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4th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
LOENEN, THE NETHERLANDS - PROGRAMME
MAY Friday 4thSunday 6th 2012


Friday 4th May
13.00 Coach arrives from Ferry Ports
14.00 Meet for Buffet Lunch at The Landhotel Bosoord
15.30 "Saxifrages in a Changing World” - Malcolm McGregor
16.30 "Ups and downs with the genus Saxifraga in Belgium". - Kris De Raeymaeker
18.00 Dinner
19.30 “My Experiences Breeding Porophyllum Saxifrages". - David Walkey
 
Saturday 5th May
0900 Coach departs for Utrecht Botanic Garden
10.00 Arrive at Utrecht Botanic Garden
Mr. Gerard van Buiten, the head of Alpines at the garden will be showing us around.
Otherwise delegates are free to look around the garden, take lunch (not included in the tour price) and visit the plant sale of the Nederlandse Rotsplanten Vereniging (Dutch Alpine Garden Society).
16.00 Leave for The Landhotel Bosoord
18.00 Dinner
19.30 “New Porophyllum Cultivars and their Cultivation” – Adrian Young (with written contributions from Karel Lang)
 
Sunday 6th May
09.00 Saxifrage Society Annual A.G.M.
10.30 “Cultivation of Ciliate saxifrages” – The Arctic Alpine Garden, Tromso
11.30 Presentation by Tim Roberts
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Closing address - Ger van den Beuken
15.00 Coach Leaves for UK ferry terminals.

Please note – The Programme is subject to change without notice. Please remember all speakers do so free of charge and are under no obligation to appear.
 


 

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