AGM Weekend 2018 – A Report from Billy McCone, IGPS Chairperson

Organised this year by the Northern region, a  great weekend was enjoyed by over ninety members and guests at our 37th AGM held at the Burrendale Hotel, Newcastle ,County Down.  After the meeting on the Saturday the delegates were  bused to Castlewellan Forest Park where they had a guided tour of the  internationally famed Arboretum […]

“A View from the Palm House” – Matthew Jebb at Malone House

In his talk ‘A View from the Palm House’, Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens, entranced a large audience in Belfast with a series of inter-connections between art, architecture, plants, people, invasive species, climate change and much more besides.