Autumn 2024 meeting Our next meeting will be on Sunday 20th October 2024. The speaker for this meeting is Alex Summers, who was until recently the curator of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now working in a National Trust garden. He will give a talk (title to be agreed). The NBGW has a large section devoted to plants from regions with a Mediterranean climate, including a collection of South African bulbs.

Spring 2024 meeting Our Spring 2024 meeting was on Sunday 24th March 2024. The speaker for this meeting was Timothy Walker. He is a very well known speaker, his lectures renowned for being both informative but also highly entertaining. He was formerly the Director of Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum, which under his leadership won four gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Currently he is a lecturer in Plant Sciences at Oxford University.

Past, present and future meetings The next meeting is the Autumn 2024 meeting. Meeting dates The Southern African Bulb group has held or will hold meetings on the following dates: Date Location

Other meetings * Saturday in October 2024: Nerine visit day * both organised by the Nerine and Amaryllid Society at the Five Arrows Gallery, Exbury Gardens, Exbury, Southampton SO45 1AX, by kind invitation of Nicholas de Rothschild and Theo Herselman. These events are for NAAS members, but SABG members are also invited; see the

SABG Noticeboard * The SABG Autumn meeting will be on Sunday 20th October 2024 at Badger’s Farm Community Centre (a change to the originally published provisional date). More details below. * [Newsletter no. 50] (March 2024) is available. * Bulletin no. 50/1 (15 March 2024) has been emailed.

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If you are not a member, and you have looked around our web-site to see what we do, you might look at How to join the SABG. You can find contact details (email addresses) for certain members of the SABG committee on the Contacts page. Members Committee members can access information about SABG members in the