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NZAGS Programme
We meet at 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street (Doors open at 7.30pm) Riccarton, for a short general meeting followed by an informative and inspirational speaker.
Date | Speaker | Title | Description |
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06/11/2025 | Clint Callans | Steve Newell Speaker :Clint Callans | TBD |
02/10/2025 | Pieter Pelser and Julie Barcelona | Rafflesia | Rafflesia |
04/09/2025 | Suzanne Pickford | Great Garden Designers | Great garden designers from Spain to the UK |
07/08/2025 | Paul Maurice | AGM + Paul Maurice | Paul Maurice 's talk will be on Kazakhstan and the Altai Mountains |
13/07/2025 | NZAGS 65th Anniversary Celebratory Lunch | Celebrations buffet lunch at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St., Riccarton, Christchurch. | |
05/06/2025 | Melissa Hutchison | Endemic plants of Stewart Island alpine zones | Melissia Hutchinson (plant ecologist based in Christchurch) will be speaking about the endemic plants of Rakiura/Stewart Island alpine zones |
01/05/2025 | Panel of Plant Experts | Question Time | A discussion panel of plant experts answering everyone’s questions
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03/04/2025 | Professor Hazel Chapman University of Canterbury |
The Nigerian Montane Forest Project – a model for conservation | Hazel Chapman will be talking to us about the Nigerian Montane Forest Project, which is based at Ngel Nyaki forest reserve on the Mambilla Plateau |
06/02/2025 | Grant Matheson | Christchurch Botanical Gardens | Tour of the alpine and crevice gardens at the Christchurch Botanical Gardens followed by supper at the Kiosk |
30/01/2025 | Carol Halstead | "In pursuit of the Blue Poppy and other treasures along the road to Tibet"
| An amateur's photographic account of a recent trip from Lijiang, Yunnan, to Llhasa Tibet organised by John Mitchell and the Alpine Garden Society UK .
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07/12/2024 | Christmas Function | Christmas function | Held in Rangiora. |
10/11/2024 | Garden visits | Garden visits -10.30am | Visits to gardens in Christchurch City |
07/11/2024 | Jiri Papousek | Steve Newell Memorial Speaker ($5 entry) - 'Open to non-members, all welcome | Jiri is from The Czech Republic. He will speak about his love of crevice gardens, troughs, peat and tufa gardens. Jiri is our Steve Newell Memorial Speaker for 2024. ($5 entry) - Open to non-members, all welcome |
03/10/2024 | Dr Pieter Pelser | 89,000 and counting: documenting Philippine plant diversity one photo at a time | Talk on Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines and more |
22/09/2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | NZAGS Spring show, Daffodil show, Floral Art, rare plant sales and more... |
21/09/2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | NZAGS Spring show, Daffodil show, Floral Art, rare plant sales and more... |
05/09/2024 | Hamish & Mika Brown | NZAGS Quiz Night | Quiz Night & Special General Meeting to vote on the new constitution
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01/08/2024 | Pauline Murphy | AGM | Annual General Meeting |
07/07/2024 | Tony Bywater | Bonsai demonstration, shared lunch and plant exchange | Bonsai demonstration, shared lunch and plant exchange |
04/04/2024 | Paul Maurice | The Flora of Southern China | |
07/03/2024 | Joe Cartman | Collecting and cleaning seed | Collecting and cleaning seed |
01/02/2024 | Alan Jolliffe | NZ Mistletoe | NZ Mistletoe |
02/12/2023 | Jim Jermyn | Steve Newall Memorial Lecture & Study Day | |
02/11/2023 | Suzanne Pickford | The Caucasus, Armenia and Georgia | |
05/10/2023 | Prue Harper | Snowdrops | |
17/09/2023 | Spring Show at the Botanical Expo | ||
16/09/2023 | Spring Show at the Botanical Expo | ||
07/09/2023 | Caroline Elliot | Cycling Through Kashmir | |
03/08/2023 | AGM Hamish Brown | Pee Pots and Old Masonry | |
06/07/2023 | Gábor Csontos | Exploring New Zealand | |
01/06/2023 | Paul Schroeder | Touring Australia | |
04/05/2023 | Ben Lay | Mona Vales Gardens | |
02/03/2023 | Cliff Keilty and John Van Hoeven | Southern Alpines Lecture - Percy Reserve | |
02/02/2023 | Kenton Seth | Crevice Gardening, Colorado and the world | |
01/12/2022 | Christmas Party | ||
03/11/2022 | Mika Brown | Iris in our Garden | |
20/10/2022 | Bill Dijk | Oncocylus Iris and other Bulbs | |
05/10/2022 | Philip Smith | Bulbs in a Landscaped Garden | |
17/09/2022 | Spring Show at the Botanical Expo | ||
17/09/2022 | Spring Show at the Botanical Expo | ||
01/09/2022 | Hamish Brown | Ranunculus Hunting with Steve Newall, SRGC sponsored trip | |
04/08/2022 | AGM | Workshops on seed sowing and showing | |
17/07/2022 | Social meeting | 2pm bring a plate and send your garden snaps to Hamish well before the big day | |
11/06/2022 | Hypertfa | Troughs plating and miniature garden workshops | |
02/06/2022 | Roland Dale | Living Legend of Fiordland | |
03/05/2022 | Phillip Mears | Winning the battle against the pests & diseases the low impact way | |
07/04/2022 | Fergus Garret | Great Dixter biodiversity and a tour | |
03/03/2022 | Sir Alan Mark | Author "Above the treeline" talks about the latest edition & ecology | |
03/02/2022 | Matthias Spall | Tells about his time working at Kew Gardens | |
02/12/2021 | Christmas Party | 5pm Kiosk Botanic Gardens | |
04/11/2021 | Robyn Kilty | Plant hunting | |
09/10/2021 | Botanical Expo | Covid solution at Broadfield Garden thanks to David Hobbs | |
07/10/2021 | Hamish Brown | A walk through Mika and Hamish's garden | |
02/09/2021 | Ian and Maggie Young | The famous Bulb blog writer with an equisite garden in Aberdeen | |
05/08/2021 | AGM plus Dave Pomare | Propagating those special plants that Society members like | |
03/06/2021 | Dave Toole | Patagonia NOTE 7.30pm mid-winter start time | |
06/05/2021 | Chris Gardner | Locked down in Paradise -Turkey's wild flowers | |
01/05/2021 | Workshop | Hypertufa Oamaru stone carving Mosaics | |
15/04/2021 | Barbara Wheeler | Longwood Gardens (NY) and the Longwood Fellow Programm | |
10/04/2021 | Workshop/Garden Visit | Preparing plants for the show bench potting on propagation | |
04/03/2021 | Steve Newell | A Mountain Legend in Australia's highest peaks | |
04/02/2021 | Gabor Csontos | ||
03/12/2020 | Christmas Party | 5pm Botanic Gardens Kiosk | |
06/11/2020 | Spring Garden Visit | West Melton | |
05/11/2020 | Shirley Russ | Round the Botanical World in 60 minutes | |
18/10/2020 | Ashburton Trip | ||
01/10/2020 | Alex Fergus | Flora of the Russian Far East | |
26/09/2020 | Botanical Expo | ||
26/09/2020 | Botanical Expo | ||
03/09/2020 | Grant Matheson | Christchurch Botanic Gardens "The Rock Garden" | |
06/08/2020 | AGM | The Botanical Memorabilia Collections of Barry Hancox | |
02/07/2020 | Masa Santo | Japanese Gardens inspired by the mountains NB 7.30pm start | |
12/03/2020 | Kenton Seth | World renowned crevice garden builder | |
26/01/2020 | 60th Anniversary Study Weekend | ||
25/01/2020 | 61st Anniversary Study Weekend | ||
24/01/2020 | 60th Anniversary Study Weekend | ||
05/12/2019 | Christmas Party | Botanic Gardens The Kiosk | |
09/11/2019 | Peninsula Trip | Ohinetahi and Orton Bradley Park | |
07/11/2019 | Rob Potterton | Overseas speaker of great repute Pottertons Nursery | |
05/09/2019 | Andrew Young | Alpine Rhododendrons | |
01/08/2019 | DVD with pop corn | The Remarkable Miss North | |
06/06/2019 | Heidi Meudt | Myosotis In New Zealand and beyond the latest in Te Papa | |
02/05/2019 | Suzanne Pickford | Sierra Nevadas | |
28/03/2019 | Linda Meyer | USA rock garden plants | |
07/03/2019 | Stuart Murray & Sam Eder | Autumn bulbs | |
07/02/2019 | Doreen Mear | Round the world in 80 slides: A globetrotting plant enthusiast | |
01/11/2018 | Todd Borland | Plants of New Foundlands Barrens where alpines meet the sea | |
04/10/2018 | Doug Logan | Botanical Adventures in Sikkum India | |
06/09/2018 | Stuart Murray | Maintaining a collection of rare and difficult alpines | |
02/08/2018 | DVD with pop corn | The Eden project | |
07/06/2018 | Ross Bicknell | Plieone Orchids | |
03/05/2018 | Anne Murray | Oxalis; Peoples choise; Most hated weed. | |
05/04/2018 | Edna Parkyn | Interesting garden plants | |
01/03/2018 | Steve Newall | Mecanopsis, Gentiana, Lewisia | |
01/02/2018 | Hamish Brown | Alpines of Japan | |
02/11/2017 | Gillian Dunkly | Silk Road tour | |
04/10/2017 | Dave Adams | Minnesota |
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