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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Margaret Thorne on August 30, 2025, 04:26:31 PM
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Please join us for the first Scottish Borders Rock Garden Group meeting of our 2025/26 programme. Our speaker will be Dave Millward, SRGC stalwart, who will present "Fire and ice: springtime in southern Chile" - some of the exciting alpines of the Andean volcanoes south of Santiago, including rosulate violas, oxalis and calceolarias and an incredible array of orchids. There are also insights into the 'primaeval' monkey puzzle forests and the rare Valdivian (temperate) rainforest. Lots of lovely alpines, but also much that we grow in our gardens, including Crinodendron, Embothrium, Tropaeolum, Gaultheria, Escallonia and Fuchsia.
The meeting will take place at 2pm at Bowden Village Hall, Bowden, Scottish Borders (3 miles south of Melrose, 2 miles west of Newtown St Boswells).
Admission is still only £2 which includes tea or coffee and home baking at the end of the meeting as well as a ticket for the raffle. There will also be plants for sale.
Everyone welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Scottish Borders Rock Garden Group
affiliated to the Scottish Rock Garden Club
Scottish Borders Rock Garden Group - Bowden Village Hall, Bowden, Melrose, TD6 0SN.
Meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month at 2pm.
Admission only £2 which includes a ticket for our raffle as well as tea or coffee and home baking, courtesy of members’ donations and dispensed by Alice’s team from Gattonside. Group plant sales at every meeting, thanks to Jim and Margaret, and show plants on view too. Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there.
David & Margaret Thorne, Joint Conveners
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Fire & Ice: springtime in Southern Chile
David Millward
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Garden Tales from Bradley Brook Farm
Mike Dale
Wednesday 5th November 2025
A tour of the Borders with a focus on NTG gardens and wild flowers in the region.
Colin Wren, NTS
Wednesday 3rd December 2025
Buried Treasures - Bulbs at RBGE
Scott Cook
Wednesday 7th January 2026
Speaker to be confirmed
Wednesday 4th February 2026
Addressing climate resilience through redesign.
Harry Watkins, St Andrews Botanic Garden
Wednesday 4th March 2026
Sardinia
Michael Almond
Wednesday 1st April 2026
European Alpines in Nature -A new Look
Jim Jermyn
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The North Northumberland Rock Garden Group
(Affiliated to the Scottish Rock Garden Club
and the Royal Horticultural Society)
Winter Programme 2025/26
All winter talks are held at:
Lowick Village Hall. TD15 2UA (unless otherwise stated)
Annual Membership is still £10pp and I will email about renewal separately.
Thursday 18th September 2025
Please note that we are holding our AGM in December this year
2.15pm Crimes behind the Compost Heap – Life and Death in your Garden - Stan da Prato
4.00pm Produce and Plant Sale-
Please bring along small amounts of garden produce, plants or preserves for sale. Please can members take home any unsold goods.
Thursday 16th October
2.15pm My Kind of Gardening - Tom Pattinson
Thursday 4th December
12.30pm Pooled buffet lunch – please bring a small amount of food to share
2.00pm AGM
2.30pm Different Types of Alpine Gardens - Mike Dale
Tea/coffee with mince pies and a Raffle
Thursday 15th January -ZOOM Presentation
2.15pm Prague Rock Garden Conference and Garden Tour, May 2023
Arguably the best Rock Gardeners in the World - Cliff Booker
Thursday 19th February -ZOOM Presentation
2.15pm Waves of Colour - Ian Young
Thursday 19th March
2.15pm The Andes - Helen Picton
Thursday 16th April
2.15pm How Low Can You Grow? Gorgeous Ground Cover for Smaller Spaces - Brian and Kathy Pike
4.00pm Plant and Produce Sale-
Non-members are welcome to join us for 2 meetings for free, before joining
Group Convenor:
(2025) Jen Croall
Southlaws House, Swinton, Duns, TD11 3HZ
Mob. 07971908471
jdcroall@btinternet.com
Secretary:
(2022) Gordon Cameron
Westhills House, Rothbury, Morpeth, NE65 7YR
Mob. 07713019967
gordon@westhillshouse.co.uk
Treasurer:
(2025) Alan Briggs
Beechburn, Bowden, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 2TW
alan.atrb@gmail.com
Committee:
(2022) Alison McCormick
(2022) Gillian Wheeler
(2020) Mercy Collin
(2023) Christine McCreath
(2023) Jill Thomasson