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We offer open days to see National Plant Collections and usually have a wide range of talks, visits, workshops and other events across the country.

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Talk

Plant Imports, IPAFFS & Exports - an update from APHA for Collection Holders

14 March 2025 11.30am - 1.00pm

Join us for an update from APHA on plant imports & exports and requirements for the Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS).

Plant imports presentation (20-30 mins)
IPAFFS Demonstration on registration and submitting applications. (20-30 mins)
Plant exports presentation (15 mins)
Q&A Session (15 mins)

Open Day

The Nymans Collection

15 March 2025 10.00am - 5.00pm

Handcross , West Sussex

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Talk

The Plant Collector by Philip Oostenbrink - a Zoom talk

20 March 2025 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Online , Hampshire

In this talk Philip Oostenbrink, the Head Gardener at Walmer Castle, discusses

what started his obsession with plants, which ultimately led to having

several (National) Plant Collections. From the age of 4 he started

collecting Sempervivum and cacti. Nowadays his taste goes more towards

jungle plants with the emphasis on foliage. Philip will show a range of

plants he is obsessed with, including the confession of how much a very

expensive variegated fig turned out to be! This talk is for everyone who is

interested in the more unusual plants.

To book a place click on this page

Talk

Spring talk and demonstration - Acer palmatum

22 March 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Haywards Heath , East Sussex

Talk & demonstration by Miles Hayward of Miles Japanese Maples, Storrington on Acer palmatum: growing healthy, beautiful trees. Miles won silver gilt at Chelsea Flower Show for his Lindley educational display 'Acer palmatum: propagation and cultivation'. Miles will bring along Acer cultivars and ferns to sell. Contact Miles at milesjapanesemaples.co.uk .co.uk if you would like something specific. Tea, cake, plant sales and raffle.

Talk

'Climate change: the long-range gardener's forecast' by Jim Paine

22 March 2025 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Wetherden, Nr. Elmswell , Suffolk

Open Day

Pulmonaria cvs.

23 March 2025 1.00pm - 4.00pm

Callow End , Worcestershire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Event

Arley Spring Plant Fair (1)

23 March 2025 1.00pm - 4.00pm

Cheshire

Arley Spring Plant Fair - we will be selling plants grown by members. more details to follow

Open Day

Corydalis

23 March 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Durham , Co Durham

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Talk

Talk 'Wonderful Weeds' Peter Williams

26 March 2025 1.30pm - 4.00pm

Knutsford , Cheshire

Peter is an ecologist, plant physiologist, soil scientist and gardener and was formerly principal lecturer at York St John University. He is interested in the concept of natural gardening and what it entails.

Workshop

Discover more about Plant Guardians and the Plant Exchange.

26 March 2025 3.00pm - 5.00pm

Virtual

Come and be part of our discussion on Plant Guardian plants and the yearly Plant Exchange. Discover how you can contribute to plant conservation by getting involved.

Don’t miss the chance to listen to some of our Plant Guardians (Gaby Reynolds, Claire Davitt & Richard Marshall) share their experiences and hear about the fabulous plants shared in our free annual plant exchange. Find out how easy it is to take part in both schemes.

Open Day

Scilla (Chionodoxa)

29 March 2025 10.00am - 30 March 2025 4.00pm

Canonbie , Dumfries & Galloway

Open weekend to visit the National Plant Collection.

Workshop

Spring Plant Propagation and Dispersed Collection Meeting March 2025 @ Stud Nursery

29 March 2025 10.00am - 2.00pm

Kingston , Surrey

Plant Propagation and Dispersed Collection Meeting

Open Day

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

29 March 2025 10.30am - 12.30pm

West Sussex

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections. Booking essential.

Open Day

Hyacinthus orientalis

29 March 2025 11.00am - 30 March 2025 5.00pm

Cambridgeshire

Open weekend to see the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Quercus

30 March 2025

Tiverton , Devon

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Camellia japonica

04 April 2025 10.30am - 5.00pm

Torpoint , Cornwall

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Lewisia

05 April 2025 10.00am - 2.00pm

Kingswinford , West Midlands

Open Saturday's throughout April to visit the National Plant Collection.

Event

Spring Plant Fair - RHS Garden Bridgewater (2)

05 April 2025 10.00am - 5.00pm

Worsley, Salford , Greater Manchester

PH Spring Fair in partnership with RHS Bridgewater. Stalls from specialist northern region plant nurseries. Plant Heritage display, advice, plant sale. Enjoy talks, RHS organised garden tour and children's trails.

Open Day

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

05 April 2025 10.30am - 12.30pm

West Sussex

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections. Booking essential.

Open Day

Corydalis

06 April 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Durham , Co Durham

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Tulipa (historic tulips)

09 April 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Calne , Wiltshire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection. Pre-booking essential

Visit

Private garden visit MOTHECOMBE HOUSE

10 April 2025 2.30pm - 5.00pm

MOTHECOMBE, HOLBETON, PLYMOUTH , Devon

Open Day

Queen Mary II Exoticks Collection

10 April 2025 6.00pm - 8.00pm

East Molesey , Surrey

Open evening to visit the National Plant Collection. Pre-booking essential.

Talk

'The Secret World of Moths' with Peter Smith

10 April 2025 7.00pm - 9.30pm

Cobham , Surrey

A talk by Peter Smith

Attend in person in Cobham or via Zoom.

Please note the deadline for requests for a Zoom invitation for this talk is 11am on the morning of the event.

Talk

Talk 'Colour in the Garden without Flowers' - Phil Gamble

10 April 2025 7.00pm - 9.30pm

Bridport Road , Dorset

Phil Gamble is a West Country Gardening Expert. Previously a teacher at Cannington College and Kingston Maurward College and Head Gardener, he now runs 'Gardenreassurance.com' and is a freelance garden advisor and writer and a regular on local radio.

Refreshments available and interesting plants for sale, prior to the talk. Parking is free from 6pm at public car park opposite the centre.

Open Day

Petrocosmea, Streptocarpus, Streptocarpus (Saintpaulia)

12 April 2025

Ruthin , Denbighshire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections.

Open Day

Camellia reticulata cvs. & hybrids

12 April 2025 - 13 April 2025

Truro , Cornwall

Charity weekend to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Narcissus (Springfields Collection)

12 April 2025 10.00am - 13 April 2025 4.00pm

Spalding , Lincolnshire

Open weekend to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Narcissus (Backhouse cvs.)

12 April 2025 10.00am - 13 April 2025 4.30pm

By Collessie , Fife

Open weekend to visit the National Plant Collection.

Talk

Meticulous Auriculas

12 April 2025 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Cambridge , Cambridgeshire

A talk by James Smallwood, who has grown Auriculas for more than twenty years.

Talk

Two short talks (details to be confirmed)

12 April 2025 2.30pm - 4.00pm

Ponteland , Northumberland

Details in progress

Open Day

Juglans, Pterocarya

13 April 2025 10.00am - 5.00pm

Moreton-in-Marsh , Gloucestershire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections.

Open Day

Erythronium, Gaultheria (incl. Pernettya), Polystichum, Vaccinium

15 April 2025 2.00pm - 6.00pm

Porlock , Somerset

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections.

Open Day

Tulipa (historic tulips)

16 April 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Calne , Wiltshire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection. Pre-booking essential

Workshop

Persephone plant records for Members

17 April 2025 6.00pm - 7.00pm

An online workshop for all current members who use Persephone to record their private gardens and anyone who is interested in trying out the system.

Register

Open Day

Echeveria spp., cvs. & interspecific hybrids (incl. intergeneric hybrids), Graptopetalum & Pachyphytum spp. & hybrids

18 April 2025 10.00am - 21 April 2025 4.00pm

Eastoft , Lincolnshire

Open weekend to visit the National Plant Collection. Booking essential due to limited parking.

Open Day

Primula auricula (Alpine)

19 April 2025 10.00am - 5.00pm

Bridgnorth , Shropshire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Lewisia

20 April 2025 10.00am - 2.00pm

Kingswinford , West Midlands

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Pulmonaria cvs.

20 April 2025 1.00pm - 4.00pm

Callow End , Worcestershire

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Workshop

National Plant Collection Holders - Persephone plant records Basic Skills

22 April 2025 2.00pm - 3.00pm

An online workshop for all full & proposed National Collection Holders either currently using Persephone for plant records or interested to do so in future.

How to add plants and accessions, how to check plant names, add images and notes, and get a report.

Register

Workshop

National Plant Collection Holders - Persephone plant records Advanced Skills

24 April 2025 2.00pm - 3.00pm

An online workshop for all full & proposed National Collection Holders either currently using Persephone for plant records or interested to do so in future.

Content is flexible, but can include setting up note fields, advanced searching, using qualifiers to record back-up plants and propagules, mapping, recording herbarium specimens.

Register

Talk

'Saving Daffodils - the Noel Burr Collection' and National AGM

24 April 2025 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Virtual

Hear from Roger Parsons on the shared National Plant Collection of Narcissus, looked after by Plant Heritage Sussex members.

Join our national AGM

Visit

Visit to the National Collection of Clematis montana

25 April 2025 11.00am - 12.00pm

Woodfalls, Salisbury , Wiltshire

Visit and guided tour to see the National Collection of Clematis Montana
Refreshments provided.

Open Day

Narcissus (Brodie cvs.)

26 April 2025 - 27 April 2025

Forres , Moray

Open weekend to see the National Plant Collection.

Open Day

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

26 April 2025 10.30am - 12.30pm

West Sussex

Open day to visit the National Plant Collections. Booking essential.

Talk

'The revival of the medlar' by Jane Steward

26 April 2025 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Wetherden, Nr. Elmswell , Suffolk

Open Day

Quercus

27 April 2025

Tiverton , Devon

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Event

Spring Plant Fair at Markshall Estate

27 April 2025 10.00am - 28 April 2025 4.00pm

Coggeshall , Essex

Specialist nurseries, question and answer stand, plant creche, ample parking. For all details regarding entry to stunning Markshall gardens and arboretum, see Markshall website.

Open Day

Malus & Pyrus (Scottish heritage apples & pears), Malus (Scottish cider apples & Tidnor Wood collection)

27 April 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Errol , Perth & Kinross

Open day to visit the National Plant Collection.

Visit

Visit to the Surrey Group Wisteria Collection

01 May 2025 10.00am - 31 May 2025 12.00pm

Surrey

A visit to The Surrey Group's Wisteria collection held on a private estate not normally open to the public.

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Events

Plant Imports, IPAFFS & Exports - an update from APHA for Collection Holders

The Nymans Collection

The Plant Collector by Philip Oostenbrink - a Zoom talk

Spring talk and demonstration - Acer palmatum

'Climate change: the long-range gardener's forecast' by Jim Paine

Pulmonaria cvs.

Arley Spring Plant Fair (1)

Corydalis

Talk 'Wonderful Weeds' Peter Williams

Discover more about Plant Guardians and the Plant Exchange.

Scilla (Chionodoxa)

Spring Plant Propagation and Dispersed Collection Meeting March 2025 @ Stud Nursery

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

Hyacinthus orientalis

Quercus

Camellia japonica

Lewisia

Spring Plant Fair - RHS Garden Bridgewater (2)

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

Corydalis

Tulipa (historic tulips)

Private garden visit MOTHECOMBE HOUSE

Queen Mary II Exoticks Collection

'The Secret World of Moths' with Peter Smith

Talk 'Colour in the Garden without Flowers' - Phil Gamble

Petrocosmea, Streptocarpus, Streptocarpus (Saintpaulia)

Camellia reticulata cvs. & hybrids

Narcissus (Springfields Collection)

Narcissus (Backhouse cvs.)

Meticulous Auriculas

Two short talks (details to be confirmed)

Juglans, Pterocarya

Erythronium, Gaultheria (incl. Pernettya), Polystichum, Vaccinium

Tulipa (historic tulips)

Persephone plant records for Members

Echeveria spp., cvs. & interspecific hybrids (incl. intergeneric hybrids), Graptopetalum & Pachyphytum spp. & hybrids

Primula auricula (Alpine)

Lewisia

Pulmonaria cvs.

National Plant Collection Holders - Persephone plant records Basic Skills

National Plant Collection Holders - Persephone plant records Advanced Skills

'Saving Daffodils - the Noel Burr Collection' and National AGM

Visit to the National Collection of Clematis montana

Narcissus (Brodie cvs.)

Anguloa spp. & hybrids, Masdevallia spp. & hybrids, Oncidium, Pleione, Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids

'The revival of the medlar' by Jane Steward

Quercus

Spring Plant Fair at Markshall Estate

Malus & Pyrus (Scottish heritage apples & pears), Malus (Scottish cider apples & Tidnor Wood collection)

Visit to the Surrey Group Wisteria Collection

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