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Newsletter Cylchlythyr THE FRIENDS OF TREBORTH BOTANIC GARDEN CYFEILLION GARDD FOTANEG TREBORTH NEWSLETTER CYLCHLYTHYR Number / Rhif 46 January/ Ionawr 2013 2 COMMITTEE Judith Hughes ([email protected]) Chairman Dr David Shaw ([email protected]) Vice-Chair Sarah Edgar ([email protected]) Secretary Liz Lemin Treasurer Nigel Brown ([email protected]) Curator Rosie Barratt ([email protected]) Horticulturist Angela Thompson ([email protected]) Membership Secretary Dr John Gorham ([email protected]) Events Secretary Enid Griffiths Committee Member Deborah Wieland ([email protected]) Committee Member Tom Cockbill ([email protected]) Committee Member David Evans ([email protected]) Committee Member Jamie Stroud ([email protected]) Committee Member Ann Illsley ([email protected]) Committee Member Berta Rosen ([email protected]) Committee Member Natalie Chivers ([email protected]) STAG Representative Matt Kent ([email protected]) STAG Representative NEWSLETTER TEAM Pete Wieland (formatting, photos) [email protected] Grace Gibson (adverts, articles) [email protected] Angela Thompson (commissioning articles, [email protected] planning, editing) Cover Photos Front: Sarracenia purpurea flower (Mark Long) Back: The Chainsaw Gang, left to right Jamie Stroud, Gerry Downing, Rosie Barratt, Adam Cross ( Phil Dunford of Phil Dunford Chainsaw Training) Unless otherwise stated, all photographs are copyright of the article author Issue No. 46 Jan 2013 CONTENTS AGM Report 3 News in Brief 4 Curator’s Report 6 Weather and Wildlife 8 Carnivores in Cumbria – The Removal and Rescue of Sarracenia purpurea 12 The Lady’s Slipper Orchid 17 Membership Renewals 19 The Slovenian Karst 20 Eithinog - the North Wales Wildlife Trust’s Newest Reserve 22 Visit to Bangor by Dr Natasha de Vere 26 The Collections Committee – what is it? 28 Treborth Botanic Garden’s Wales Coast Path 30 Student Plant Conservation Project 32 RBG Kew Student Visit to North Wales 34 In Memoriam – Tony (AJE) Smith 35 Chainsaws are Us! 36 2 AGM Report October 2012 by the Chairman We continue to have Nigel’s vast biological knowledge which he applies for the benefit of the Friends, the students and many other organisations. He has led three walks for the Friends this year: the first, which was blessed with sunshine, to Newborough in November, the second to the Foryd in February, which was not, and the third to the Great Orme in May, once again in good weather. Four of us attended a PlantNet conference at Ness Gardens in February, at which we learned of the opportunities and challenges facing the eleven or so university-owned gardens. Natalie, one of our student representatives, was asked how much she was paid for her post! A very successful social evening was held at the Tafarn y Bont in March, and we also held a coffee morning and silent auction to raise funds for Wild Science day. This was again a very successful public event, also in March. We interviewed four people for the post of horticulturist. There were about 30 applicants, which was a lot of work for Sarah, but in the end we chose Rosie Barratt, who has now been with us for six months. Those six months were paid for by the Friends, a significant amount of money, but worth every penny as Rosie is a great asset. She is being employed by the university for another six months, and we hope for much longer as we feel she is essential for the future of Treborth. We started our lunchtime lectures last autumn. They are designed to be a ‘thank you’ for volunteers, students and graduates. They are free and they also bring other Schools in the university to Treborth. I’m slowly working my way round the university to find speakers and we do have many in-house lectures. So far they have been very popular. We are branching out into marquee hire for members, as you will know if you’ve read your newsletter. We organised a Latin Taxonomy workshop and had 30+ students – we hope to repeat this in the future. Various members and volunteers have overseen projects paid for by outside funding, most notably our lovely wooden signs. 3 Our plant collections group, now well-established, really has made a difference to how we think about, plan and plant the Garden. We had two very successful plant sales in the spring: April’s raised just under £2000, and May’s just over. The October one raised about £1300. These have become mini-Open Days over the years and always have a good atmosphere. Our graduates are an ever-increasing group in number and importance to us. They really do go the extra mile to support the Friends and the students, and we in turn support them as much as we can. Likewise, our students: they work very hard for Treborth and become involved in our lives and we in theirs. Their work parties form an integral part of Treborth’s life every year. Again, we counted up the volunteer hours over the last year. This time we really made an effort to record every hour worked for Treborth. With time worked at home taken into account, it came to a staggering 10,000 hours, as again you will know if you read your newsletter. I would appeal to you to keep a note of any hours you work for Treborth at home, and remember to sign the register (in and out please) when you are there. Let me know your home hours after Christmas. The newsletter goes from strength to strength and is the result of a lot of work by a small team of people. Treborth wouldn’t function without its tea and biscuits at all events and special thanks must go to our tea team for keeping us refreshed. It is six years now since we were under threat, and Sarah and I pledged to stay until we had a secure future for Treborth. We’re on the way but not there yet, so I hope you’ll be able to put up with us a while longer. Here I must say a big ‘thank you’ to Sarah for being the best secretary and financial planner ever. Judith Hughes And… News in Brief Treborth was featured on Radio Cymru in November when Jamie Owen from BBC Wales came to Treborth to interview people in September about the section of 4 Gwynedd’s Coast Path that runs through the Garden. Nigel Brown spoke about the cascade that falls to the Strait near the path (one of the Paxton features in the Garden), and Gerry Downing about the dogged clearance of invasive alien plants especially laurel either side of the path. Tom Cockbill explained about the development of the Forest School – an outdoor environmental classroom – for children that utilises the surrounding woodland as an educational resource. At the time, an excited group of children were searching for minibeasts. Presently two schools in the area are involved in this scheme and Tom hopes to spread the word further. Donations: Many thanks to Margaret Thompson and Joan Bennington for their donations to the Garden’s funds. We are also very grateful for all the cakes that were provided for the autumn fair and plant sale. We were able to sell slices of cake with the refreshments, as well as selling whole cakes on the produce stall; this has proved to be a popular addition to our plants sale events, and a very useful boost to our funds. The Students for Treborth Action Group participated in a community tree- planting day for the Maes y Pant Action Group in Gresford, Wrexham on Wednesday 21 November. The planting was televised on BBC1’s The ONE Show that evening. STAG rep Natalie Chivers says, ‘Although we didn't manage to get our faces on TV, it was a fun and rewarding day working with a local community’. How miraculous that growing on my own little plot of land are plants that can turn the dead soil into a hundred flavours as different as horseradish and thyme, smells ranging from stinkhorn to lavender. John Seymour 5 Curator’s Report: August – November 2012 During the last four months, Treborth has hosted 17 events for local organisations ranging from regular users such as the Gwynedd Guild of Spinners and Weavers to occasional users such as the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust and visiting special interest groups such Mold Garden Club. The Friends arranged another very successful Plant Sale and organised an interesting programme of events including an evening walk through the botanic garden woodland. A three-day fungus identification course for Aberystwyth University’s Department of Life-Long Learning run at Treborth by the curator proved very successful as did events provided for Distance Learning Foresters as well as the annual week-long field trip for final year horticulture students from Kew’s prestigious Horticultural Diploma course (see Sheila Das’s article elsewhere in this newsletter). Philip Snow led an introductory wildlife art class in October and the Garden hosted two fine art student work days. Practical classes for a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses were held during the first Semester including an environmental audit undertaken by Environmental Management students who study jointly with the School of Environment and Natural resources and Geography and the School of Business Studies. Visits to Treborth were made by Dr Natasha de Vere, Head of Conservation Research at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, and Dr Diane Reynolds, Environment and Sustainable Change Manager for the Welsh Government. These visits provided opportunity to discuss some longer term plans for Treborth involving the academic development of a new MSc in Plant Conservation, and the potential for Treborth to become more involved with promoting the value of plants in the wider Welsh countryside.
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