Surrey Group indoor meetings are held on the second Thursday of February, March, April, September, October and November in St Andrew's Church Hall, Churchgate House, Downside Bridge Road, Cobham, KT11 3EJ.  Doors open at 7.00pm and the talk starts at 7.30pm.

We have talks by knowledgeable speakers on all aspects of plants and horticulture, a plant sale, raffle, refreshments and a Flower of the Meeting competition. Visitors are welcome and asked to donate £5 at the door. Visits to National Collections and notable gardens are organised throughout the year.

Please contact email Surrey Group for details.

In 2020, as part of our endeavours to conserve the diversity of garden plants, the Surrey Group decided to begin a project to start some dispersed collections.  Dispersed collections are not held by any one person on any particular site and the plants are dispersed among members of the group.  Dispersed collections have the horticultural advantage of being free of those problems normally associated with monocultures in terms of their susceptibility to pests and diseases.  From the point of view of a collection holder they are additionally free of that particular fear of losing plants, since identical 'backup' plants are held by other group members.

Two new collections were proposed an Ajuga collection and a collection of the Tigh-na-Garth strain of 'Ben' Helianthemum bred by John Nicoll and commonly available in the 1920's and 1930's.

Our Ajuga collection achieved National Plant Collection status in June 2025.

Participation in this project is open to all Surrey Group Members so if you would like to have a part, of what will hopefully become, a Plant Heritage National Collection of plants growing in your own back garden then do get in touch with the Dispersed Collections Project.

If you would like to see how we are doing our lists of plants acquired and those we are still looking for are below : -