Talks, tours and workshops

Upcoming opportunities to hear more about some of the plants featured in ‘Molecules, Medicines and Mischief’ and ‘The Plants of Dr Bach’ (and others) and their stories.

Gwenda is a member of the Garden Media Guild.

Tuesday 13th February 2024: Granta Flower Club, Great Shelford Memorial Hall, 7 pm (AP)

Thursday 22nd February 2024: Rest Less Events online talk, 4 pm (TT); Booking at https://events.restless.co.uk/event-calendar/twelve-tremendous-trees/

Wednesday 13th March 2024: Landbeach WI, Village Hall, 7.30 pm (AP)

Monday 18th March 2024: West Wickham and District Gardening Club, Village Hall, West Wickham, 7.30 pm (TT)

Wednesday 20th March 2024: Ellesmere Garden Club, The Ellesmere Centre, Stetchworth; 7.30 pm (PP)

Thursday 28th March 2024: NHS Retired Fellowship Group, Fulbourn, 10.30 am (PP)

Tuesday 9th April 2024: Histon and Impington Garden Club,  Histon Methodist Church Hall, Histon High Street, 7.30 pm (FF)

Thursday 11th April 2024: Acton Garden Group, Acton Village Hall (TT)

Tuesday 16th April 2024: Swaffham Prior Village Gardeners’ Club; Swaffham Prior Village Hall, High Street, Swaffham Prior, CB25 0LD, 8 pm (FF)

Wednesday 17th April 2024: Fulbourn WI, The Swifts, Fulbourn CB21 5HD, 2 pm (FF)

Friday 19th April and Saturday 20th April 2024: CNHS Conversazione, Elementary Lab., Zoology Dept., Downing Site, Cambridge; 1 – 6 pm (Fri) and 10 am – 5 pm (Sat). My exhibit ‘Feisty Food Plants…and How to Tame Them’.

Tuesday 23rd April 2024: Glemsford Gardening Club, Village Hall, Glemsford; 7.30 pm (BP)

Friday 21st June 2024: Chatteris U3A, 10.30 am (TT)

Thursday 27th June: Rest Less events online, 11.30 am (MP).  Booking details to follow.

Saturday 7th September 2024: Stourbridge Fair, 12 – 4.30 pm

Tuesday 10th September 2024: Holywell-cum-Needingworth Gardening Club, 7.45 pm (TT)

Wednesday 18th September 2024: Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Incredible Edible (and Drinkable) Plants; 10 am – 1 pm

Monday 7th October 2024: Over WI; Over Community Centre, 7.30 pm (TT)

Saturday 12th October 2024: Cambridgeshire Plant Heritage, venue TBA, 2.30 pm (FF)

Tuesday 15th October 2024: Fulbourn Gardening Society; The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, CB21 5HD; 7.30 pm (TT)

Wednesday 12th February 2025: Whittlesford Gardening Club; Whittlesford Memorial Hall, Mill Lane Whittlesford, CB22 4NE; 8 pm (CW)

Tuesday 25th February 2025: Glemsford Gardening Club, Village Hall, Glemsford; 7.30 pm

Tuesday 4th March 2025: Fulbourn Ladies’ Group, The Swifts Meeting Rooms, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge CB21 5HD; 7.30 pm (AP)

Sunday 13th April 2025: Norfolk & Norwich Horticultural Society, The Costessey Centre, Longwater Lane, Norwich, NR8 5AH; 1.30 pm (TT)

Thursday 25th September 2025: Risby Garden Club, Risby Village Hall, 7.30 pm (AP)

Available talks:

People and Plants: Molecules, Medicines and Mischief (some uses and abuses of a selection of plants) (PP)

Incredible Edible (and Drinkable) Plants (a selection of plants used in food and drinks and their useful properties) (FF) (WA)

More Incredible Edible (and Drinkable) Plants (some more examples, ‘to cook or not to cook’ and some veggies with consequences) (FF2)

Twelve Tremendous Trees (Our relationship with twelve well-known trees) (TT) (WA)

The Plants of Dr Bach: Remedies and More! (an introduction to the Flower Remedies and some of the plants used to make them) (BP)

Plants to Drugs (drug development from plant-sourced compounds – past and future) (PD)

Chemical Warfare (and Co-operation) in the Garden (how plants interact with the world around them) (CW) (WA)

Medieval Medicinal Plants: Miasmas, Monks and Mandrake (medieval medicine and the plants it used) (MP)(WA)

Plant Muses: Artists’ use of plants (how plants have influenced art, as subjects, symbols and sources of materials) (PM)(WA)

Secrets of the Bach Flower Remedy Plants (available as a full-day or two half-day workshops on the plants used to make the Bach flower remedies) (WA)

Aromatherapy Plants: The Scent of Good Health (some plants which provide essential oils used in aromatherapy will be explored) (AP)(WA)

All talks can be either 45 or 60 minutes, as required.  Longer workshops also also available on request for talks with (WA).

Walks:  Photos from the Cambridge Science Festival 2017, courtesy of Mo Sibbons. Although I appear to be ‘talking to the trees’, there were also other people there but out of shot!