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March 2019
MM: Gallery Oldham
Museum visit at Gallery Oldham to look at herbarium specimens of ferns and lycophytes – I recall they have some interesting material for New Zealand as well as the UK. Leader Mike Canaway. Please advise me if you are aiming to attend as the museum needs to have numbers beforehand on mikecanaway@gmail.com For directions, parking and public transport see https://galleryoldham.org.uk/ there is a tram service from Manchester railway stations which stops nearby and there is also parking in Sainsburys next…
Find out more »May 2019
EA: Swines Meadow Farm Nursery
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Find out more »MM: Broadbottom Fernery
A work day at Broadbottom fernery. Leader Alison Evans acl.evans@btinternet.com. Meeting place – Lymefield Garden Centre and Tea Rooms, Broadbottom, SK14 6AG, NGR SJ996935. Please park in the overflow car park to the left rear of the tea rooms. Lunch – Alison will reserve a table for 12.30 for lunch. Please let her know if you will be attending, and if you want to have lunch in the cafe - if we are more than 10, we need to let…
Find out more »June 2019
EA&SE: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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Find out more »MM: Deepdale ferns and flora (Provisional)
Deepdale near Bakewell. Leader Henry Folkard. Arrangements for this meeting may change so please contact the leader Henry Folkard for further details nearer the time on henry.folkard@bmcvolunteers.org.uk Deep Dale is a Plantlife Reserve and is good for cowslips and calcarious grassland species particularly in its upper reaches. The ferny bit is towards the bottom end. A fairly easy, wide path runs its full length with parking possible at both ends. There are some slightly uneven bits on it and if…
Find out more »WS: Taff Fechan and Morlais Castle
Last June, on behalf of the BPS, we led a “ferny walk” for a journalist and photographer from Country Walking Magazine and we expect the resultant article to be published in 2019. To show them plenty of woodland ferns we started along the Taff Fechan (little Taff) a tributary to the main river which we visited as a local group back in 2011. To this we added a climb to the nearby Morlais Castle which we knew would add an…
Find out more »EA: Catfield Fen and Gill & Bryan Smith’s garden
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Find out more »July 2019
MM: Native ferns and horsetails at Greenfield
A revision or training day on native ferns and horsetails jointly with local naturalists including a couple of Dryopteris affinis taxa to keep members talking! Leader Mike Canaway. Meet at the entrance to Friezland Riding Arena and park to one side (if there is no equestrian event taking place, we can use the larger car park lower down – to be advised on the day). For map and directions see https://www.odrc.co.uk/friezland-arena/ and scroll down to the map. Coming from the…
Find out more »EA: Michael Radley and Danesbury Fernery
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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,…
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