Webinars & Lectures
Webinars and Winter Lectures are here for Members to catch up.
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1. The Second Golden Age of Woody Plants presented by Maurice Foster VMH
2. Why Trees? by Dr John Grimshaw
3. Maples in the Wild by Philippe de Spoelberch.
4. Magnolia Introductions from UK & Europe by Jim Gardiner
5. Insights from arboreal investigation of the tallest conifers by Professor Stephen C. Sillett
6. Exceptional recent wood plant collections from Asia by Dan Hinkley
7. Discovering arboreal treasures in British & Irish gardens by John Anderson
Joshua Coceano and Aidan Murphy: Travels in Montenegro with the IDS
Adrian Bloom: 'How trees grew on me' - Foggy Bottom, 60 years on, managing a collection over time.
IDS Winter Lecture: Naoko Abe 'Cherry’ Ingram – The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms
Dr Murphy Westwood: The Role of Arboreta in Conserving Threatened Trees
phill Parsons: Conserving Southern Hemisphere Plants in a Warming Climate
David Rankin - Rhododendrons Really Can Be Grown On Limestone Soils
Lucy Bidgood: Bhutan and Andy Jackson: Arunachal Pradesh
Philippe de Spoelberch - Fagus in the Wild and Collections
Professor Jo Bradwell - Norbury Park, an Estate tackling Climate Change
IDS Webinar - Sven Bronckaers - The IDS on tour in Japan
Colin Jones: NW Yunnan: The kingdom of flowers. 19 February 2025.
IDS Winter Lecture 2025. Tim Boland. Conserving North America's Rare Trees
Philippe de Spoelberch. Betula around the world and arboreta. 8 January 2025.
Dr John Grimshaw - Small Gdn Trees - 23 January 2025
Dr Julian Sutton & Jack Aldridge - Tackling Hydrangea. 11 December 2024
Koen Camelbeke - 'Dendrological riches in the Far East of Russia' 27 November 2024
Charles Shi & Richard Moore. Plant hunting in Vietnam. 13 November 2024
Simon Toomer. "Between forest and garden; the role of arboretums and tree collections in shaping future treescapes"
IDS Winter Lecture 2024 - Dr John Grimshaw. "Give me chastity - but not yet"
Philippe de Spoelberch. Kyrgyzstan. 13 March 24
Recorded before a live audience at the Royal Society of Chemistry,.
Abraham Rammeloo - Trees and shrubs with winter interest at Arboretum Kalmthout. 31 Jan 2024
William A McNamara. Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown ... the search for Acer Pentaphyllum 17 Jan 2024
Philippe de Spoelberch. IDS in Kazakhstan 13 December 2023
Jim Gardiner. "Garden Shrubs - Always the Bridesmaid, never the Bride?" 29 Novenmber 2023
Dr John Grimshaw. The Garden at Ray Wood. 15 November 2023
Maurice Foster "The Second Golden Age Revisited" 1 November 2023.
Dr Hossein Akhani - "Woody Flora of Golestan" 18 October 2023
Prof Nicola Spence The UK, Chief Plant Health Officer on "Responding to an increased threat: protecting plant biosecurity" October 2023
Philippe de Spoelberch: "My life with trees and people who love trees". Winter Lecture 2023
Trees of the Sikkim Himalaya - Seamus O'Brien
Trees for the Future, Tony Kirkham
Mountain Flora of Sichuan. Philippe de Spoelberch
Winter Lecture 2022: Arabella Lennox-Boyd
Oaks of the world, from California to Hokkaido - Philippe de Spoelberch
Winter Lecture 2020 (audio).
An audio recording of the highly praised Lecture from Ned Friedman, Tree Obsessions: Celebrating the ephemeral in long-lived plants, presented to members in February 2020, is available on the following link: Winter Lecture 2020 audio recording
Tree conversations: Quercus x turneri
