Local Groups

There are around 40 local groups in the UK and national members are invited to join the group nearest to them. Each group offers a wide range of gardening activities including informative lectures from local and national gardening speakers, garden visits and plant sales together with educational and social events throughout the year. Most groups also produce their own newsletters.

Specialist Groups

Within the society there are specialist groups that members can join. They produce their own newsletters and organise meetings and events for fellow enthusiasts.

Gardening By Post

The Correspondents Group ensures that members who are unable to attend meetings can remain in touch with one another and exchange gardening ideas and information.

Seed Distribution

Every member can join the annual Seed Distribution Scheme by obtaining or donating hardy perennial seed. The Seed List offers over 2,000 tempting varieties of rare, unusual and familiar seeds.

Events

Throughout the year there are a wide range of events hosted by local group members, from plant study days to residential weekends to garden visits. The Society also organises overseas garden tours.

Shows

Our exhibits at major shows throughout the country stimulate interest in hardy plants. Visitors can see hardy plants in bloom and leaf in their natural season and find out more about the work of the Society.

Plant Fairs

HPS local group plant sales are the perfect place to find unusual and garden worthy perennial plants for your garden, at very competitive prices. Most are raised within a few miles of the sale venue by enthusiastic hardy plant members. We will help you find a plant to suit your garden - be it wet or dry, clay or sandy soil. Hardy Planters have a wealth of experience of growing plants so make the most of their expertise at an HPS local group plant sale.

Photo Libraries

An extensive library of slides and digital images covering a wide range of hardy plants and related topics is available to members on loan. These have mostly been donated by keen photographers in the Society

Conservation

The Hardy Plant Society is concerned about the conservation of garden plants. Countless fine plants have totally disappeared from cultivation and remain but a memory. The society is working towards ensuring that older, rarer and lesser known perennial plants are conserved and made available to gardeners generally.

Publications

All members of the Hardy Plant Society receive a journal, The Hardy Plant, twice a year. Illustrated in colour with contributions from leading UK and international plant enthusiats, it contains authorative articles on hardy perennials as well as contributions from members.

A newsletter is circulated three times a year which provides information on all of the Society's events, activities, interests and group contacts.

Lists of members private gardens that can be visited, members who provide Bed & Breakfast accomodation and a register of lecturers are updated annually and available to members of request.

The Society also publishes a series of modestly priced booklets on special plant families which include Hardy Geraniums, Pulmonarias, Hostas, Euphorbias, Phlox, Campanulas and Success with Seed.

Joining the Hardy Plant Society

For details on how you can join the National Hardy Plant Society, please follow this link.

Contacting the HPS

You can contact the HPS by emailing admin@hardy-plant.org.uk, telephoning 01386 710317 (+44 (0) 1386 710317 from outside the UK), writing to The Hardy Plant Society at Little Orchard, Great Comberton, Pershore, WR10 3DP or by using our Contact Us form.