Photo taken by Helen McIllmurray, a new member

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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. 

​For photos and write up of previous meetings ​click here.

Gilly Baxter, winner of the 2018 Photographic Competition, collecting her prize from James Alexander Sinclair

​​NEWS UPDATES

• 3rd September 2019 - Prospect House Trip went well. See Events/Previous Events for write up and photos 
• Full write up of our wonderful holiday in Kent, click on Events/Holiday for more details
  
• 2nd Aug 2019 - Twin Scaling demonstration held by Jane Norris at her home. 5 members got together to find out more about how to propagate snowdrop bulbs by this unusual method. For write up and photos - click here. 
• 23rd July  2019 - Gardeners' Question Time Report and photos - click here. The 2 shows recorded will air on Radio 4 on 2nd Aug and 23rd Aug at 3 pm and then repeated the following Sunday at 2 pm. If you missed the first one and the repeat, you can still listen to it by clicking on link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00076v0
• 21st July  2019 - GQT now SOLD OUT
• 24th Jun 2019 - Sale of Gardeners' Question Time Tickets now available to local horticultural societies and general public. See details and poster below to see how to apply for tickets.
• 13th Jun 2019 - We have been chosen to host a recording of 2 episodes of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time on Tuesday 23rd July at 5.30 pm. Members given first opportunity to purchase tickets at £4.50 each.
• 9th Jun 2019 - Back to Manor Farm, see Calendar of Events. Fergus Garrett tickets will be available there.
• Also check out the write up for our day Trip to Savill Garden, written by Marion Davies, together with some of her photos. See Events/Day Trips

HARDY TIMES FOR SUMMER 2019

Our 2019 season continues with,

CHARLES DOWDING
will be giving an illustrated talk on healthy food
from no dig growing, with massive time savings too.
It’s more about conserving the “heritage” of soil
than of specific plants.  He has explored and
shared new ways to garden since 1983, most
notably no dig organic gardening, and since
2003 has developed ways to continuous-crop
salad leaves.  He’ll discuss his weed-free, no-dig
methods to achieve superb and time-saving results
in both small and large gardens. He sells produce
from Homeacres, his bio-intensive and no dig garden,
has written nine books on no dig and organic
gardening, writes for national and international
magazines, runs a YouTube channel, appears
on TV and radio including BBC Gardeners’ World,
and teaches extensively at home and abroad. 
He’ll be bringing 2020 calendars and some of
his books to sell.

Please note that this is a Wednesday
evening meeting and not our usual 
Saturday afternoon get-together.
See poster (left) for more details.

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.