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 80, May 2024
Gerry Downing Gerry Downing

Issue 80, May 2024

Chelsea Flower Show Garden at Treborth (BU info)

Tenerife field course, Part 2: The Great Search for Andisols (Alex Burnett)

Cultivating Hope in Sarajevo (Richard Storey)

Winter-growing Bulbs from Southern Africa (Erle Randall)

Thunia alba: orchid of the season (Simon Retallick)

Summer Bike Tour, East to West (Jon Keymer)

Met Data January to March 2024(Pat Denne)

The Engrailed, an early spring Moth (Charles Aron)

A Liverwort Herbicide? (John Gorham)

Margery Fish: Author and Doyenne of Cottage Gardening (Hilary Miller)

More than Half of Life on Earth is found in Soil (the Conversation online)

Island Endemics, Part 5: Sundaland, South-East Asia (John Gorham)

A Horticulturist in the Making (Stewart Turtill)

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Issue 79, January 2024
Laura Haggett Laura Haggett

Issue 79, January 2024

Why Bother: the value of Conservation (Rosie Kressman)

Friends’ new Website (Teri Shaw)

Gardening in the Sea (Bob Pethers)

Treborth Met Records/Climate Change (Pat Denne)

Biochar Production on Anglesey (Paul Richardson)

Resuscitation of the South African Border (Erle Randall)

A Student’s Alcohol-Free Guide to Tenerife (Alex Burnett)

Orchid: Laelia anceps (Simon Retallick)

Nepenthes in Sumatra Part 2 (Richard Storey)

Large Yellow Underwing Moth (Val Lane)

Tree Seminar: WHGT (Hilary Miller)

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