The Next Meeting:

The next meeting will be on Monday 6th February. Alan Outen, co-author of the recently published "Flora of Bedfordshire", will be presenting his new talk, 'Botanising in the Steps of Dracula'. Visitors are welcome. Meetings are from 19:30 to 21:30, with the speaker beginning at 20:00. Entry is £2 for Group members, £3 for visitors and free for children and students; this fee includes refreshments.

There are no names down on the raffle or refreshments rotas.

The competition for February is:

  •  One pan bulbous plant in flower
  • One pan primulaceae
  • One pan rock plant for foliage effect
  • One pan rock plant in flower, excl. bulbous and primulaceae

      Novice:

  • One pan rock plant in flower
  • One pan rock plant not in flower

       Artistic:  One photos of alpine(s) in the wild

Monthly Meetings for the 2010 - 2011 Year:

Date

Speaker

Talk

Refreshments Rota

Raffle Rota 

7th November

Roger and Penny Gray

Sichuan

5th December

Bob and Rannveig Wallis

Bulbous Habitats

6th February

Alan Outen

Botanising in the Steps of Dracula

5th March

Rod Leeds

Bulbs throughout the Year

2nd April

Trevor Wiltshire

Building a WWF Garden in Turkey

7th May

Vic Aspland

With Great Pleasure

4th June

John Good

Dwarf Shrubs

2nd July

Ray Drew

Gothenburg Botanical Garden

6th August

Graham Nicholls

North American Alpines - From the Rockies to Alaska

3rd September

Jim and Christine McGregor

Plants From Our Garden

1st October

Annual General Meeting

T.B.C.