Friday
6 - Sunday 8 May
Cornwall
Meet at Carwinion
either on Thursday evening or at 10am on Friday morning. Alternatively meet at
Lamorran at 11am.
Friday
6 May
11.00am Lamorran, Upper Castle Road, St Mawes
Directions: take the first right as you enter St Mawes just past the garage
on right.
Spectacular sea views and sub-tropical planting including over 30 species of
hardy palms.
Lunch in the idyllic fishing village of St Mawes.
Afternoon: St Just in Roseland: visit a creek-side church in a sub-tropical
garden.
Penjerrick: exotic and rare plants form a wild but peaceful garden. Saturday
7 May
Morning: Tregrahan: probably
the finest collection of mature rare plants in Cornwall. Huge 19th century
trees and shrubs and many new recently collected wild plants. We will go off
the usual visitor areas to view several new bamboo introductions.
Lunch: the Britannia Inn.
Afternoon: Pine Lodge Gardens: an immaculate 30 acres
containing many rare and wild collected plants. All are well labelled and there
is a good nursery selling many of the plants seen, including some of the new
introductions.
Walk around Carwinion. Sunday
8 May
Morning: By request, a more
leisurely visit to Mike Bell's 1.25 acre bamboo plantation. Alternative venues
in the area will be listed on the map supplied for those who do not wish to
spend the whole morning there.
Lunch: Locally made pasties.
Afternoon: Mike Bell's house and a cream tea.Susanne Lucas, Ned Jaquith and
Delores Holland, all of whom need no introduction for those familiar with bamboo
growing in the USA, will be joining this event. Jan Oprins, the world expert
on micropropagation of bamboos, will be joining us for the three days. Various
talks are organised for the evenings based upon bamboos in America and micropropagation.
This event is shaping into a special meeting not to be missed.Regrettably we
were not able to organise the visit to Tresco this year as the helicopter was
fully booked for the whole weekend. We plan to collect names and money from
members later this year so that we are better placed to book the helicopter
in early January.
As usual there is n charge for the Cornwall meeting, but accommodation, meals and entrance to gardens should be allowed for. If you want to have an evening meal at Carwinion on Friday and/or Saturday please book with Jane Rogers (01326 250258) in advance.
Saturday
11 June
Wisley
Gardens
Meet at the bamboo grove from 10.30 onwards. This is in the corner of the wild garden adjacent to the alpine area and new Japanese Garden. In the afternoon we will explore the rest of the garden.
Saturday
23 & Sunday 24 July
Cheshire
Saturday
23 July
Meet at the entrance to Ness Botanic Gardens at 10.30
am for a tour around this small but very interesting garden containing over 30
new wild collected bamboo introductions hidden in its outer reaches.
Sunday
24 July
For those who wish to make a weekend of this visit,
we plan to visit the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park or another local venue, which
will be agreed on the Saturday.
Sunday
28 August
Kew Gardens
Meet at the Bamboo Garden at 11am for a morning at the bamboo collection and a tour of the gardens in the afternoon.
Saturday
8 October
Annual General Meeting
This will be held at Greville Worthington's home at Brough Park, Richmond, Yorkshire. The AGM will be held on Saturday evening and there will be a full programme during the day on Saturday and on Sunday where possibilities include Castle Howard or similar local venue. Full details will appear in the next Newsletter.