Botany (SCE 03)

  • Day and time: Mondays - every three weeks approximately in autumn and spring 14:00 - 16:30
  • Length of course: 3 terms. Autumn (4 Weeks), Spring (4 Weeks), Summer (8 Weeks)
  • Number of places: 60
  • Start date: 07 October 2024
  • Description:

    The group promotes the study and enjoyment of plants. Indoor illustrated talks are held at approximately 3 week intervals on Monday afternoons in the Autumn and Spring term at Comberton Village Hall. Provisional Dates for 2024/25 are 7 Oct, 28 Oct, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13 Jan, 3 Feb, 24 Feb, 17 March. This is followed in the summer by a programme of field trips whose planning is assisted by the membership. Some visits are guided by outside botanists, and others by members of the group. A detailed programme is sent out in March. Car-sharing is encouraged. Members should acquire guide(s) to the wild flowers (including grasses, sedges & rushes) of the British Isles; recommendations will be made. A good X10 hand lens is useful. We collect a small voluntary contribution at the beginning of the year to pay speakers' expenses and for donations to trust sites that we visit.

  • Format: Lectures and field trips

  • Leader: Dermot MF Cooper
  • Nicola is a keen amateur botanist. who co-ordinates the summer programme; Dermot is also an amateur botanist and plant photographer, who coordinates the winter programme

  • Co-leader: Nicola Gardner
  • Keen amateur botanist. I organise the Summer programme.


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