Plants from the Edge of the World - talk at Kew

[Jodie]

Tony Kirkham (head of Kew Arboretum and co-presenter of "The Trees
that Made Britain) is giving a talk tonight at 6.30 at the Jodrell
Lecture theatre, Kew on replacing trees lost after the 1987 storm.

First come, first served - £2.

Tony Kirkham's talk
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kmis/pages/lectures/tonykirkham.htm

Other talks at Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kmis/pages/lectures/schedule.htm

Jo

 

[Wayland]

Shame it's in the "old smoke". that sounds interesting.

 

[Jodie]

It was wonderful. He chatted for an hour and a half about four expeditions
to pick up some seeds to replant Kew and Wakehurst Place; showing
slides of plants, mountains and people. He used all the scientific terms for
them (I felt like I'd gatecrashed a party of botanists) so I just had to look
at the pictures

Actually it would go down quite well at the Royal Geographical place - they
rather like expedition slides.

Lovely evening all round - a nice walk to the lecture theatre along tree lined
streets and Kew Gdns station is gorgeous.

The evening started with a woman getting members of the audience to
participate in a recreation of sounds of a rainforest with bamboo rain sticks,
stuffed toy birds from Kew's shop and strange things that sounded like
thunder.

All good, if a little unusual