Newsletter
A small team of volunteers have been producing newsletters three times a year since 1997. Each newsletter includes a report from the Curator, a range of articles that have wide appeal to gardeners, horticulturalists, botanists, and those with an interest in the natural environment and local history.
A list of our newsletters, with a summary of the articles in each one, and a link to the newsletter, can be found below.
The latest issue is not listed, as it is available only to members of the Friends for the first four months after publication. Newsletters are issued at the end of the following months: January, May and September.
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Issue 69, September 2020
Gardening in Lockdown (Sarah Edgar);
Woodland Management and Glasdir (Gerry Downing);
Lockdown Experiences (Angela Thompson, Pat Denne, Val Lane);
Membership Matters (Teri Shaw);
Thirty years of Met Data for Treborth Garden (Pat Denne);
In Memoriam: Stephen Bristow (Sarah Edgar);
Coronavirus: Wastewater can tell us where the next Outbreak will be (Davey Jones, BU, the Conversation online);
UCNW Bangor Expedition to British Guiana 1963: Malcolm Cherrett (Jane Cherrett);
Life in Lockdown, the view from the Garden (Nigel Brown);
Le Jardin Botanique de Nice (Chris Howard);
Peat Free Potting (Rosie Kressman);
Plant Blindness and Wildlife Conservation (Angela Thompson);
Phenology (Shaun Russell) ;
Living at Treborth under Lockdown (Adam Cross)
Issue 68, May 2020
Normal Service will be Resumed as Soon as Possible (Angela Thompson);
In Memoriam: Dr. George Argent (Sarah Edgar);
From Home to Hampton Court (Stewart Turtill);
Book Review: ‘Wilding’ by Isabella Tree (Angela Thompson);
Natural History: To be, or Not to Be, a Subject Option at GCSE (Nigel Brown);
Why Plants don’t die from Cancer (the Conversation online; Plastic Pots: Better the Devil you know (Rosie Kressman);
Out in the Garden (verse, Katherine Mansfield);
The Two Dragons Chinese Garden Project (Berta Rosen);
Surveying on North and South Uist (Jen Towill)
Issue 67, January 2020
If the Earth were only a Few Feet in Diameter (Rosie Kressman);
Thoughts on the Bubble House (aka Carnivorous House) (Pam and Rob Bower);
Moving Up in the World (Val Lane);
Ash Die-back (Hilary Miller);
Strange Beasts found in a Garden: Musings on Invasive Species (Dave Thorpe);
The Dead Stick Plant (John Gorham);
Fungus Foray (Charles Aron) ;
Helen Hughes (Nigel Brown);
Healing Garden (Fatima Ammar);
Newborough Warren (Mike Dilger);
Oil Palm: Too Much of a Good Thing (Nigel Brown);
STAG: Student Treborth Action Group (Katie Bolton);
University College Bangor Nepal Expeditions: Digitising Len Beer’s slides (John Gorham)