Alpine Garden Society - Dublin Group
Alpine Garden Society - Dublin GroupInformation about our venues is available further down this page, here.
(Previous fixtures for 2011 are listed at the bottom of this page, here.)
The programme of our sister group, the Alpine Garden Society - Ulster Group, is available here.
The 2012 programme is as follows:
Annual General Meeting, followed by Michael Higgins ‘National Botanic Gardens through the Seasons’.
Lunch, followed by Mary Waldron ‘Gardens in Other Lands’.
Deborah Begley, ‘Terra Nova - full of little surprises and debradations'.
Spring Local Show, Workshop and Members’ Plant Sale.
Ian Christie, Workshop - ‘Woodland Plants’.
Pam Eveleigh, ‘Let’s Talk Primulas! (The Genus Primula)’.
Visit to Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. Joint with I.G.P.S.
Dublin Group AGS Show.
Declan Doogue, ‘Garden Plants and their Wild Irish Cousins’. Joint with Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club.
Field trip to Bull Island with Declan Doogue.
Visits to the gardens of Patricia McGuire & Gavin Moore.
Keith Wiley, ‘A Holistic approach to Plants’. Joint with I.G.P.S.
Carl Wright, ‘Wild about the Garden – Embracing Nature’.
Speakers: Ian Young, Martin Walsh & Rod Leeds.
Christmas Miscellany.
The Society uses two venues for lectures and local shows in Dublin:
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Southside events are held in St Brigid’s Parish Centre, Stillorgan. To get there, turn up Brewery Road from the N11 (Stillorgan Rd), then immediately right into St Brigid’s Church Rd (which runs parallel to the N11). The Centre is just beyond Merville Rd, on the left. If you are coming from the M50, turn down Brewery Road from the Leopardstown roundabout (2nd exit) and then take the second left. Parking outside the Centre is difficult, but there is a car park very close. Turn up Merville Rd and take the turning into the car park 50 metres up on the right. |
Northside lectures are held in the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. There is car parking in the Gardens, at a charge of 2.00 Euros.
Those from the Southside planning to attend events in the National Botanic Gardens might like to check The O2 website (previously The Point Depot) to see if there is a concert on before planning their route.
Wednesday, 19 January, Annual General Meeting, followed by Brendan Marnell, ‘Alpine Shrubs – Tall and Small’.
Saturday, 12 February, Annual Lunch, followed by Carmel Duignan, ‘My Garden and other Plants’.
Thursday, 17 February, Sidney Clarke, ‘Plant hunting with a Camera’.
Saturday, 12 March, Spring Local Show, Workshop and Members’ Plant Sale.
Thursday, 24 March, Kevin Hughes, ‘Trilliums and Associated Flora of South East USA’.
Saturday, 9 April, Dublin Group AGS Show.
Thursday, 21 April, Seamus O’ Brien, ‘Kilmacurragh and the Plant Hunters - 300 Years of History’.
Saturday, 7 May, Ulster Group AGS Show.
Weekend of 21/22 May, Garden Visits to Lorna McMahon’s Ardcarraig Garden in Galway, and Carl Wright’s Caher Bridge Garden in the Burren.
Saturday, 18 June, Garden Visit to the garden of Billy & Anne Moore, Churchtown, Dublin.
Sunday 14 August, Garden Visits to the gardens of June Blake and Jimi Blake, Blessington, Co. Wicklow.
Thursday, 13 October, Jim Almond, ‘Fritillaries and Other Bulbs’.
Saturday, 15 October, Jim Almond, Photographic Workshop.
Thursday, 10 November, Susan Tindall, 'Alpines at High & Low Altitudes'.
Friday, 18 November to Sunday, 20 November. 28th Alpine Weekend, Termonfeckin.
Thursday, 8 December, Christmas Miscellany.