The 2024 – 2025 Seed Exchange will be live on Saturday 30th November 2024

The Seed Exchange relies on the help of many volunteers to donate, sort and pack seed and also to pick seed orders. The seed exchange is organised into three sections, each with a separate manager who organises the volunteers in that section.

If you think you can help in any way, please get in touch with Diane Clement  diane.clement@agsgroups.org

or click on one of the links below for more information.

1. Donating Seed

Alpine Garden Society members collect and donate seed from their own gardens and from the wild. Members donate in varying quantities from a few packets up to over a hundred packets.

Although alpine seed is our main focus, our members donate seed of herbaceous plants, bulbous plants, grasses, trees and shrubs, also fern spores, and also small bulbs, corms and tubers.  This makes our seed list particularly diverse and appealing to a wide range of growers.

2. Seed Checking & Packing

Our Seed Reception Team check the seed donations for quality and accuracy. This ensures botanical names are up to date and as far as we can, the seed is true to name.

The seeds are then sorted and packed by volunteer packers into glassine envelopes.

3. Seed Distribution

The seed list will go live on our website in November 2024.  Members who can’t use a computer can request a printed seed list.

Members can browse the list and place a seed order, ideally through our online system. Because some seed is in short supply and in great demand, we ask members to make 1st and 2nd choices so we can make up their order if we run out of certain seed.

Seed Donors are thanked by being given priority ordering and extra packets of seed in their order.

We charge a minimal amount for placing seed orders. This is only possible due to the support of the large number of dedicated volunteers who make it possible to run a seed exchange.

We are proud of our seed exchange and grateful to the many volunteers who get involved every year.

4. Seed Ordering

5. Seed Lists

Previous years’ Seed Lists are available to view, download or print.

6. Seed Information for Overseas Members

There are increasing regulations for the import and export of seed to and from all countries worldwide.