Category Archives: Wild Flowers

The Autumn Flowers of the Peloponnese

We were joined on 22nd November by Joe Sharman, the owner of Monksilver Nursery in Cambridgeshire. Joe is a renowned plantsman with a particular interest in snowdrops. However he lectures on a wide variety of topics and today he came to … Continue reading

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Exploring Traditional Wildflower Names – Twigs Way

On Tuesday 8th September we were joined by Dr Twigs Way, well known garden historian.  Again, this was a Zoom meeting and we were pleased to welcome 33 members and visitors to this session. Twigs imparted a wealth of information on the … Continue reading

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Plant Hunting in Eastern Anatolia by Timothy Walker

The title of the talk given by Timothy Walker at our meeting on 19 March was ″Plant Hunting In Eastern Anatolia″. Timothy is a former Director of the Oxford University Botanic Garden, a lecturer at several Oxford colleges and is also … Continue reading

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Biddenham Wild Flowers

Our wild flower garden is ‘blooming’, some amazing colours – just hope that there are more to come … Note: Jeremy advises that the main mix of seeds is the same as used last year: Pictorial Meadows Standard/Classic annual mix: … Continue reading

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Wild Flowers in the Garden, revisited

Our BGA talk in June has been republished to include photos provided courtesy of Dr Peter Llewellyn, from his ‘UK Wildflowers’ website. The images included here only relate to those described in Jeremy’s report – to view the full extent of our … Continue reading

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Outing to Orchard Grange, Old Warden – 2nd July 2014

Many of you will remember that in September last year Victoria Diggle, Assistant County Organiser for the National Gardens Scheme, gave us a fascinating insight into how the scheme started.  Victoria went on to talk about her own garden, Orchard … Continue reading

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Wild Flowers in the Garden – David Bevan

At our meeting on 17th June David Bevan, London Secretary of the Wildflower Society, spoke on the subject of wild flowers in the garden. Starting as  garden designer David has spent most of his working life as a  nature conservation … Continue reading

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Wildflower bed – update June 2014

Following on from last years initial activity in the ‘wildflower bed’, Linda has recently taken these photo’s that show how our wildflowers have progressed … At the end of October on a lovely sunny afternoon four members of the BGA … Continue reading

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Wildflower Bed – October 2013

At the end of October on a lovely sunny afternoon four members of the BGA met at the entrance to Deep Spinney to prepare the bed for a wildflower display. We laid out the plan of the bed, took the … Continue reading

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