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July 2019
N: Scotland, Rarities and Specialities
PLEASE NOTE change to published schedule. This is now the first of two meetings focusing on rare and special ferns in Scotland. The second meeting will be in Summer 2020. In this meeting we will be visiting sites in the east and eastern-central areas of Scotland. Some of the sites will involve significant hill walking and scrambling, so a good level of fitness will be required. Outline plan - some sites are still to be confirmed. There are two centres…
Find out more »EA: Michael Radley and Danesbury Fernery
Further details will be posted when available
Find out more »NW: Serpentine Woods
Serpentine Woods, Queen's Road, Kendal, LA9 4PH This is a visit to the garden recently rescued from ivy and oblivion by Kendal Conservation Volunteers. George Whitwell, a founding member of the British Pteridological Society lived in the nearby cottage, and clearly used this to display his remarkable collection of varieties. Other delights under consideration. Packed lunch, I suggest, though there are plenty of eating places in Kendal. No need for boots. Leader: Terry Parr
Find out more »WS: The garden of Tim Brock and Cors Caron National Nature Reserve
We last visited Tim and his garden in 2014 when, despite him having not lived there very long, his collection of Asplenium scolopendrium cultivars was already well established. Since then the collection has expanded, not least as a result of his extensive hybridisations, and he has now added a 30` by 10` shade tunnel. Beyond this collection Tim grows a wide range of other ferns and plants. We will meet at his house, Delfryn, Pentre Rhew, Llanddewi Brefi, Tregaron, Ceredigion,…
Find out more »MM: Dryopteris submontana monitoring
Leader Alison Evans. Dryopteris submontana (Rigid Buckler-fern) is almost completely confined to limestone habitats in the Yorkshire Dales and South Cumbria with only a small number of plants elsewhere Meet at 1030 in the car park at SK 156563 on the A515 Buxton Road, south of Newhaven. In the morning we plan to monitor the D. submontana on the Tissington Trail, plus several Aspleniums, some D. affinis and Polystichum aculeatum. In the afternoon it may be possible to visit another…
Find out more »Y: Malham
Meeting Place – The Village car park at SD 900 627 (coins for meter £4-5) or free roadside on village approach. But meet at car park. Going – Slippery if wet KT3 Food – Packed lunch Footwear – Boots Notes – Joint meeting with BBG. The route will follow our earlier visit there with Ken Trewren - via Janet's Foss, Gordale Bridge, (optional detour to Gordale Scar), 'Polypody Valley' to west side of Gordale, Trougate P. lonchitis, back via Malham…
Find out more »August 2019
N: BPS at Wisley 2019
Displays of unusual tender and garden ferns with an interesting range of ferns for sale. Take part in free propagation demonstrations, tours of the Wisley fern plantings and meet our friendly experts for a chat and advice on the planting, care and use of ferns in all parts of the garden. RHS Wisley
Find out more »SE&A: Orlestone Forest
Joint meeting with the Kent Botanical Recording Group Leader: Alfie Gay A meeting to add to our fern records and also give members a chance to see Osmunda regalis (Royal fern) at a site which probably has the best claim out of all the sites in Kent of being a native one. Alfie’s discovery of it at the northern edge of Longrope Wood in 2017 was of particular interest as there is a 1950's Francis Rose record from Orlestone. We’ll…
Find out more »Y: Castlebeck Wood, NYMNP
Meeting Place – On the roadside verge on a slight bend at SE 95083 97980 (SatNav 54.36876 -0.53825) Going – Moderate (KT3) Food – Packed lunch Footwear – Boots Notes – This is a re-visit of a site we went with Jack Bouckley and Richard Unett in 1988 (see Bulletin Vol3 No6 p187) and 2001 with Ken Trewren (see Bulletin Vol6 No1 p34) . Hopefully we can find all the nice ferns without his guidance. It is a Woodland Trust…
Find out more »N: Southport Flower Show 2019
Once again, BPS will have a stand here promoting the Society, demonstrating spore propagation and answering questions from visitors. There will also be a number of fern display categories in which you could win prizes for your ferns. Please contact Michael if you would like to help or need advice on entering ferns in the competitive classes
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