IMPORTANT UPDATE Following the UK Government’s restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 outbreak the HPS Office has closed and all meetings have been cancelled. If you need to contact us please use e-mail if possible and we will respond to all queries although this may take a little longer than normal.
A registered charity promoting hardy herbaceous plants, we grow and study these plants in our own gardens, and try to keep rarer varieties in cultivation. We share our knowledge and love of these plants with other gardeners whether they're experts, beginners or somewhere in between.
ALD/AGM Cancellation
Disappointingly, we have had to cancel the Annual Lecture Day and AGM planned for 5th September.
Members will automatically receive full refunds for their ticket(s).
As the office is closed, refunds for postal bookings will take a little while, so please bear with us in these difficult times.
While we are not able to meet or visit other gardens, most gardeners are spending more time in our own gardens. So take a look at the new HPS companion page, Hardy Plant Community, an informal place for sharing your photos, favourite plants, tips or gardening experiences. You don't have to be an HPS member to join.
The Hardy Plant Society continues to follow official government and NHS advice on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation, and with the country still under lockdown our Office at the Basepoint Centre in Evesham remains closed.
Dianthus 'Gold Dust' is said to have been raised from a batch of Allwoodii Alpinus Group seed around 1970 and named by S. Jackson in 1981 who found the plant in a garden in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley. The garden owner had bought it from a stallholder at a local fete who had grown it from seed.
What happened to the famous April showers? Many plants are much more advanced this year with most trees in full leaf already and some plants flowering several weeks earlier than usual. I just hope that we don’t get a late frost this year ...
If you are working from home, homeschooling children, or having to take care of all aspects of your own life without your usual support network, you might not have even more time to mow your lawns (or if you are like our elderly neighbour you might run out of petrol for your mower and be reliant on others to get you more). Why not let the grass grow?
