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    Daily Express – Out and About at the Garden

    by Bruce Langridge

    In Niovember 2013, the Daily Express gave the Garden a great write up.

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    Tropical house and signs of Autumn

    by Colin Miles

    Our walk in the Great Glasshouse had yielded some interesting results, but the one on the 22nd to the Tropical House wasn’t quite so good, mainly because it was so hot and steamy – no surprise there but it did shorten the time spent there. Not much to see except woodlice, spiders and some fung, […]

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    What are these Fungi?

    by David Hardy

    This week something a little different.  There was a walk in Pont Felin Gat and John took lots of photos of Fungi.  Trouble is we don’t know the names of most of them.  So can you help? [nggallery id=437] If you find an injured bird, hedgehog or other wild animal and want help and advice […]

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    Curator’s Blog October 2013

    by Bruce Langridge

    Well it has been a fantastic summer an excellent growing year and a year where we have been able to get stuck in to all manner of tasks in the garden. Now it is raining the leaves are turning colour and the days are rapidly shortening; with the shorter days a flurry of short day […]

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    Tree survey

    by David Hardy

    The health of trees is a subject that has recently been in the news with the decision in to fell larch trees around the lake at Bwlch Nant-yr-Arian, near Aberystwyth, because they have been infected with a fatal tree disease, Ramorum.  Nearer home we were pleased to hear that the earlier reports of Ash dieback […]

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    Fun Amongst the Fungi

    by Bruce Langridge

    When is a mushroom a mushroom? When is a toadstool a toadstool? I don’t know the answer so I looked in my dictionary and it said that “a toadstool is an inedible fungus with an umbrella shaped fruiting body, as distinguished from an edible mushroom”.  It also said that the name comes from Middle English, […]

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