Monthly Archives: March 2011

We are lucky enough to have Veronika with us at the moment, who is funded by Vodafone, and she is helping out with the Threatened Plants Project. Yesterday, she and Sarah, our Threatened Plants Project Coordinator, braved the chilly wind … Continue reading →

Forestry Commission – News – phytophthora ramorum found in european larch for first time. Not good news, but as they say, hardly unexpected.  

Good article from Mike Byford in Derbsyhire Life

On the Landscape Juice website here

A very comprehensive update on Phytophthora ramorum can be found here.

Anyone interested in news from the RHS libraries (more fun than it sounds, trust me), have a look at the newsletter. Good talk from John Anderson of Exbury at the Sussex Group Spring Lecture on Saturday, and fantastic selection of … Continue reading →

Clearly I am slightly biased but there are some important women here, including our late Vice President Joyce Stewart. Any more interesting links? Let me know.

From the also very useful PlantNetwork website- this page has so many useful links on it, I don’t know where to click first. Or have a Faucaria instead, one of the few things that survived the winter in my home … Continue reading →

I was invited to attend the Business Meeting of the AGT last Thursday, which was most interesting. It was very telling how similar many of the discussions were to our Council meetings! They were justifiably pleased with the production of … Continue reading →