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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 | Description |
|---|---|---|
22/09/2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | NZAGS Spring show, Daffodil show, Floral Art, rare plant sales and more... |
21/09/2024 | Botanical Expo 2024 | NZAGS Spring show, Daffodil show, Floral Art, rare plant sales and more... |
07/07/2024 | Tony Bywater | 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 |
01/02/2024 | Alan Jolliffe | 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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