Workshops

• Conifer Workshops
• Alchemilla Workshop
• Sedges Workshop
• Field Studies Council courses

SATURDAY 27 MARCH
CONIFER WORKSHOP- PERTH (v.c.88)
Leaders: Cameron Crook & Jim McIntosh

This workshop will be repeated at Reelig, near Inverness on Sunday 28 March. The event is being repeated so that members can choose to attend their nearest venue to minimise travel.

Conifers are rather poorly understood by botanists and therefore under-recorded, despite their importance to Scotland’s landscape and economy. This workshop aims to promote a better understanding and better recording. This one day workshop follows on from the theme of the Spring Conference in Berwick-upon-Tweed last May.

Places will be strictly limited to 12. Bookings from Vice-county Recorders received by 1st March will get priority. For further information and to book, please write to Mrs Jane Jones, BSBI Admin Assistant, Cuilvona Cottage, Aberfoyle, Stirling, FK8 3TQ

SUNDAY 28 MARCH
CONIFER WORKSHOP- REELIG, WESTERNESS (v.c.96)Y 28 MARCH
Leaders: Cameron Crook & Jim McIntosh

This a repeat of the workshop held near Perth on Saturday 27 March. The event is being repeated so that members can choose to attend their nearest venue to minimise travel.

Conifers are rather poorly understood by botanists and therefore under-recorded, despite their importance to Scotland’s landscape and economy. This workshop aims to promote a better understanding and better recording. This one day workshop follows on from the theme of the Spring Conference in Berwick-upon-Tweed last May.

Places will be strictly limited to 12. Bookings from Vice-county Recorders received by 1st March will get priority. For further information and to book, please write to Mrs Jane Jones, BSBI Admin Assistant, Cuilvona Cottage, Aberfoyle, Stirling, FK8 3TQ.

SATURDAY 17 - SUNDAY 18 JULY
ALCHEMILLA WORKSHOP
GLEN CLOVA (v.c. 90)
Leader: Margaret Bradshaw

The aim of this workshop is to promote a better understanding and better recording of Alchemillas in Scotland. The workshop will start in the classroom on Saturday morning and go out into the field in the afternoon, and be entirely field based on the Sunday. We will be in Glen Clova on Saturday, where there is a good selection of Alchemilla species and where the Vice-county recorder has recently found Alchemilla glaucescens. We will look for Alchemilla wichurae and other species on The Cairnwell 933m, Glenshee on the Sunday, weather permitting.

Places will be strictly limited to 15. Bookings from Vice-county Recorders received by 1st March will get priority. For further information and to book, please write to Mrs Jane Jones, BSBI Admin Assistant, Cuilvona Cottage, Aberfoyle, Stirling, FK8 3TQ

SATURDAY 7th AUGUST 2010
INTRODUCTION TO SEDGES
WHITLAW MOSSES NNR, ROXBURGHSHIRE (v.c. 80)
Leaders: Jim McIntosh

Whitlaw Mosses is an extremely rich and diverse series of basin mires. It has a remarkably diverse sedge flora including, amongst many others, Carex paniculata, C. diandra (Greater and Lesser Tussock-sedge), C. lasiocarpa (Slender Sedge) and Carex limosa (Bog-sedge). The emphasis of this field meeting will be on learning to identify sedges and we would particularly welcome sedge-beginners.

For further information and to book, please write to Mrs Jane Jones, BSBI Admin Assistant, Cuilvona Cottage, Aberfoyle, Stirling, FK8 3TQ. For more general information about Whitlaw Mosses NNR see www.nnr-scotland.org.uk

Field Studies Council botanical courses

The FSC offer a range of botanical courses, to suit all levels, in Scotland at their Kindrogan field centre and across the UK. For more information visit the FSC's website

   Last updated : January 12th 2010