British Cactus and Succulent Society

President:

Bill Keen

Chairman:

John Arnold

Hon Secretary:

Eddy Harris

Northampton & Milton Keynes Branch

We are a local branch of the National Society which holds monthly meetings in Northampton with members from west Northamptonshire and the Milton Keynes area. We have guest speakers, slide presentations, quizzes, demonstrations, open days at members’ collections and other social events.

Our members also participate in events organised by Zone 6, the thriving South Midlands Zone of the National Society.

At our meetings we offer plants for sale. For society members there is an extensive lending library with a wide selection of books and journals. We produce a magazine  three times a year and a monthly bulletin to keep you in touch with branch events and other topical matters of interest.

Members of other branches of the BCSS and visitors are welcome at our meetings.

We hope that you will read this web page and make contact with others in the area who are interested in growing cacti and other succulent plants.

Meetings are held at:

Abington Community Centre,

Wheatfield Road South,

NORTHAMPTON (see map)

NN3 2HH (see Google map)

at 7.30 pm on the first Friday of most months

Please contact the Branch Secretary:

Mrs. Diana Capel

Tel: 01604 412550

 

The webmaster is Trev bcssnmk@aol.com

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

2008

Jan 4th  AGM, /At home and more...
Feb 1st  Aloes through the ages Colin Walker
Feb 23rd Zone 6 Convention  at MK (Marlon Machado and Petr Pavelka)
March 7th Succulents in detail Bill Morris
April 4th Big Bend Graham Walker
April 26th Branch Auction at Nether Heyford Village Hall
May 2nd Growable Gasterias Derek Tribble
June 6th Branch Evening Show (Schedule to be announced)
June 7th  Zone 6 Show at the Ruislip Centre hosted by Harrow Branch
July 4th Ariocarpus Geoff Bailey
July 26/27th Branch Open Show at Billing Garden Village (Schedule available here )
Aug 1st Travels amongst Australasian Alpines Robin Alabaster
Aug 16th

BCSS National Show at Cambridge (Wood Green Animal Shelter, London Road, Godmanchester, near Huntingdon, PE29 2NH.) 

To see our report on the last National in 2004 click here

Sept 5th Mesemb Workshop Suzanne Mace
Oct 3rd Small Opuntias John Betteley
Nov 7th Nevada David Minnion
Dec 5th  Euphorbias for you Gillian Evison

2009

Jan 2nd AGM/At home and 'Trev does Baja'

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