Fern News Round-up 2010 North-West England AGM
Manchester & North-Midlands
The North-West Group held their AGM at Holehird Garden in the Lake District. This was a very well attended meeting, and the setting of the garden was shown off particularly well by very good weather.
This is a new group set up by Yvonne Golding, and the meeting was held at The Firs Garden which is part of the University of Manchester.
The highlight of this AGM was without doubt the excellent and comprehensive talk given by Fred Rumsey of the Natural History Museum on the ferns of the Azores. He covered all the islands, and discussed their differing climates and habitats, in what was a very engaging presentation. After the business part of the AGM, there was an Open Forum in which members made presentations of their own on a number of topics of interest, which was a fascinating round-up to the day. There was also an indoor and outdoor fern competition, and again plant sales including some of Ken Trewren’s collection, which raised a considerable amount of money for the MacMillan Nurses. Do you have any regional news for future Issues of the Fern World Newsletter? Just let the Publicity Team know and we’ll include it in the next issue!
A small but friendly group meeting; the highlight of the agenda was Yvonne’s wonderful slides and talk on the BPS recent exploratory expedition to Yunnan Province in China. After the AGM the floor was opened to other members of the group to give talks or show and tells, and again some fascinating material was brought forward.
(Fern border at the Firs. Photo: Yvonne Golding)
The group was also treated to a tour of the garden and glasshouses, as well as a look inside the “moss house” which contains some fantastic specimens of many different dark and damp loving varieties of fern.
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