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Grand Plant sale Sunday 10th May 2026

PeteB — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:56 +0000

Our annual Grand Plant Sale will take place on Sunday 10th May 2026 between 10a.m. and 12noon. The sale will take place at The Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, Beds SG188JH. Free entry and parking next to the venue. … Continue reading →

Thank you Val. Meeting Saturday 11th April 2026

PeteB — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:30:13 +0000

Thank you Val for giving us a very interesting and humorous talk on your garden at Spring Cottage this afternoon. Our members and visitors thoroughly enjoyed it. We look forward to our next talk on Saturday 9th May 2026 when … Continue reading →

Group Outing Sunday 5th July 2026

PeteB — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:45:20 +0000

A coach outing has been arranged for Sunday 5th July 2026. The trip will be visiting Easton Walled Garden and Norwell Nursery. The coach will leave Biggleswade Railway Station at 9.00a.m. and return at approximately 5.45p.m. The cost will be £49 per person which includes cost of coach and garden entry to both locations.

Further details can be obtained by emailing cambsbedshps@gmail.com or by contacting a member of the committee.

Programme for 2026 Lectures

PeteB — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 09:32:30 +0000

The full Programme for 2026 has now been published. Please see the Programme Page for full details. Our first talk of the year will be on Saturday 7th February 2026 when Jim Paine will speak on Closer to Nature A … Continue reading →

Cambs and Beds Group Conservation Information

PeteB — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:10:25 +0000

Cambs and Beds HPS Conservation Scheme

Nationally the HPS runs a conservation scheme to save cultivars of hardy perennials, that are in danger of possible extinction. This could be for many reasons, ranging from changing tastes to difficulty in growing on for the retail trade. It would be a shame to lose many of these plants for posterity and therefore a group of us here at Cambs and Beds do our best to propagate and disseminate these plants every year.

All members are welcome to join in. A list of conservation plants can be found on the national website, and anyone wishing to join, just let me know what plants you would like to propagate and I will endeavour to supply them.

For those who have plants I have designed a table, which is just a quick go-to, to show the method and time of year for propagation of our conservation plants.

Peter Johnson

Propagation Table

Plant	Division	Cutting
Arabis Alpina		Softwood or semi-ripe Summer
Astilbe	Spring
Bergenia	Rhizome Autumn
Chrysanthemum	Spring	Basal Softwood Spring
Epimedium	Autumn
Erigeron	Spring	Basal
Erysimum		Soft or Semi-ripe Spring or Summer
Geranium	Spring	Basal Softwood Early to mid spring
Helianthus	Spring Autumn	Basal or Root Spring
Hemerocalis	Spring Autumn
Heuchera	Late Spring
Hylotelephinium		Softwood
Iris	Rhizome division Leave top exposed
Penstemon	Spring	Softwood early summer Semi-ripe midsummer
Persicaria		Runners – Nodes of stem in contact with ground
Phlox maculata	Spring Autumn	Basal cuttings Spring Root cuttings Late Autumn
Phlox paniculata	Spring Autumn	Basal cuttings Spring Root cuttings Late Autumn
Pulmonaria	Autumn	Root cuttings
Rodgersia	Spring
Silene x walken	Spring	Basal softwood Early spring
Symphyotrichum	Spring	Rooted Stem Cuttings from the edge
Veratum album	Autumn
Vinca minor		Layering
Rudbeckia	Spring Autumn
Zantadeschia	Spring	Or detach offsets