Magic of Plants 2025

The West Yorkshire Group invites you to The Magic of Plants Day Conference

Directions to M0P 25

Saturday 5 April 2025, 9.45am – 4.30pm.  Doors open from 9am.

Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Lower Hall Theatre, Otley LS21 2BA

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Four fantastic speakers in the beautiful Dales town of Otley

Charlotte Harris  From RHS Chelsea to the City of Steel: Creating an award-winning adaptive garden for Horatio’s Garden– Chelsea’s Best Show Garden 2023 –an immersive, restorative haven, designed for people with mobility needs at its heart, the garden is now being installed at the Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.

Saul Walker  Woodland Gardening: The art of Growing in Shade

Twigs Way  A History of Women in the Garden – ever wondered about female gardeners before Miss Jekyll and Miss Willmott? Twigs is a garden historian fascinated by the past and intrigued by the role of flowers, gardens and landscape in art and culture of all kinds.

Jack Willgoss  Gardening for the Future – a look at how Wildegoose Nursery has explored new methods of gardening and plants grown, so we can continue gardening in a changing climate

Plant sales from these great nurseries:

Cliff Bank Nursery, Morton Nursery, Ridgeway Nursery, Wildegoose Nursery, Woodlands Nursery, WYHPS Group Plant Sales – see below

There will be free cakes and refreshments for delegates throughout the day, but delegates are asked to bring their own picnic lunch as there is no provision for food sales at the school.

Ample free parking on site.

Tickets:

  • WYHPS members only – £35 available at WYHPS meetings.  Cash, cheques, bank transfer or credit card. On sale from our 11th October meeting
  • All other delegates – £45.  On sale from 21st Oct. There are 2 ways to do it:
    • Complete this form and follow instructions given on the site to make payments by bank transfer  OR
  • ALL tickets are digital and will be emailed to you on receipt of payment for you to print out

Enquiries: magicofplants@icloud.com

Tickets must be booked in advance and will be unavailable on the door

There are several hotels and B&Bs within a 6 mile radius of Otley, findable on Google.  Explore the area – Breezy Knees Gardens, Cliff Bank Nursery, Dove Cottage Nursery, Harewood House, RHS Harlow Carr, Stillingfleet Lodge … and many more!

More about the Nurseries:

Cliff Bank Nursery

Recently opened by Ben Preston, formerly a gardener at York Gate

Morton Nursery

“Our nursery specialises in quality, home grown plants and the more unusual and hard to find shrubs and perennials”

Ridgefield Nursery

Jo Pickering’s Knaresborough nursery

Wildegoose Nursery

Wildegoose Nursery is run by Jack and Laura Willgoss – a small independent nursery and garden housed within the old redbrick walls of a former kitchen garden, nestled in the beautiful Shropshire Hills

Woodlands Nursery

“Woodlands Nursery is, like many of its plants, unusual. All the stock is propagated by cuttings or division directly from the garden, or seed from a variety of sources.”

WYHPS Group

Plants grown and offered for sale by members of WYHPS

Enquiries: magicofplants@icloud.com