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Rhododendron Show & Exhibition, 26th April 2025.
Venue : The Gibson Hall, Garelochhead, Argyll.
Full details of exhibition-day timetable, show schedule and other useful information now available on our Show Page 2025
Spring Gardens Tour 2025
Your tours committee are organising a weekend tour to gardens along TAYSIDE.
The Tour will start at Stirling on the 2rd May, meeting locally and driving up to Braco Castle – where around 2.00 pm Jodi Simpson will guide us round the extensive gardens, many of you will have visited in Autumn in 2023. We then continue to Dundee, Premier Inn West with attached Beefeater restaurant. (You book your own accommodation for 2 days.)
Saturday morning, 3rd May 10.00 we meet at NTS Branklyn Gardens, one of the outstanding gardens in Scotland, lunch/or snack at the tearoom. We then head to Dundee Botanic Gardens again a garden with many interesting areas including rhododendrons. Return to Premier Inn – Dundee West
Sunday morning, 4th May 10.00 we meet Glendoick Garden, world famous for its gardens and rhododendron and azalea plant nurseries, both species and hybrids. We hope that the gardens and nurseries Tour will be led by Ken Cox.
Lunch in the Restaurant and then you are free to make your way home.
Do not book anything until we confirm tour is going ahead, thanks, Willie Campbell
Please Note: Suggested accommodation is Premier Inn – Dundee West
For more information please contact us.
SRS/RSCG Joint Autumn Conference 2025
Details to be announced.
Past Events
SRS/RSCG Joint Autumn Conference Oct 5th 2024
Botanical exploration isn’t consigned to the history books and is in fact more relevant than ever. With more and more plants coming under threat, an understanding of how they grow and interact within their natural habitats plays an important role in knowing how to best conserve them.
Find out more about today’s botanical travellers at our Autumn Conference joint with the Rhododendron Species Conservation Group (RSCG). Maybe you, like our speakers, will feel inspired to follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest plant explorers such as George Forrest and Frank Kingdon-Ward.
‘Modern-day Botanical Travellers’
Venue: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Conference Room.
Members of SRS and RSCG all Welcome.
Start time: 9:30am
A small selection of images from presentations
Speakers :
- Richard Moore – on his trip to NE Nepal.
- Colin Jones – about his botanical trip to Yunnan.
- Jeanie Jones – shares her knowledge about Primulas from across the Himalaya and Turkey.
- Grant Moir – talks about seeing plants in the wilds of NW Yunnan.
more details in Presidents newsletter 05/10/24