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 75, September 2022
Laura Haggett Laura Haggett

Issue 75, September 2022

The Friends need Vegetable Growers for the Plant Sales (Angela Thompson)
My experience as a Student Intern at Treborth (Alex Burnett)
Success for the Friends’ Aaron Marubbi, Winner of a BBC Gardeners’ World Prize (Aaron Marubbi)
Questions, Questions, Questions: Membership Questionnaire (Cath Dixon)
Botanists are Disappearing – just when the World Needs them Most (the Conversation online)
Dawn Chorus (Nigel Brown)
Island Endemics Part 3: Madagascar (John Gorham)
A Marvellous Mollusc in Wales: The Freshwater Pearl Mussel and Me (Katie Fincken-Roberts)
Treborth Met Records, January to July 2022: Droughts and a Heatwave (Pat Denne)
Farewell to Judith and Ann (Sarah Edgar)

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Issue 74, May 2022
Laura Haggett Laura Haggett

Issue 74, May 2022

(No such thing as) A Typical Week at Treborth Botanic Garden (Rosie Kressman);
Zantedeschia odorata (P. Perry), a Species of Calla Lily (Erle Randall);
Plant Recording at Treborth Botanic Garden (Paul Smith);
Hybrid Succulents (John Gorham);
Being a Volunteer Gardener at Treborth - Good for the Body and the Soul (Sue Hofsteede);
Work Placement at Treborth (Pete Oswald);
Bangor’s Hidden ‘Green’ Gem: Valuing the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Treborth Botanic Garden (Bangor Uni online news);
Ecological Experience: Life at the Rockface (Richard Birch);
The Ponds at Treborth (Andrew Dixon);
In Memoriam: Alfred Williamson (Nigel Brown);
Do the Treborth Botanic Garden Meteorological Data (1991-2021) show changes in Climatic Extremes? (Pat Denne)

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Issue 73, January 2022
Laura Haggett Laura Haggett

Issue 73, January 2022

Friends’ Membership Questionnaire (Cath Dixon);
Behind the Scenes: Preparing for a Plant Sale (Judith Hughes);
Conservation Propagation: A Legacy Project (Rosie Kressman);
Mosses and Moths, Ferns and Fungi: a Walk in the Woods of Meirionnydd (NigelBrown);
Christchurch (New Zealand) Botanic Gardens: Surviving the Earthquake (Andrew Dixon);
A Walk Round Christchurch Botanic Gardens (Cath Dixon);
The Treborth Intern and Placement Experience (ed Angela Thompson);
Lammas Growth (John Whitehead);
Wild Flowers in Britain: Some Observations (Peter Marren);
Teasels: A Teasing Plant (Angela Thompson);
A Wartime Story: Margaret Beal (Sarah Edgar);
Meadow Plots at Treborth Botanic Garden (Sarah Edgar);
Protecting Our Precious Trees (Hilary Miller);
Island Endemics Part 2: The Smaller Islands of the Western Indian Ocean (John Gorham);
Treborth Met records: August to November 2021 (Pat Denne)

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