Joining the IPPS puts you among the best informed people on
plant propagation, plant production and plant marketing.
Some of the more obvious benefits of IPPS membership are detailed below; others are less tangible but equally important – initial links forged between members which grow into friendships lasting lifetimes.
The International Plant Propagators Society was founded in 1951 and is now organised into eight Regions world wide.
Each Region is run by its own local committee chaired by its own President, Bernard Brennan is the President of the GB&I region for 2009. Each IPPS region manages its own finances
The IPPS Region of Great Britain and Ireland, includes members not only from the UK and the Republic of Ireland but from most other member states of the European Union as well as many countries in Eastern Europe. In fact more than 20% of the 450-strong membership is based in ‘continental’ Europe.
The Region organises a series of area meetings on an annual basis where leading nurseries, research locations, outstanding gardens and centers of horticultural excellence are visited and ideas and expertise are openly shared. Workshops are offered to help transfer and share current best practice within the plant production industry.
Annual Conference brings together leading experts from the industry who share their well researched and accumulated wisdom with members. This technical expertise and knowledge is shared with the industry at large through the IPPS Proceedings.