Plant Heritage Guernsey

Plant Heritage Guernsey

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Conserving the diversity of garden plants

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WELCOME TO PLANT HERITAGE GUERNSEY

Welcome to Plant Heritage Guernsey. We are proud to be affiliated to Plant Heritage in the UK.

guernsey at heart

Here in Guernsey we have around 300 members who enjoy our annual programme of plant sales, lectures, garden visits and the well-established Nerine Festival.

We are keen to conserve plants that thrive or are linked with Guernsey and have several on-going projects.

key projects

Our projects include an expanding nerine collection, which was designated a National Collection in 2017, 19thC clematis collections, pelargoniums and the collection of camellias planted at Government House.
We also have a collection of jovibarbas and are setting up a Caparne Iris collection.
Help is always required and very welcome.

get involved

We send out a newsletter three times a year and have copies of the Plant Heritage Journal available to collect at our events.

Membership is only £12.00 a year (one or a couple) and many events are free. Why not join us today?

Plant Heritage Guernsey Current Projects

Currently there are six conservation projects (learn more here):

The Nerine Collection.

The 19thC Clematis Collections.

The Camellia Collection at Government House.

The Jovibarba Collection.

The Pelargonium Collection

The setting up of a Caparne Iris Collection.

 Latest news:

Nerine Festival article

This article was printed in the latest journal of the Nerine and Amaryllid Society. It will whet your appetite for our next Festival, which begins on Saturday, 10th October at Guernsey Gardens.

Tattie on the JK-T show

Tattie Thompson and Jenny Kendall-Tobias had a lovely chat about the autumn plant stall and many other things beside. It is fun to listen on this link. Their conversation begins at about 12:19pm, which is 2hrs 19mins into the show on Thursday, 3rd September. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08nv97b

Nerine cultural hints

We have a series of working parties helping with the Nerines. The next ones are on Tuesday, 16th June, 2020 at 2:00pm and Thursday, 18th June at 10:00am. Please contact Rose on 255537 if you would like to join us. In the meantime here is a download of our Nerine Cultural Hints.

 Read past news and articles here