Winning photo for the 2020 Photo Competition taken by Helen Powell

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Our planned 2021 Speaker List has been updated on this website, but for the time being, everything is still on hold until we know it is safe to start holding meetings again. Please check on a case by case basis. We shall also update other Groups' details on the Calendar of Events where details are known, but again please check with them before assuming that things have restarted.

Welcome to the website of the Hardy Plant Society Dorset Group. We are a Group of gardening enthusiasts, of all levels of expertise, who enjoy listening to excellent speakers regularly, growing and  buying plants, and visiting beautiful gardens and nurseries. We welcome new members and visitors to all our events. The Group 
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We are one of the regional groups of the Hardy Plant Society, whose aims include stimulating interest in growing hardy perennials. In fact last year, 2018, we celebrated our 20th anniversary year since we were formed, by 21 members breaking away from the Hampshire Group in 1998. 

2021 Photo Competition

​​NEWS UPDATES

• 2nd April 2021 - We find we now have vacancies for our annual holiday to Cheshire in July 2021, which we are hoping to be able to run. We have been in contact with the hotel, coach company and gardens, and are very optimistic, but this will not go ahead unless we are allowed to do so safely. Click here for more details. Please contact us if you would like more information or to register your interest.
  
• 22nd March 2021 - We are in the process of confirming all of the components of last year's holiday with a view to hopefully being able to run it this year instead. We are liaising with the hotel, coach company and individual garden owners to ensure it is as covid safe as we can make it. Due to the current circumstances we now find we have spare places and would ask that if you are interested, you register that interest with us via the Contacts page. For more details of the trip click on the Holiday page.
• 28th February 2021 - Our AGM took place last weekend. As well as the committee, we were joined by a further 7 members. It was lovely to see you all. The Committee were all voted to continue for a further year, and the proposed changes to our Constitution were approved, and this has now been updated on the website. Click Here
• 13th January 2021 - The latest Hardy Times has been issued, together with all the paperwork relating to our 2021 AGM, to be held on Skype. Accompanying paperwork may be found by clicking here. Hard copies will also be posted to all our non email members.
• 10th January 2021 - We have had to cancel Anna Pavord, our Jan speaker, move Terry Baker from March to April, and Troy Scott-Smith from April to September 2021. We aim to keep you informed as we adjust our Schedule due to the pandemic
• 22nd November 2020 - The winner of the Photo Competition for this year is Helen Powell, see photo above. "Bees on Eryngium Silver Ghost" taken on the 4th August. Well done Helen! She won a £25 National Garden Voucher. To see all photos, click here 

Our 2019 Celebrity, Fergus Garrett, with our Chair, Debbie, Committee Member Judy Spratley, and local celebrity Neil Lucas from Knoll Gardens, who came along to enjoy the afternoon

SPECIAL NO. 16 HARDY TIMES APRIL 2021

Upcoming events, for Hardy Plant Society (Dorset & other Groups) and other local gardening events

Go to Calendar of Events to see what other gardening events are happening.