Western Counties

From Cang Shan to Balang Shan: Plant Hunting in Western China – Duncan Coombs

Duncan lectured for 30 years in Decorative Horticulture at Pershore College following a degree in Botany.   His talk features a recent plant hunting trip in the Himalayas finding a complete range of... read more

Organic Gardening. Happy Plants, Happy Minds – Nicola Hope

After leaving school Nikki studied Fine Art at Cardiff but longed for the university holidays when she worked as an assistant gardener at Highgrove for HRH Prince of Wales. She went on to study Organi... read more

Do Your Roots Need Doing? – Andrew Mikolajski

Good root growth is essential for healthy and productive plants. How can you be sure your plants are performing well under ground when you can’t even see them? Andrew was a horticultural adviser... read more

Morton Hall Garden – Hints and Tips from a Head Gardener – Oli Johnson

Oli will talk to us about aiming for perfection in our gardens, bringing his knowledge, expertise and flair to share and using examples such as roses, clematis and pot-work at Morton Hall.

Plants for Shade and Woodland – Dr Timothy Walker

In this talk Timothy will address those problem areas of the garden where the sun does not shine for some, or all, of the day.  This talk looks at which plants can be grown in the five different type... read more

Chilean Plants and Their Conservation – Martin Gardner

Martin worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh as co-ordinator of the International Conifer Conservation Programme. Part of his work has been to establish one of the world’s most comprehen... read more

A History of Garden Plants in Twelve Shrubs – Dr Julian Sutton

How garden plants reached us, told through twelve shrubs. Very diverse, not an exhausting, exhaustive bio-piece on the turn-of-the-last-century ‘plant hunters’, though they inevitably get a mentio... read more

Preparing for Spring and Best Ever Borders – Tamsin Westhorpe

Tamsin will share insights in her inimitable style into maintaining a thriving plantsman’s oasis, including stories and history behind Stockton Bury’s diverse plant collections. Having edi... read more

Gardens are mostly about sex, death and deliciousness…James Alexander-Sinclair

Celebrity Lecture – ticketed event group members will be given priority James Alexander-Sinclair FSGD is one of the foremost garden designers in the United Kingdom. He has designed gardens from ... read more