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 78, September 2023
Botanic Gardens Conservation International accreditation (BU bulletin)
Garden Escapers (Lisa Toth)
In Memoriam: Dorothy Lloyd Lewis (Nigel Brown)
Friends’ four-day coach tour of some East Midlands Gardens, July 2023 (Angela Thompson)
Orchid of the Season Liparis stricklandiana orchid (Simon Retallick)
The Nitrogen Conundrum: Introducing Perennial Mobile Green Manures (Chloe Ward)
Treborth Rock Garden: Fit for the Future (Richard Birch)
Nepenthes: Plant Hunting in Sumatra, Part 1 (Richard Storey)
Moth Trapping at Treborth (the large elephant hawk moth) (Angela Thompson, Richard Birch)
Treborth Met Records for 2023 from January to July (Pat Denne)
Issue 77, May 2023
Cotoneaster cambricus (Rosie Kressman)
Bodnant Garden visit, Feb ‘23 (Angela Thompson)
Early moths: oak beauty (Val Lane)
Plas Newydd Assistant Gardener (Claire Parker)
Review of Plant Atlas 2020 (NIgel Brown)
Orchid House: 21 years of volunteering (Simon Retallick)
Botanical Models (Kioko Terauchi)
Living Landscapes: Rivers Alyn and Chwiler catchments (Sarah Ellis)
Island Endemics Pt 4: Eastern Indian Ocean (John Gorham)
Met Records: December 2022 to March 2023 (Pat Denne)
Issue 76, January 2023
In Memoriam: Ann Illsley (Sarah Edgar, Rosie Kressman)
Florida Everglades (Sarah Edgar)
Treborth Trails (Angela Thompson)
Goronwy Wynne (David Hill)
Treborth Fungus Foray (Charles Aron)
The Uncertain Moth (Pat Denne)
Cors Goch Visit (Nigel Brown)
In Memoriam: John Savage (Nigel Brown)
In Memoriam: Grace Gibson (Sarah Edgar, Nigel Brown)
A Lithops Table (John Gorham)
Ecosystem Invaders (and more) (Tomos Jones)
Treborth Met Records 2022 (Pat Denne)