Plants, Borders and Gardens
Sunday 29 November 2009
Ryarsh Village Hall map
Annual General Meeting 2.30 pm
full details can be found in the Autumn newsletter
followed by
Plants, Borders and Gardens
Dr. Timothy Walker 3.00 pm
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
Timothy Walker, Director of Oxford Botanic Garden, is well known to many members, but for our welcome new members, here’s a bit of background. Read more
Irises Through the Year
Elaine Horton
Sunday 25 October
Sevenoaks Community Centre, 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
If, like me, you think of irises as having a somewhat limited flowering season, then Elaine Horton will dispel your prejudices and open your mind to this lovely and varied genus. Read more
Feeling Seedy
Judy Harry
Sunday 26 April
Smarden Charter Hall 2.30pm map
followed by
Seedling Swap and Sale
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
Judy Harry, a garden lecturer and adult education tutor, and a past chairman of the Society, has been a member of the HPS for about twenty years. Read more
Herbaceous Clematis
Everett Leeds
Sunday 29 March
Lenham Community Centre 2pm map
This lecture will follow the Indoor Plant Sale. Details
The plant sale is open to the public.
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
Everett Leeds began his longstanding fascination with clematis in the 1970s. Despite describing himself as ‘just an amateur’, he was a founder member Read more
Successional Planting
Fergus Garrett
Sunday 22 February
Benenden Village Hall, 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
Fergus Garrett will require little or no introduction to HPS members. As Head Gardener at Great Dixter in East Sussex, he worked for 15 years with iconoclastic master plantsman and gardener Christopher Lloyd until ‘Christo’s’ death in 2006, first merely carrying out instructions, but later as a full partner in the adventurousness and experimentation that came to characterise Great Dixter. Read more
In Search of the Queen of Sheba
- Orchids and other Western Australian plants
Irene Palmer
Sunday 25 January
Lower Hardres Village Hall 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
John and Irene Palmer specialize in plant and landscape photography: their photographs have been published in over 100 countries. They are Honorary Wardens of Downe Bank, a small nature reserve Read more
