Lectures

Below is a list of my lectures. Some possible new ones for winter 2008 are included. If your club is interested please check to see if they are ready. So far I have lectured in Northern Ireland, Scotland, USA and South Africa

‘The Four Seasons’

Plants to give colour, in the garden, from January to December.

 

‘White Fever’ aka ‘Top of the ‘drops’

Did you know there are 19 species of snowdrop and over 600+ cultivars?

 

‘Croconuts’ including Colchicums

Crocus for the garden

 

‘Meet the ‘bills – cranesbills, storksbills and heronsbills’

When is a Geranium not a Geranium? Geraniums, Erodiums & Pelargoniums.

 

‘Daisy Paradise – daisies for the garden’

The daisy family has the smallest daisy and the largest sunflower.

 

‘Buried Treasures’ also ‘Spring Bulbs’ and ‘Autumn Bulbs’

A closer look at bulbs for the garden

‘Small Wonders’

Easy alpines, how and where to grow them.

 

‘A Year in a Life’

A month by month look at flowers in my garden. Bulbs, alpines and perennials

 

New for winter 2008

 

'Buttercups'

The Ranunculus family – including Buttercups, Clematis, Hellebores, Anemones and Hepaticas.