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Wivenhoe WEA - Spring Course 2009 Wivenhoe WEA will be starting the New Year with a new course. The Spring course for 2009 will be The Plant Hunters and the tutor will be Peter White. Over 10 weeks we will look at the history behind all those plants in our houses, gardens, greenhouses and parks which have come from every corner of the world and we which now think of as part of the essential English garden. We will find out about the
people who scoured the Americas
from Hudson
’s Bay to the Pampas, from the Appalachians to the Palisades; who
explored the Pacific and the Himalayas; who opened our eyes to the plants
of Africa and We will hear more about the names behind some of our favourite plants; the Tradescants, Banks, Veitch, Wilson, Thunberg, Siebold and countless others. What’s more the story
isn’t all about people before our time – I can remember Frank Kingdon
Ward talking on the radio in ‘Children’s Hour’ about his plant
hunting adventures in The course will be held at For more information please
contact Janice Allen, 1 Valfreda Way, Wivenhoe, tel: 01206 824470. Austin Baines, Chairman For the Wivenhoe WEA home page, click here |