Events
Royal Horticultural Society Seminar
At Home with Mediterranean Climate Plants
Wednesday, 14 March, 2007
RHS Conference Centre, Westminster, London
Organised by RHS Tender Ornamental Plant Committee
Following on from the success of seminar days on the plants of South Africa and Australia organised by the Tender Ornamental Plant Committee. This seminar day looks at the plants from all the Mediterranean climates of the world and how we might grow them at home, both inside and out. It coincides with the March London Flower Show, which has Mediterranean Plants as it theme.
Tickets cost £15 (includes tea & coffee), and are available by telephoning 0845 612 1253, or by sending payment to the RHS Membership Department, 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE, being sure to mention ‘At Home with Mediterranean Climate Plants 14 March’.
Programme
9.30am Show opens
10.15am Registration and coffee
10.40am Welcome and Introduction: Valerie Payne, Chairman, Tender Ornamental Plant Committee
10.45am Mediterranean Climates - what, where and why by Wolfgang Bopp
11am Inspirational Plants of the Mediterranean Climates by Roy Lancaster
11.45am Growing Plants Three short presentations about growing Mediterranean climate plants outdoors in Norfolk (Bill Boardman), Oxford (Tim Miles) and Yorkshire (Matthew Pottage), followed by a question and answer session
12.45pm Lunch break
1.45pm Controlling Climates Two short presentations on microclimatology outdoors (Nick Wray) and conservatories and domestic greenhouses (Terry Read), followed by an insight into the progress with and climate control in the new RHS Bicentenary Glasshouse (Nick Morgan), and a question and answer session
3pm Tea and coffee
3.25pm Plant Groups Three short presentations on Mediterranean geophytes (Terry Smale), shrubs (Tracy Wilson) and on herbaceous plants in the dry garden at Hyde Hall (Ian Bull), followed by a question and answer session
4.25pm Scilly Plants by Mike Nelhams, Curator at Tresco Abbey Gardens showing images of and talking about plants from all the Mediterranean climates on the Isles of Scilly.
Followed by questions and summing up
Event concludes at 5pm, but the London Flower Show will still be open.
There will also be various exhibits in the registration and tea/coffee area, including water use in gardens, images of Mexican plants that have the potential to be grown in the UK and cut flower material.
On arrival please enter the Conference Centre by the separate door situated at the right of the Lawrence Hall façade (in Greycoat Street). Registration will take place on the second floor of the conference centre; there is a lift available from reception. Please move down to the Lecture Theatre on the first floor in time to be seated by 10.15am.