NB: Subsidised cost of £20 (Plant Heritage members), £25 (non-members). Booking is essential by November 9th 2025, unless attending AGM only. On Saturday 15th November 2025, from 10am until 4.30pm at Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre, Buckfast, Devon, TQ11 0EE. Annual General Meeting of Plant Heritage, Devon & Cornwall Group. 10am: Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available during the day along with sales tables of plants, books, garden miscellanea and a raffle. 10.30am: Annual General Meeting of Plant Heritage, Devon & Cornwall Group. 11.30am: Speaker is Mike Nelhams with a talk entitled “Tresco Abbey Garden, Paradise Island”. Mike Nelhams first went to Tresco on a Studley Trust Scholarship as a student in 1976. He trained for three years at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley, and after managing a woodland garden in Sussex for five years, he returned to Tresco Abbey Garden in 1984 as Head Gardener and then in 1994 took the post of Garden Curator which was established for him. He is an RHS judge on the Tender Plants Committee, judging regularly at Chelsea, Hampton Court and London RHS shows and also is a frequent lecturer throughout the English-speaking world. He has published a book, “Tresco Abbey Garden” and has made many appearances on national TV and radio, as well as having written many articles for the horticultural press. Mike has a particular interest in plants from the Mediterranean and associated coastal regions of the world. A Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture and an Associate of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society, Mike regularly leads garden tours. 1pm: Lunch Is not included, food is available to buy in the restaurant. 2pm: Short Talks by Collection Holders. For more information, please click here.