Conserving the diversity of garden plants.

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, pelargoniums and the collection of camellias planted at Government House.
We are also 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?

Our current projects

Currently there are four conservation projects:

The Nerine Collection

The Camellia Collection at Government House

The Pelargonium Collection

The setting up of a Caparne Iris Collection

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Now is the time to put out your lacewing shelter. It needs to be full of straw with a special pheromone attractant to persuade the lacewings to overwinter in a lovely home. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey

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The Nerines have all been cleaned of their dead leaves and are just ready to begin throwing up flower spikes. They will be perfect for our Nerine festival, which runs from Saturday, 7 - Saturday 21 October at Guernsey Gardens. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #nerine

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A couple of the planters on the old petrol pump bases at the bottom of Candie Road. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers

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Iberis, which I remember as candytuft, seems to be in flower much earlier this year. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #iberis #candytuft #whiteflowers

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Allow your artichokes to seed and the birds will be happy. Are they interested in the seed or the bugs in there? #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #artichokeseeds

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Solanum, the potato vine, is almost always in flower, but most profusely in Guernsey from early summer to winter. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #solanum #whiteflowers

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Fragaria 'Red Ruby', produces no fruit and is grown as a flowering, low growing, ornamental ground cover that spreads by wire-like stolons. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers

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Have a look for your Haemanthus coccineus, the paintbrush lily. They appear from seemingly nothing, but what a welcome burst of colour at this time of year. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #haemanthuscoccineus

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Herbaceous clematis, which flowers later in the year and is very easy to grow.

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