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Friends of Bedgebury Magazine Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2016 Free to £1 members Friends of Bedgebury Magazine Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2016 www.bedgeburypinetum.org.uk Friends of Bedgebury Welcome Magazine Issue 8 by Katherine Jary Autumn/Winter We all love Bedgebury, but I’m certain that our reasons for doing so differ. The Friends’ charitable objectives focus on the Pinetum, tree knowledge and tree conservation, 2016 but we know that this is only a small part of the story of Bedgebury. To achieve our objectives, we want to celebrate everything that is special about Bedgebury, and especially the Pinetum, and to let everyone know that it is more than just an internationally important and unique tree collection. Welcome 1 Bees at Bedgebury 22 Editor’s Letter 2 The Old Man of Kent 24 The Pinetum makes our job really easy! It is an extraordinary place. Framed by its majestic conifer specimens, the Pinetum is also full of wonderful broadleaf tree favourites creating What is a BioBlitz? 4 Pine Cones 26 a woodland environment that is home to a huge array of rare and endangered flora and Conservation in Action 6 Another Flower in our Bouquet 28 fauna; from our elusive grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae) to the now emblematic firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), the delicate English eyebright (Euphrasia anglica) to the bold and The Gruffalo at Bedgebury 7 Our Partners 30 beautiful violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus). The list of rare or nationally important Some Wild Flowers at Bedgebury 10 Membership Information 32 species at Bedgebury is a long and exciting one. Events and Activities 14 Looking for Gift Ideas? 33 The Sport of Canicross at Bedgebury 20 follow us on www.bedgeburypinetum.org.uk This magazine is free to members. Grizzled skipper Firecrest English eyebright Violet webcap However, a donation of 40p would pay for the cost (Pyrgus malvae) (Regulus ignicapilla) (Euphrasia anglica) (Cortinarius violaceus) of printing it. A donation of £1 would enable us to Editor: raise funds for something you love at Bedgebury. Katherine Jary. In this edition we will celebrate the stories from August’s BioBlitz; an event which served to Proof Readers: showcase Bedgebury’s biodiversity in all its glory. With so many successful BioBlitz events now Cover: Elspeth Hill, Rachel Mason having taken place all over the country, some of which were featured on the BBC’s Springwatch and John Gordon. Common toad (Bufo bufo). earlier this year, we hope that this event will become a permanent fixture in the Bedgebury Contributing Photographers: calendar. Keep an eye on our website for details of the next BioBlitz planned for 2017/18! Despite the rain and wind, our visiting public and wildlife experts Luke Wallace, Sue Buckingham, weren’t deterred at this year’s 48-hour Bedgebury BioBlitz! Ian Beavis, Mark Clixby, The experts, once again, added an enormous amount to our Mina McPhee and David Jenner. understanding of Bedgebury’s unique wildlife composition. If you Love Bedgebury, and wish to support and promote the site’s Contributing Florilegium Artists: biodiversity and conservation efforts, there are a myriad of ways However, it was our citizen scientists who recorded the site’s Sandra Fernandez, Helen Hiorns, you can help. Donate to the Friends, become a member, attend an reptiles at this year’s BioBlitz. It’s always nice to find amphibians Pearl Bostock and Julia Groves. event or sponsor a signature tree, Pinetum bench or new mosaic on site as they are having a tough time of it, being in decline both block, and you will be able to make your mark at Bedgebury. Visit in the UK and globally. Common toads, which are not quite so Design: common these days, were found on both Bedgebury BioBlitz days. Fraser Allen. www.bedgeburypinetum.org.uk to find out more! Printed on FSC certified paper. 1 Editor’s Letter by Katherine Jary ‘... And it is that range of biodiversity that we must care for BioBlitz, on pages 28 to 29 we explain the On pages 14 to 18 you can find a complete origins of our Florilegium and the important list of our events this autumn and winter, - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.’ role they play at Bedgebury. including details of this year’s Christmas David Attenborough in Victoria Martindale’s tree sales and festive activities on page 17. No Friends’ magazine or biodiversity theme We also have a feature on pages 20 to 21 ‘Is it worth saving the world’s most worthless species?’, IUCN. would be complete without Bedgebury’s from parkrun Canicross runner and regular conifer conservation stories and unusual dog-walker, Jenny Lee, on why she thinks At Bedgebury, the work undertaken in the more to our work than just this. In doing our conifer facts. Find out how maths makes its Bedgebury is the perfect place for runners Pinetum does, inevitably, seem to focus work in the Pinetum, a glorious landscape way into the Pinetum on pages 26 to 27 and and dog lovers all year round. on only one star of the plant world, the containing several BAP (Biodiversity Action read our tribute, on pages 24 to 25, to the conifer. However, whilst at Bedgebury our Plan) designated landscapes, we are doing Old Man of Kent, sadly felled this summer. With wider conservation objectives in mind, principal purpose is to collect the seed of much more to promote biodiversity and threatened conifer species and to propagate conservation than our work with conifers We hope that, in time, some of the grand fir and a desire to support all things tree- those that might survive our temperate suggests. DEFRA has defined our ‘Lowland dry seeds collected in the USA last year will grow related, the Friends continue to promote climate, our tree expertise is sought by acid grassland’, ‘Purple moor grass and rush to replace the Old Man. To help members and support all the Pinetum’s flora and organisations all over the world, with seed pastures’ and ‘European dry heath’ habitats, understand the importance of the Friends- fauna. Whether or not conifer conservation from all sorts of rare or endangered plant and their associated species, as some of funded, Bedgebury-led 2015 USA expedition, is your first love, we believe that there is species collected on our collaborative the most threatened in the UK. By protecting we gave them the chance, in March, to hear something in the Pinetum to enthuse and expeditions. Not only has Bedgebury made the Pinetum and promoting a conservation about the expedition from two of the team’s engage all our members and visitors. the news with the propagation of the conifer, message therein, we are doing our bit to intrepid explorers, the Forestry Commission’s We will continue to support and promote Xanthocyparis vietnamensis, but also protect the important range of biodiversity in Dan Luscombe and the Friends’ Luke Wallace. everything the Pinetum has to offer with the critically endangered Japanese birch, these rare habitats. On page 6, two of the Friends’ members events, activities and news stories to help Betula chichibuensis. However, there is This August, the Pinetum played host to who attended the event explain how they everyone understand the role of Bedgebury Pinetum BAP Habitat Map a BioBlitz, a wildlife-recording event that feel about their Bedgebury membership as and the importance of our tree collection. succeeded in showcasing the Pinetum and its a result of this inside view of the Pinetum’s extraordinary biodiversity. The purpose of the conservation work. BioBlitz process is explained by ecologist Luke Wallace, on pages 4 to 5, along with details of some of the most notable finds by our citizen scientists and biological recorders. On pages 10 to 13 and pages 22 to 23 respectively, botanist To read Victoria Martindale’s article follow this link to the IUCN website: Sue Buckingham and invertebrate specialist Ian Beavis, share some of the Pinetum’s special http://www.iucn.org/content/it-worth-saving-world%E2%80%99s-most-worthless-species bee and wild flower finds from the summer. If you want to do your bit for biodiversity, supporting Bedgebury and the work of the For our younger readers, on pages 7 to 9 Pinetum with your time as a volunteer, your membership, or a sponsorship or donation, can we take a light-hearted look at the role of the make a difference. Gruffalo in the biodiversity of British woodland Key: environments as ecologist, Emma Brown, We hope that by understanding a little more about the extraordinary Pinetum environment, Purple moor grass and rush pasture introduces us to the real creatures behind the our members can work with us to protect it, by redirecting cyclists to the forest, protecting Lowland dry acid grassland book and explores their lives at Bedgebury. For flora and fauna from damage (intentional or otherwise) and encouraging dog owners to keep those who enjoyed seeing our botanic artists, European dry heath their dogs on leads in the Pinetum. We are protecting far more than just the trees in this lovely Bedgebury’s Florilegium, in action during the space and your help really makes a difference. Come along to the next Bedgebury BioBlitz in Semi-improved lowland meadow 2017/18 to join the fun and find out more! 2 3 What is a BioBlitz? Highlights from August included: by Luke Wallace Anyone who was on site in August, will know that Bedgebury held a successful and engaging BioBlitz event… but what exactly is a BioBlitz and what are the benefits? ‘Bio’ (life) and ‘Blitz’ (to do something quickly Mnolf / CC-BY-SA-3. and intensively) together make ‘BioBlitz’, a The sea of lilac created by The experts were awed by an Cychrus caraboides, a collaborative race against the clock to discover devil’s-bit scabious was aerial display of bats as they specialist snail-hunting as many species of plants, animals and fungi spectacular while locally rare scooped insects off the lakes.
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