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.
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Issue 72, September 2021
In Memoriam: Joan Benington, Hazel Cave and Morag McGrath (David Toyne, Nigel Brown, Jane Cherrett, Sarah Edgar);
90th Birthday Celebration for Pat Denne (Nigel Brown);
Len Beer Memorial Lecture 2021: Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter (Hilary Miller);
October (verse, Chris Howard);
Memory and Imagination Cycle of the Garden (Sokyo Jung, Korea);
Island Endemics Part 1: Atlantic Islands (John Gorham);
Finding the Nightjar in Gwydir Forest (Sarah Edgar);
Treborth Met Data up to July 2021: a Continuing Saga of Extremes (Pat Denne);
Going Peat-Free in our Gardens (Sarah Edgar);
The Woodland at Treborth (Sarah Edgar);
Is the IUCN Red List Fit for Purpose? (John Gorham)
Issue 71, May 2021
Dr Shaun Russell, retired Director of Treborth Botanic Garden (Sarah Edgar);
Reports from our recent Interns at Treborth (Jacob Parry, Roseanna Hunt, Pete Oswald);
Taming a Monster: the Strangler Fig (Rosie Kressman);
A New Life for Natur Cymru Magazine (Lizzie Wilberforce);
Inscription for the Moss-Hut at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Lake District (verse, William Wordsworth);
The Flora of Llansannan (Shaun Russell);
Dwarf Shrubs: a Baker’s Dozen (John Good);
My Greenhouse (Erle Randall);
Honeybees and the UK’s Changing Landscape over the last 65 Years (Dr Natasha de Vere, NBGW);
The National Seed Bank of Wales, and Treborth’s Contribution to it (Angela Thompson);
Treborth Met data summary for 2020, then on to 2021 (Pat Denne)
Issue 70, January 2021
Life Lessons from the Garden: Coping with COVID (Rosie Kressman);
Inscription from a Moss House in the shrubbery at Weston Park, Shropshire (verse, William Cowper);
Heritage Seeds (Hilary Miller);
Lockdown Finds: Floral Novelties in Foxgloves (Dr Paula J Rudall, Kew Science);
The Flowers of some Broad-Leaved Trees (Angela Thompson);
An Intern's Perspective (Will Usher Smith);
On being Addicted to Potatoes (David Shaw; Agroforestry (Terry Thomas);
Wollemi: Background and the trees at Treborth (Angela Thompson, Pat Denne, Rosie Kressman);
Thirty years of Met Data for Treborth Garden- August to November 2020 (Pat Denne);
2020 in the Carnivorous House (Pam Bower);
New Woodland Footpaths (Adam Cross);
Growing Cacti and Succulents from Seed (John Gorham).