via Zoom: David Rankin, ‘Meconopsis in the wild and the garden’

19 December 2022 – Warwickshire Members Talk with Punch and Mince Pies

21 December 2022 – Norfolk AGM & Christmas Social (1pm – 4pm)

29 October – 7 November 2022 – AGS Peloponnese Tour

1 November 2022 – Shropshire Jon Evans, ‘Keith Wiley and Wildside Nursery’

2 November 2022 – Derby Members’ evening and Auction

3 November 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern AGM

3 November 2022 – Dorset Bob & Rannveig Wallis, ‘Maintenance of a bulb collection’

3 November 2022 – South Devon Julian Sutton, ‘Oregon matters a plantsman’s virtual tour’

6 November 2022 – Chesterfield & District Andrew Norwell, ‘Growing Plants in Sand Beds’

7 November 2022 – Bedfordshire Tim Lever, ‘The Kingdom of Bhutan, in search of the pink poppy-wort’

7 November 2022 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Alex O’Sullivan Subject to be announced

8 November 2022 – Cleveland Alan Oatway ‘Washington Wildflowers’

9 November 2022 – Oxford & District David Haselgrove, ‘Making the Gardens at Pelham House and Foxhill’

11 November 2022 – Chiltern David Dickenson, ‘An Englishman in the Cevennes’

11 November 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire Peter Gateley, ‘Native Montane Flora’

12 – 13 November 2022 – AGS Annual General Meeting & Weekend Conference

12 November 2022 – South Lancashire Neil Huntley, ‘Alpines for troughs and raised beds’

12 November 2022 – West Yorkshire Cliff Booker ‘Patagonia – Part One’

15 November 2022 – AGS Zoom Lecture Paul Spriggs, ‘Vancouver Island Alpines: Plant hunting in North America’s westernmost mountain ranges‘

15 November 2022 – East Surrey AGM & Members talk

16 November 2022 – Mid-Kent Mark Oddy, ‘Chilean alpines’

17 November 2022 – Devon Exeter Tom Freeth, ‘The Rock Garden at RGB Kew’

17 November 2022 – North Lancashire David Mountfort, ‘Plants and places in the Austrian Tirol’

21 November 2022 – East-Cheshire Samantha Hopes, ‘Top 100 plants’

21 November 2022 – Warwickshire Selwyn Lane, ‘The Spring Flowers of Eastern Turkey and Nakhchivan’

23 November 2022 – Somerset Members Evening

24 November 2022 – Essex Jon Evans, ‘Wildflowers moving off the chalk’

24 November 2022 – Hampshire Dr Timothy Walker, ‘A Rockery in the Garden’

26 November 2022 – Norfolk Tim Lever, ‘Jewels in the rain’

27 November 2022 – Mid Anglia Tim Lever, ‘Snowdonia,Echoes of Home’

28 November 2022 – East Lancashire Via Zoom: Harry Jans, ‘Botanical and cultural treasures from Armenia’

28 November 2022 – Leicestershire David Charlton, ‘African extremities’

28 November – 18 December 2022 – AGS Patagonia Tour

3 October 2022 – Kent – Tunbridge Wells Mark Oddy Harlow Car

4 October 2022 – Shropshire Julian Sutton, ‘The Secret Life of Bulbs and Corms’

5 October 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern Mr. Julian Sutton, ‘A Plantsman’s guide to the American West’

5 October 2022 – Derby Cliff Booker, ‘Zion to Neon – flowers and wildlife from Utah to Nevada’

6 October 2022 – Dorset Julian Sutton, ‘Making sense of the Iridaceae’

6 October 2022 – South Devon Caroline Seymour, ‘Flowers from the Avenue of Volcanoes (Peru and Ecuador)’

8 October 2022 – Bedfordshire Annual Show

8 October 2022 – South Lancashire Celia Wright, ‘Orchids of the Mediterranean’

8 October 2022 – West Yorkshire Michael Myers, ‘Primula marginata – From the Maritime Alps to Yorkshire’

9 October 2022 – Chesterfield & District Dave Mountford, ‘AGS Tour of Chile’

11 October 2022 – Cleveland Jo Scott ‘A Nature Miscellany’

12 October 2022 – Oxford & District Richard Horswood, ‘Limestone Mountains of Italy – Northern Lakes and the Apennines’

13 October 2022 – North Lancashire Tony Willis, ‘Flowers of Macedonia’

14 October 2022 – Chiltern Paul Spracklin, ‘The Great Outdoors – Gardening with Succulents’

14 October 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire Samantha Hopes, ‘Plants with a story, a year in John Massey’s Garden’

15 October 2022 – Mid Anglia Derry Watkins, ‘Summer flowers from seed, wonderful annuals and biennials’

17 October 2022 – East-Cheshire Peter Williams, ‘Cold and frost-free greenhouse gardening’

17 October 2022 – Warwickshire David Charlton, ‘African extremities. Flowers and wildlife on the Cape Peninsula and Kirstenbosch followed by the Rif Mountains of Morocco and the gardens of Marrakesh’

18 October 2022 – AGS Zoom Lecture Dr. John Grimshaw, ‘Alpines of the Afromontane Archipelago’

18 October 2022 – East Surrey Charlie Bancroft, ‘Nymans Rock Garden Restoration’

20 October 2022 – Devon Exeter Jonathan Webster, ‘Rosemoor and its Plant Delights’

22 October 2022 – Norfolk  Ray Drew, ‘Cypripediums’

24 October 2022 – East Lancashire Via Zoom: Dave Toole, ‘Alpine Plants of the South Island’

24 October 2022 – Leicestershire Sue Miles, ‘Flora and geology of Cyprus’

26 October 2022 – Somerset Chris Lovell, ‘Morocco through bulbous eyes’

27 October 2022 – Essex Mike Sullivan, ‘Hybridisation of Saxifrages, Lewisias & Correas’

27 October 2022 – Hampshire Christopher Bailes, The Dry Garden: adapting to a changing climate

29 October – 7 November 2022 – AGS Peloponnese Tour

1 to 15 September 2022 – AGS South Africa Tour

1 September 2022 – Dorset Tim Lever, ‘Within sight of Snowdonia . At home with Alpines’

3 September 2022 – Mid Anglia Annual Plant and Bulb Sale – held at Fullers Mill,West Stow, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6HD, 2pm – 4pm (garden open until 5pm)

3 September 2022 – Cleveland Ray Drew, ‘Cypripediums’

5 September 2022 – Bedfordshire Tony Goode, ‘Hillary’s view (Vaud Alps)’

5 September 2022  – Kent – Tunbridge Wells  AGM followed by a video of a member’s garden in spring/early summer

6 September 2022 – Shropshire Tony Goode, ‘Crocus,Colchicum and cyclamen’

7 September 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern Paul Ranson, ‘The Genus Dionysia’

7 September 2022 – Derby Gill Fearn, ‘Plant hunting in South Africa and Namibia’

9 September 2022 – Chiltern Keith Bankier, ‘Van and Eastern Turkey – The Volcanoes’

9 September 2022 – Wirral & West Cheshire Paul Cook, ‘RHS Harlow Carr’

10 September 2022 – West Yorkshire John Mitchell, ‘Travels around the world’

10 September 2022 – South Lancashire Diane Clement, ‘Alpines in the wild and in cultivation’

10 September 2022 – West Yorkshire John Mitchell, ‘Travels around the world’

12 September 2022 – East Lancashire Kylie Hodges, ‘Plants of Tasmania’

13 September 2022 – Epping-Forest AGM

14 September 2022 – Oxford & District Graham Poynter, ‘On the trail of Farrer from Dales to Dolomites’

15 September 2022 – Devon Exeter The Roger Stuckey Memorial Lecture Christopher Bailes, ‘Andean Adventures’

15 September 2022 – North Lancashire Alan Oatway, ‘A-Z of Switzerland’

17th September 2022 – AGS Conservation Day Lectures, 3pm -6pm BST

19 September 2022 – Warwickshire Diane Clement, ‘Japan – The narrow road to the distant north’

20 September 2022 – East-Cheshire Julian Sutton, ‘The secret life of bulbs and corms’

20 September 2022 – East Surrey Diane Clement, ‘Japan – The narrow road to the distant north’

20 September 2022 – AGS Zoom Lecture, Dr. Martin Sheader, ‘Cultivation of a selection of Patagonian alpines’

22 September 2022 – Hampshire Razvan Chisu, Autumn bulbs in the Peloponnese and the last of the summer flowers

24 September 2022 – Norfolk Christopher Grey-Wilson, ‘The three mountains’

25 September 2022 – AGS Bulb Day at Spetchley Park Gardens, WR5 1RS

26 September 2022 – East Lancashire Via Zoom: Linda Cochran, ‘Discovering and cultivating showy native plants in the Pacific North-West’

26 September 2022 – Leicestershire Robert Barlow, ‘Hostas’

28 September 2022 – Somerset Kurt Vickery, ‘A bulb hunter’s favourite weeds’

29 September 2022 – Essex John Amand, ‘Bulbs and how they get to your garden’

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, ‘Trilliums and Woodland Plants of North America’

25 August 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘A Seedy Business’

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 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’

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’

2 April 2022 – Mid Anglia – Garden visit

4 April 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Joe Sharman, ‘The flowers of Mount Olympus’

6 April 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Robert Bryan, ‘Spring flowers of Engadin, Switzerland’

7 April 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘A Seedy Business’

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

9 April 2022 –  West Yorkshire In-person meeting: Peter Williams, ‘The Backhouses and their plants’

11 April 2022 – East Lancashire Online plant talk: Todd Boland, ‘The Beartooth scenic highway: dizzying height and alpine delights’

12 April 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘Hepaticas and Cyclamen, jewels of the garden’

13 April 2022 – Oxford in-person meeting: Tom King, ‘The Crocus and Galanthus collections at RHS Garden Wisley’

18 April 2022 – Warwickshire In-person meeting: Mini Show and AGM

18 April 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Spring Show & Plant Sale

19 April 2022 – East Surrey In-person meeting: Razvan Chisu, ‘Plants and castles of Transylvania’

21 April 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Group show

21 April 2022 – Lancashire, North  In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘Hepaticas and Cyclamen, jewels of the garden’

23 April 2022 – Norfolk Jon Evans, ‘Wildside Garden in Devon’

25 April 2022 – East-Cheshire In-person meeting: Christopher Grey-Wilson, ‘Adonis and Codonopsis’

27 April 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘Cyclamen and hepaticas – Jewels of the Garden’

28 April 2022 – Essex In person meeting: Arthur Nicholls, ‘Spring in Iran’

28 April 2022 – Online plant talk: John Dower, ‘Miniature gardens’ This talk will be recorded.

28 April 2022 – Hampshire In-person meeting: AGM & Tim Ingram, ‘Gardens of the Czech Republic’

2 March 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Martyn Denney, ‘A Botanical Tour Through Japan’

3 March 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: AGM, John Lockwood and John Sample will speak after the AGM

7 March 2022 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Tommy Tonsberg: ‘Gardens and garden plants of Norway’

8 March 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: John Fielding, ‘Mediterranean flora & its suitability in the UK’

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)

12 March 2022 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: John Grimshaw, ‘A journey in search of ungrowable plants’

12 March 2022 – Mid Anglia In-person meeting: Richard Hobbs, ‘Little Blue Bulbs’

15 March 2022 – East Surrey Online plant talk: Margaret Easter, ‘Thyme in the wild’

17 March 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: David Carver, ‘Cultivating Daphnes’

19 March 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Local show at Allendale, Wimborne

21 March 2022 – Warwickshire In-person meeting: Jo and Brian Walker, ‘USA California’

22 March 2022 – East Lancashire Online plant talk: Dr. David Millward, ‘Gardening a legacy’ (Please note this takes place on a Tuesday and not the usual Monday)

23 March 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: AGM & Brenda and Peter Wilson, ‘Iceland’

24 March 2022 – Online plant talk: Dr. Christopher Grey-Wilson, ‘Pasque-flowers, the genus Pulsatilla’ This talk will be recorded.

24 March 2022 – Hampshire In-person meeting: David Dickenson, ‘Isolated in Time – How the Cévennes uniquely survived the Ice Age’. Plant Competition: The David Benton Rose Bowl is awarded to the winner of the Plant Competition

26 March 2022 – Norfolk Group Show – judged by Gail Harland

2 February 2022 – Cotswold & Malvern In-person meeting: Duncan Coombs, ‘Into the high mountains of China’

3 February 2022 – Dorset In-person meeting: Bob Gibbons

5 February 2022 – AGS Zoom Snowdrop day, book tickets for this online event here.

7 February 2022 – East Cheshire Online plant talk: Paul Cumbleton, ‘Growing and propagating South African bulbs’

8 February 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: Jon Evans, ‘Off the chalk: plant hunting part 2’

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’

12 February 2022 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: Keith Bankier, ‘Van and Eastern Turkey’

15 February 2022 – East Surrey Online plant talk: Adrian Davies, ‘Plant photography – telling a story’

15 February 2022 – Arthur Nicholls, ‘Spring in Kyrgyzstan’ – Open and free to all AGS members in the Bedfordshire Region, Essex and Mid-Anglia catchment areas. To book a place, please email robert.amos@alpinegardensociety.org with your postcode

16 February 2022 – Norfolk Online plant talk: Richard Green, ‘China beyond the crowds’

17 February 2022 – Devon Exeter In-person meeting: Kurt Vickery, ‘Botanizing in the year of Lockdown – Treasures right under our noses’

21 February 2022 – East Lancashire Online plant talk: Liz Knowles, ‘Echoes of wild places’

21 February 2022 – Warwickshire In-person meeting: Diane Clement, ‘Woodland Plants in the Wild and in Cultivation’

23 February 2022 – Somerset In person meeting: Hilary Little, ‘Along the Patagonian Highway’

24 February 2022 – Online plant talk: Wim Boens, ‘Leucojum the lesser-known sister of Galanthus‘  This talk will be recorded.

24 February 2022 – Hampshire Online plant talk: Jim Jermyn, ‘European alpines in nature – a new look’

28 February 2022 – East Cheshire In-person meeting: James Miller: ‘Geophytes and Flora of Israel and Palestine’

5 January 2022 – East Cheshire Online plant talk: Martin Sheader: ‘South American cushion plants’

8 January 2022 – South Lancashire In-person meeting: Neil Huntley, ‘Alpines for troughs and raised beds’

8 January 2022 – West Yorkshire In-person meeting: Razvan Chisu, ‘Memories of Greece’

10 January 2022 – East Lancashire Online plant talk: Paul Spriggs: ‘Cracks and Crevices, the art of the crevice garden’.

11 January 2022 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: Ray Drew, ‘Cypripediums’

11 January 2022 – Cliff Booker, ‘Cream of alpines’, – Open and free to all AGS members in the Bedfordshire Region, Essex and Mid-Anglia catchment areas. To book a place, please email robert.amos@alpinegardensociety.org with your postcode

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’

17 January 2022 – East Cheshire In-person & Zoom meeting: Razvan Chisu, ‘Spanish daffodils are many other gems’

18 January 2022 – East Surrey Online plant talk: Trevor Wiltshire, ‘Galanthus’

19 January 2022 – Norfolk Online plant talk: Alan Oatway, ‘Tibet, Everest and Alpine’

20 January 2022 – Somerset & Devon Exeter joint Online plant talk: Richard Bains, ‘The Pontic Alps’

26 January 2022 – Somerset Online plant talk: Jim Jermyn, ‘Growing Alpine Plants in true character’

27 January 2022 – Online plant talk: Dr. Adrian Cooper, ‘Climate Change and growing alpines’ This talk will be recorded.

27 January 2022 – Hampshire Online plant talk: Chris Gardner, ‘Flora of the Silk Road’

2 December 2021 – Dorset In-person meeting: Richard Horswood, ‘Norway via Gothenburg Botanic Garden’

6 December 2021 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Kurt Vickery, ‘Tulips hunter’s favourite weeds: highlights of 10 years of tour leading’

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’

8 December 2021 – Tony Goode, ‘The Four Seasons’ – Open and free to all AGS members in the Bedfordshire Region, Essex and Mid-Anglia catchment areas. To book a place, please email robert.amos@alpinegardensociety.org with your postcode

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

1 November 2021 – Bedfordshire In-person meeting: Liz Livermore, ‘Chile – A botanical adventure’

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’

9 November 2021 – Epping-Forest In-person meeting: Liz Livermore, ‘Chile: a botanical adventure’

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’

27 November 2021 – Seed Distribution open

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’

8 September 2021 – Oxford in-person meeting: Kurt Vickery, ‘A Tulip Hunters Favourite Weeds’

16 September 2021 – Online plant talk: Chris Gardner, ‘Flora of the silk road’

20 September 2021 – Each Cheshire in-person meeting, Tim Lever, ‘Within sight of Snowdonia: at home with alpines’

20 – 26 September 2021 – Chelsea Flower Show