Eighth International Rock Garden Conference, 2011

[Maggi Young]

Forget the 2012 Olympics, the next event that we rockgardeners and alpine lovers are interested in is the next International Rock Garden Plant Conference... coming up in 2011.
These conferences are held every ten years and I know that many Forumists have attended more ofthese events than they perhaps care to count!
The eighth International Rock Garden Conference will be held at Nottingham University....a venue for a previous conference but one now wholly changed from the era of that distant gathering.
This long-anticipated event will be held at the Nottingham University  in the East Midlands Conference Centre from  Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th April, 2011.

The AGS is making the arrangements for the 2011 event and booking arrangements will be found on the AGS Website.  


See here for a flavour of the venue: http://www.nottinghamconferences.co.uk/emcc/


and here for the programme : http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/events/Eighth+International+Rock+Garden+Conference+/235/

 booking:

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/sales/conferences/bookings/2011/



EDIT: Postcode for the EMCC is NG7 2RJ to help with Directions!

[fermi de Sousa]

This long-anticipated event will be held at the Nottingham University in in the East Midlands Conference Centre from  April 13th to 17th  2011. That's Thursday 13th to Sunday 17th, I think.

I hope that won't clash with the Aberdeen SRGC Show! How can we attend both?
A few of us here in "the South" are already making plans for a visit.
cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

Fermi I hope there will be a little venture this way if you are planning to be in UK

[Maggi Young]

No chance of a clash with the Aberdeen Show,  because the Aberdeen Show Secretaries will be in Nottingham!!  Anyway, Aberdeen Show always has later May date, so safe enough!  I presume other shows that may clash will amend their dates?

Fermi, I'll make up a room for you !

[David Shaw]

It looks as if it may fall on the weekend between Edinburgh and Perth shows. No direct clash but it will be a busy period of time. I thought Alpines **** was usualy in the early summer?

[mark smyth]

It's almost a year since this thread was started. Time really goes by fast

[Susan Band]

Dates for the Perth show have been changed for 2011. Can't remember waht they have changed to.
Susan

[fermi de Sousa]

With a bit of luck the AGS will have some details to release soon   .... I suggest anyone interested in attending gives extra attention to their piggy bank in the meantime..... if in doubt... save as much as you can! It is unlikely to be the biggest bargain long weekend you've had!   

We're saving as much as we can, Maggi!  I hope to be able to use long service leave to extend the time we can spend in Europe so we can get to visit some Forum buddies in N.Ireland and Scotland andSweden and Germany and....
cheers
fermi

[Luc Gilgemyn]

so we can get to visit some Forum buddies in N.Ireland and Scotland andSweden and Germany and....
cheers
fermi

..............Belgium...... 

[Lvandelft]

..............Belgium......   

For those who don't know. 
This belongs to the Nether Lands (and is nearby where I live)        

[daveyp1970]

i can't wait for this event its only five minutes down the road for me

[Luc Gilgemyn]

..............Belgium......    

For those who don't know.  
This belongs to the Nether Lands (and is nearby where I live)      

Luit,
You are living dangerously......  

[Maggi Young]

i can't wait for this event its only five minutes down the road for me

You live near Nottingham, then, do you , Davey?
 We've been looking at the train route from Aberdeen.... seems very odd route.... via Crewe!!  I'd have thought an east coast route was more likely, but with the rail system today, who knows!???!! Mind you, in another couple of years, will there still be any rail system at all ? 

[Julia]

Just to let you know that the SRGC Perth Show is on the 8th April 2011. Yes we moved it from the normal date so not to clash with  Alpines 2011. We would welcome everyone from across the world!!
Julia    Perth Show Secretary

[Diane Clement]

The provisional programme is now available for the Eighth International Rock Garden Conference, 2011

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/events/Eighth+International+Rock+Garden+Conference+/235/


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 ‘Plant 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 Rober Rolfe ‘Location, Location Location: Alpines Near and Far, Narrowly Endemic and Nationalistic'
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 Jim Archibald ‘Beyond the Last Frontiers’
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’

  This programme now revised  in the light of the sad death of Jim Archibald... see post for 20th August page 5 of this thread
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2751.msg163631#msg163631