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General Meetings and Friends of Winterbourne Gdns, meetings below
Venue
Visitors are always welcome. Specimens may be brought to the meetings for identification.
Mycological Section Meetings see
Current Foray Programme
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| 19 October | Andrew Humphris, The ultimate plants: making the most of your garden Annual Joint Lecture with Friends of Winterbourne Garden. Starts 7.30 pm. in Winterbourne House Andrew Humphris is Head Gardener at Wollerton Old Hall, near Market Drayton. The formal garden, created over the past 20 years on a centuries-old site, comprises a number of individual garden rooms each with its own dazzling display of perennials. The garden has significant collections of often rare roses, clematis, salvias and euonymus. The garden has recently appeared on Gardener's World, Central Television, Granada, HTV and Japanese national television. The Royal Horticultural Society has selected Wollerton as a 'partner garden' and the Good Garden Guide has allocated Wollerton its 2-star (highest) category. |
| 20 November | Ian Trueman, Flora of Birmingham and the Black Country As this major project enters its final stages, Professor Trueman will discuss some of the interesting and often unexpected finds and findings, with some unusual plants and patterns having been identified from the surveys |
| 23 November | Val Bourne, The winter garden Friends of Winterbourne Garden Annual Lecture, 7.30 pm, Vaughan Jeffreys Building, University of Birmingham. Members of BNHS are welcome. Please note: this lecture is on a MONDAY The talk will be based on the 2006 book of the same title by gardening author Val Bourne, who writes for The Daily Telegraph, The English Garden, Homes and Gardens, Saga Magazine and The Oxford Times, and whose other books include The natural gardener and Seeds of wisdom |
| 18 December | Tom Cavanagh, The Honduran rain forest Tom one of our members who works at Warwickshire College at the Moreton Morrell campus as a lecturer in Countryside Management, visited Honduras a few years ago and undertook survey work in the rain forest there |
2010 |
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| 15 January | Sara Carvalho, Nature in Namibia Sara is Manager at EcoRecord, the ecological database for Birmingham and the Black Country. A few years ago she spent some weeks in Namibia |
| 19 February | To be arranged |
| 19 March | To be arranged |
| 16 April | AGM and Presidential lecture |
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