It arranges field trips and meetings, publishes the Wild Flower Magazine, offers prizes and has a children's section.
Among its members were Noel Sandwith, curator at Kew Gardens, who first discovered Scorzonera humilis, or viper's grass, growing in Britain, botanist Eleanor Vachell who discovered Limosella aquatica x subulata in Glamorgan, and Gertrude Foggitt who recorded Carex microglochin on Ben Lawers, along with the botanist Lady Joanna Charlotte Davy.
Edith Dent (1863-1948) edited the magazine, bi-monthly at that time, which she started in 1896.
After her death in 1948, her daughter Hilda Sophia Annesley Dent (1903-1956) became president and editor.
[3] Her daughter Pamela Schwerdt was head gardener at Sissinghurst and was said to have inherited her interest in flowers through her mother.