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International Rock Garden Conference
17-08-2010

Alpines without Frontiers
Conference 2011
The 8th International Rock Garden Conference will take place in Nottingham at the
East Midlands Conference Centre from Thursday, 14 April to Sunday, 17 April 2011. 

The Conference Centre has excellent facilities with regard to both space, as well as audio and projection equipment.

Assisted places are available for students or individuals who are on horticultural courses or who have embarked upon a career in horticulture within the last ten years.

For application forms, or Online Booking, go to:  2011 Conference Booking

Provisional Programme
There will be a one-day show at the Conference venue on Saturday 16 April.

Thursday 14 April 2011
15.00-16.00
Registration
16.00-16.30
Tea
16.30-17.30
Welcome & Opening Lecture-Brian Mathew: provisional title Ever-changing Frontiers: of all sorts!
19.30 onwards
Dinner
 
David Haselgrove : Southern Hemisphere Treats

Friday 15 April 2011
09.00-10.00
Harry Jans : Pant Hunting on the Roof of the World
10.00-11.00
John Richards : Asiatic Primulas Old and New
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
Martin Walsh : The High and Low in the Himalaya
12.50-14.15
Lunch
13.30-15.00
WORKSHOPS
15.00-16.00
Robert Rolfe :Location, Location Location: Alpines Near and Far, Narrowly Endemic and Nationalistic
16.00-16.30
Tea
16.30-17.30
not known yet
19.30 onwards
Dinner
 
Plant Auction

Saturday 16 April 2011
There will be a one-day National AGS/SRGC Show all day.

09.00-10.00
Keith Wiley : An Holistic Approach to Alpines in the Garden
10.00-11.00
Todd Boland : Alpine Plants of Newfoundland through to the Appalachians
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
Bob Wallis : Fritillaries on Four Continents
12.50-14.15
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Free Time (to allow opportunity to see Show)
15.00-16.00
John Good : Alpines in a changing world
16.00-16.30
Tea
16.30-17.30
John Watson : Three decades in the Andes
19.30 onwards
Dinner
 
Roy Lancaster : My world of Plants

Sunday 17 April 2011
09.00-10.00
Ian Young : Highland Gathering
10.00-11.00
Michael Kammerlander : Juno Iris – the Persica Group and Some Others
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
John Grimshaw : Giants and Dwarfs: the Alpines of Africa
12.50-14.15
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Workshops
15.00-16.00
Vojtech Holubec : Central Asia: Plants under burning sun and cooling snow
16.00-16.30
Tea
15.00-16.00
Christopher Grey-Wilson : A Lifetime of Alpines

Online Booking is Available:  2011 Conference Online Booking


New magazine "the International Rock Gardener"
17-08-2010

Open these Pdf papers to enjoy some beautiful images and good information about rare and difficult plants.

January 2010: 2010Feb021265151070IRG__Issue_1__January_2010.pdf

Februari 2010: 2010Feb281267370145International_Rock_Gardener_Issue_2_February_2010.pdf

March 2010: 2010Mar311270058840IRG_March_2010.pdf

April 2010: 2010Apr291272579490IRGApril_.pdf

May 2010: 2010May271274998232IRG_5_May.pdf

June 2010: 2010Jul141279102139IRGJUNE.pdf

July 2010: 2010Jul291280437029IRG7_July2010.pdf