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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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07/05/2026 | Matt Walters | Adventures of a Science communicator.
| Matt will share his photos of his trips as a science photographer and communicator, from Africa to the Chatham Islands. |
02/04/2026 | Dylan Norfield | Singapore - from gardens to flower show. Congress on 'Succession Planning and Resilience in the face of climate change' | Dylan Norfield is the Curator / Collections Supervisor managing on the ground plant
collections and staff for the Dunedin Botanic Gardens. |
05/03/2026 | Hamish Brown | Lime-loving plants in the garden | Lime-loving plants in the garden |
12/02/2026 | Alan Ayton | The Alpine Flora of Tasmania | I bought on a whim a Draba cretica, and so began my dive into the wonderful world of Alpines and alpine like plants. |
06/11/2025 | Clint Callens from Belgium | Steve Newall Speaker : Clint Callens | Collecting, cultivating, hybridising and growing rare shade-loving plants |
02/10/2025 | Pieter Pelser and Julie Barcelona | Rafflesia | Rafflesia |
04/09/2025 | Suzanne Pickford | Great Garden Designers | Designers (and nurseries) of South East UK and a dabble in the EU |
07/08/2025 | Paul Maurice | AGM + Paul Maurice | Spring in the Stans, a Botanical Journey through Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan |
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 |
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