Our usual first Spring event takes place as a meeting with talks, a plant display, and plant nurseries selling a variety of plants.

We are delighted to have John Grimshaw coming to talk with us. Many of you will know that John was the Director and Curator of the Yorkshire Arboretum from 2012 until autumn 2024.  However he has recently moved and been appointed Editor-in Chief of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This magazine has appeared continuously since 1787 and is the longest-running illustrated botanical journal. It combines botanical information and horticultural advice with fine botanical art. John is also working on Trees and Shrubs Online the digital encyclopaedia of woody plants, for the International Dendrology Society.

This event will take place as usual in the Victoria Halls, Stirling Road, Dunblane. The venue is immediately opposite the railway station, and car parking is available in local carparks, or on the dual carriageway just up the hill from the halls.  

9-10am   Open for exhibitors' staging of plants.

11am      "Talk (subject to be decided)" with John Grimshaw. 

2.00pm   "Talk (subject to be decided)" with John Grimshaw.

There is no Discussion Weekend planned in 2025, and our usual Scottish Autumn Show will take place in this venue for the second year.

We are planning much more than a Show, with talks, demonstrations, nurseries,

and an invitation to local gardening clubs to participate and learn about alpines and rock gardens.

This is a brief summary only.  Full details will be posted in due course here on our 2025 Scottish Autumn Show page.

Sat 8 November 2025 (10am-4pm GMT)
SRGC Autumn Festival and AGM
Burnside Hall (Old Scone Church Hall), Scone, PH2 6LP