Editorial Richard Pryce As I write, there is hope that an improvement in the Covid situation may allow us to get back to normal after our field meeting programme was severely disrupted over the past two years. Whilst we have missed getting together in person, it has necessitated the Committee for Wales meeting remotely which, however, has had the advantage of saving a lot of travelling. Zoom meetings have also allowed BSBI members as well as members of other national societies to attend lectures held centrally that they would never have contemplated in the past. Also local groups such as the Llanelli Naturalists have been able to follow suit, when recent remote evening meetings have been ‘attended’ by members living in Cambridge, London and elsewhere. However, we should also be aware that some members are not able to easily access a remote meeting. The conifer workshop, the first Welsh meeting of 2022, was very successful and we hope that the programme for the rest of the season will go ahead without interruption. I expect that it will be possible to hold single-day meetings without much problem but the Welsh AGM in Bangor and the Glynhir and Caeduon recording meetings are all residential so may be susceptible to cancellation or curtailment at short notice. Please keep an eye on the BSBI website just in case! My co-editors and I hope you enjoy the range of articles in this issue of the Bulletin. We have been promised a couple of items for the next number, but we are always anxious to receive reports, accounts, histories, short notes, etc, in other words, any subject that would be of topical interest to other members. The next issue will also include Welsh Plant Records, so if you have any records that you have not yet sent to your Vice-County Recorder, please do so without delay. I’m sure you will join me in hoping for a complete and uninterrupted field meeting season and I look forward to meeting you or seeing you again at some time during the year.
BSBI Welsh Bulletin No. 109 March 2022
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