Botany Club

Botany Club is a happy, informal group that likes to gently further their knowledge of botany and horticulture. It is now organised by the Friends but open to all. We meet once a month in the summer to visit interesting gardens or wildlife areas, mostly on the Island but sometimes on the Mainland.

Previous trips have included flower meadows, gardens, fungus foray, coastal walk, woodlands, Portsmouth School of Biological Sciences, the historic botanical library at the Institute of Naval Medicine, etc..

Next winter we will be having varied monthly lectures at the Ventnor Arts Club under the heading of Café Botanique. You can find details of the lecture programme as it is announced here.

To cover the increased costs of arranging the lecture programme the will now be a charge to attend the meetings at Ventnor Arts Club. Tickets can be booked in advance Members – £8, Non-members – £10. Tickets (if available) on the door – £10.

We should really welcome some new members so if you would like to put your name on our mailing list please contact Rosemary Stewart on rosemarystewart@icloud.com or 01983 292107.

Botany Club – Winter Programme 2022/23

For details of the visits arranged to date please click HERE

A Forum to share experiences

The Friends of Botanic Gardens Forum (FBGF) of which VBGFS is a member, was set up in September 2019 to encourage information exchange between Friends groups around the UK.

Although the groups operate within different financial and management structures, there is much to be gained by sharing experiences and ideas for activities and fund-raising, and much else.

If you enjoy reading about gardens and looking at lovely pictures, and are interested in what is happening at Botanic Gardens around the country, then head to their website https://fbgf.org to see the Gallery and read the Newsletters.

Rosemary Stewart was our representative from the beginning but relinquished the role to Val Pitts in 2022. In their Summer 2022 newsletter, Rosemary writes her valedictory article about how she became involved at Ventnor. She made a number of other interesting contributions to earlier editions, including one about the hopyard in November 2020. As you can imagine with Rosemary, all are well worth reading.

You can read Rosemary’s article here.

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Botany Club

Botany Club – Winter Programme 2022/23

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