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| A summer field trip - members at Banque Imbert, Bordeaux. |
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| Winter outing member at Le Grand Pré,
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Botany
The Botany Section of La Société Guernesiaise is an active group of some 60 members some of whom live overseas. The latter also receive our monthly newsletter and join our meetings when they are on the island. Regular outdoor meetings are held once a month except for indoor sessions in January and February. Everyone is welcome to attend and we appreciate input on other areas of interest that members can contribute.
The monthly newsletter contains a report of the previous meeting, including the names of plants we saw and other points of interest, as well as notable records of botanical finds, details of forthcoming meetings, important dates etc.
The Section as a whole collects all Bailiwick records for plants, and participates in all important national surveys, providing information to the Botanical Society of the British Isles, the Wild Flower Society, Plantlife, and to many individuals, be they professionals, amateurs or visitors. We also maintain a large herbarium of dried plant specimens, some of which are over 200 years old, the most recent added a few weeks ago. This collection can be available to anyone for study purposes.
The aim of the outings is to explore the rich variety of habitats that the island offers so we can enjoy botany and its associated wildlife. We study trees and lower plants as well as our familiar native wild flowers. We may see rarities as well as the many alien plants that have settled here. One thing is for certain, there is always plenty to see!
Programme of Events
| Orchid fields |
| Saturday 2nd June 14:15 |
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Meet at the Bridget Ozanne orchid fields, Perry's p.20C3 |
| Beach plants at Bordeaux |
| Saturday 7th July 14:15 |
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Please meet at Bordeaux car park (N side) to look at Salsify and Bee Orchids on mound, Perry's P.7H5 |
| Botany at Vazon |
| Saturday 4th August 14:15 |
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Please meet at Crabby Jack's to look at damp areas for Slender Centaury etc, Perry's p.14B1 |
| Botany at Chouet |
| Saturday 1st September 14:15 |
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Please meet by the kiosk at Chouet for a road walk over the hill, looking for Alderney Geranium. Perry's P.6B2 |
| Botany at Rousse |
| Saturday 6th October 14:15 |
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Please meet at 2.15pm at Rousse Tower for a coastal walk looking for Nottingham Catchfly, Perry's P.33F2 |
| Botany in St Pierre du Bois |
| Saturday 3rd November 14:15 |
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Meet at the church at St Pierre du Bois for a walk around the lanes. Perry's P.27F1, 2.15pm. |
| Botany at La Salerie |
| Saturday 1st December 14:15 |
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Meet at the Salerie car park, Perry's P.17H3, at 2.15 for a walk through the inlanes to St John's and the Longstore. |
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Botany Group at Vale Castle October 2011
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Nottingham Catchfly at Port Grat
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Salsify
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Orchid on Bordeaux mound
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Marsh Pennywort
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Autumn colour in Hornbeam at the Reservoir
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Ivy being pollinated on Icart headland
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Cyclamen hederifolium beside Odeon car park
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Polypody on a wall in St Peter Port
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Narcissus tazetta near Fort Le Crocq early
2008
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Sea Rocket and seedlings at Pecqueries
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Winter Heliotrope in St Andrew's last spring |
Elaeagnus macrophylla with its fragrant flowers
near Portelet |
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A liverwort, Fossombronia anglosa, and its sporophyte. This
is abundant in Guernsey. |
A brown seaweed,
Laminaria ochroleuca, in a rock pool at Saints Harbour. |
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| A bracket
fungus, Inonotus dryadeus, on Turkey Oak at the Priaulx Library |
Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus
ostreatus, on a palm tree in Charles David's garden |
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| Teloschistes
flavicans, a bright yellow lichen, which is very rare in mainland
Britain, only found on one site on the cliffs in Guernsey |
The lichen Ramalina
fastigiata, on Blackthorn in Herm |
Candie Gardens, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1UG, Channel Islands.
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