{"id":10,"date":"2010-02-22T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solene.moutardier.freehostia.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:41:42","slug":"lassociation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/lassociation\/","title":{"rendered":"About the association"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AFABEGO, the French Begonia Society (Association Fran\u00e7aise des Amateurs de B\u00e9gonias), is a national non-profit association founded in 1988 under the French law of July 1901.
\nIt currently has around 100 members throughout France and even abroad.<\/p>\n

Its main purpose is to promote interest in begonias, and in collectors\u2019 begonias in particular. It also aims to share with all its members any information on the nature, identification and so on of begonias, as well as news of shows, exhibitions and publications about them. Through its relationship with the Begonia Conservatory of the town of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), the association works to keep the local authority engaged with the collection, and takes an active part in promoting it.<\/p>\n

Finally, it encourages friendly meetings and exchanges between members, thanks to its regional representatives and to the annual General Meeting \u2013 an unmissable gathering where ideas, and plants, are exchanged.<\/p>\n

This General Meeting<\/a>,<\/span> usually held over a weekend in late September or early October, takes place in a different town each year and includes a visit to greenhouses or botanical gardens. For the association\u2019s 30th anniversary, for example, the meeting was held at the Begonia Conservatory in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime). Past meetings have included, among others, the Parc de la T\u00eate d\u2019Or in Lyon (2010 and 2015), the municipal greenhouses of Le Havre (2011 and 2019) and the Nantes botanical garden (2017).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Board and committee<\/h4>\n

THE BOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • President:<\/strong> Jean-Louis BEREAU<\/li>\n
  • Vice-presidents:<\/strong> Pierre FORTUNE & Nicolas Picart<\/li>\n
  • Secretary: <\/strong>Evelyne BOUQUET<\/li>\n
  • Treasurer:<\/strong> Dominique PERMINGEAT<\/li>\n
  • Auditor:<\/strong> Agn\u00e8s CAZAUX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Chantal BEREAU<\/li>\n
    • Caroline CAMPODARVE-PUENTE<\/li>\n
    • Agn\u00e8s CAZAUX<\/li>\n
    • Christian CONNAULTE<\/li>\n
    • Christ\u00e8le MORIN<\/li>\n
    • Pierre FORTUNE<\/li>\n
    • Daniel ZALKO<\/li>\n
    • Aurore CONDAMINET<\/li>\n
    • Nathan ORLOF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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      • Dominique PERMINGEAT<\/li>\n
      • Herv\u00e9 POUHAER<\/li>\n
      • Jean-Christophe REUTER<\/li>\n
      • Patrick ROSE<\/li>\n
      • Jean-Luc TRIPHON<\/li>\n
      • Nicolas PICART<\/li>\n
      • Kenzo ALACID<\/li>\n
      • Christophe DUMINIL<\/li>\n
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        History<\/h4>\n

        AFABEGO was founded in May 1988<\/strong>. The association made itself known through its first newsletter, \u201cle petit B\u00e9gofil, un lien entre les amateurs de b\u00e9gonias\u201d (\u201cthe little B\u00e9gofil, a link between begonia lovers\u201d), which came out in August 1988, photocopied in black and white.<\/p>\n

        In 1991<\/strong>, a colour insert was added to the newsletter, describing four plants with growing advice.<\/p>\n

        From 1992<\/strong>, every General Meeting has included a competition for the finest begonia, which is still very popular today.<\/p>\n

        Two difficult years in 1996<\/strong> and 1997<\/strong> with falling membership. The newsletter shrank to a single sheet, the \u201cMinibeg\u201d.<\/p>\n

        From 1997<\/strong>, following a change of president, membership picked up again, reaching as many as 200 members<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

        The seed service was set up in 1998<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

        At the end of 2001<\/strong>, the newsletter was renamed \u201cLe B\u00e9gofil\u201d (dropping \u201cpetit\u201d) and gained more pages.
        \nThe association also publishes a leaflet (updated in 2008) to promote itself at the horticultural shows attended by some of its members. Its activity focuses mainly on producing, writing and distributing \u201cLe B\u00e9gofil\u201d, which has been printed entirely in colour since 2006<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

        In 2007<\/strong>, following the dissolution of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Fran\u00e7aise du B\u00e9gonia \u2013 which, together with the town of Rochefort, managed the Begonia Conservatory directed by Patrick Rose \u2013 AFABEGO took on a moral responsibility for the Conservatory\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFABEGO, l\u2019Association Fran\u00e7aise des Amateurs de B\u00e9gonias, est une association nationale, r\u00e9gie par la loi de juillet 1901, et cr\u00e9\u00e9e en 1988. Elle compte \u00e0 ce jour environ 100 adh\u00e9rentes et adh\u00e9rents, r\u00e9partis sur toute la France et m\u00eame \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger. Sa raison d\u2019\u00eatre principale est de promouvoir l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les b\u00e9gonias et les b\u00e9gonias [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":124,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12875,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/12875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}