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March 2025
2025 Spring Local Show, Members’ Plant Sale and Workshop
The Spring Local Show will be held in St Brigid's Parish Centre. Paddy Smith will be giving a workshop on growing gentians, there will be a plant sale, and of course tea, coffee, biscuits and chat. Here’s the Show Schedule. Note that exhibits must be staged by 2.00pm. Plants Section Class 1 1 pan Alpine Plant in Flower. Class 2 1 pan Saxifraga. Class 3 1 pan Primula. Class 4 1 pan Cyclamen. Class 5 1 pan Bulbous Plant. Class…
Find out more »The Joy of Sax – David Sellars
The lecture will be held via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out ahead of time. David Sellars is an award winning photographer and is a Past-President of the Alpine Garden Club of British Columbia. Together with his wife, Wendy, he is developing an alpine and woodland garden in coastal British Columbia. The garden received the Millstream Garden Award for Rock and Alpine Garden in 2012 and was featured in the Fall 2013 issue of the Rock Garden Quarterly.…
Find out more »April 2025
Dublin Group AGS Show 2025
Here’s what you will find at the Show: Exhibition Plants – A unique opportunity to see exotic plants from mountains and meadows around the world. Society Plant Stall – many unusual alpines and other plants for sale. Trade Plant Stalls – a wide range of choice rock garden and herbaceous plants for sale. Display of Bonsai trees (TBC). Afternoon Teas. Raffle. Admission is €4 (members and children free). Download the Show Schedule for 2025 You can find further information for…
Find out more »Ulster Group AGS Show 2025
Staging is from 8 am to 9.30 am. Judging begins at 9.45 am. The Show Hall is open from 12 noon to 3.30 pm but Plant Sales open earlier, at 11.30 am.
Find out more »May 2025
AGS Visit to Patthana Garden
Booking information will be sent out to members.
Find out more »June 2025
September 2025
AGS Plant Sale and Seed Exchange
The 2025 AGS Plant Sale & Seed Exchange will take place in the Teak House at the National Botanic Gardens. There will be a workshop given by Clare Beumer of Coldblow Nursery on ‘Collection, Germination, Propagation’. Clare Beumer was a botanical illustrator for 20 years before establishing a specialist nursery in 1998. Her work illustrated many publications including 'Oak & Company', 'The Natural History of Churchyards', 'The Journals of Gilbert White', The Times Saturday Gardening Column & 'Beth Chatto's Garden…
Find out more »Plants For Shade & Woodland – Timothy Walker
The lecture will be held via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out ahead of time. From 1988 to 2014 Timothy Walker was director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. Since then he has been a Senior College Lecturer in Plant Biology at Somerville College, Oxford.
Find out more »October 2025
Plants Above Treeline – Geir Mohen
Geir lives in the countryside northeast of Oslo, Norway. His passion for plants began in childhood, guided by his grandmother’s early lessons in gardening. Over the past 30 years, he’s cultivated a wide range of plants, with a primary focus on alpine species. Although he initially wanted to grow every plant he encountered, he now finds great enjoyment in studying plants in their natural habitats. He founded Plants Above Treeline (https://www.alpine-plants.com/), an initiative dedicated to the conservation and propagation of…
Find out more »November 2025
40th Alpine Weekend
The speakers at this year’s event will be: John Mitchell Seamus O’Brien Kevin Begley Lecture Programme Saturday 15th November 11.00 14.00 16.00 Sunday 16th November 09.30 11.00 Speakers: John Mitchell After obtaining his Horticultural qualification John worked initially at St Andrews Botanic Garden, Inverewe. For the last 40 years John has worked at Edinburgh Botanic Garden, the last 19 as Supervisor. His main duties are managing the Alpine Department which includes the Rock Garden, the Woodland Garden, the Alpine Area…
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