Botanical Section Field Meetings 2010

All meetings are on Saturdays and start at 10.30

29th May Maltby Commons VC63

Meet at the junction of the A634 and B6427 south of Maltby, grid ref SK 535913

19th June Drewton Dale (Wolds) VC61

Meet on the roadside of the A1034, grid ref SE 920322

26th June Farndale VC62

A joint meeting with the BSBI. Meet at Low Mill village, grid ref SE 673952

10th July Ling Gill VC64

Meet on the roadside near High Birkwith Farm, grid ref SD 800767

14th Aug Coverdale VC65

Meet at West Scrafton village, grid ref SE 073836

2nd Oct Section AGM  St Chad's Parish Centre at 2.15pm.

Further details from the section chairman Tel: 01924 273628

Please bring a packed lunch for all meetings.

The Arboretum Trust

Click on this link to see their 2010 programme of Discovery Lectures at Castle Howard

South Yorkshire Plant Atlas

Geoffrey Wilmore and his team have now finished their 7 or more years of fieldwork for the atlas of flowering plants in South Yorkshire. They are now working on getting the results of their labours into print.

Geoffrey's programme of walks to and around some of the best places to find wild flowers in the county was also a great success.

YNU Botanical Section

This section consists of members who are interested in flowering plants and ferns. Special meetings are held in the summer months, one in each vice-county. Members carry out surveys, have plant identification sessions and study the distribution of species within the county. Attending these meetings gives people the opportunity to be shown unusual species and beginners are taught how to identify them. The meetings start at 10.30am and finish at 4pm, and don't involve long walks!

Botanical contacts and Recorders

Yorkshire's botanical heritage

Yorkshire is the largest county in Britain. It is also on the southern boundary of the upland Atlantic flora which require cool wet conditions and on the northern edge of the more drought tolerant plants which need a warmer European climate as found in southern Britain. Within its boundaries are three national parks, containing some of the finest unspoilt upland areas in the country where many unusual plants and habitats are found. In the lowlands of the east large areas of fine agricultural land are interspersed with floodplains with raised bogs and areas of lowland heath. To the west is a belt of magnesian limestone running from County Durham to Nottingham and adjacent to it are the more acidic coal measures. Salt-tolerant plants grow in the coastal fringe and urban areas and “brownfield” sites increase the range of habitats.