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Pinaceae

IDS Yearbook 2022

Monique Gudgeon
Any opportunity to visit a garden, especially a botanic garden, is never one to be missed, so it was with great excitement that I put my name down for the second IDS conifer study day at Bicton Park Botanic Garden in Devon. As a newcomer to all things coniferous... View PDF

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Rubus

IDS Yearbook 2022

Koen Camelbeke
On Saturday 1 October a group of members from Belgium, the 209 Netherlands, Germany, England and Scotland, met at Arboretum Kalmthout for a study day on this little known but both interesting and useful group of plants. Koen Camelbeke writes about... View PDF

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Thenford

IDS Yearbook 2022

Lucy Bidgood
On a bright morning in May, the grass on the village green sparkling with dew, IDS members arrived to enjoy a day of hospitality from Lord Heseltine and his family at Thenford Arboretum. Thenford House and the surrounding land has a history of being gardened and... View PDF

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Woodland gardens

IDS Yearbook 2022

Aude de Liedekerke
On 5 and 6 May 2022, a weekend was held in the north of England to study the planting and management of woodland gardens. Aude de Liedekerke writes about the lectures and garden visits that took place at Gresgarth Hall and Holker Hall, both locations with exceptional... View PDF

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Cupressaceae identification

IDS Yearbook 2021

Roderick White
On 18 November 2021, a keen group of dendrologists eager to learn more about conifers met at Kildown Village Hall for a morning of presentations by Tom Christian that were followed after lunch by a walk around Bedgebury Pinetum, led by... View PDF

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Fagus

IDS Yearbook 2021

Piotr Krasiński and Gert Fortgens
On 14 October, a small group of members met to study the genus Fagus at Arboretum Trompenburg before travelling to Arboretum Kalmthout the following day. Piotr Krasiński writes about some of the highlights and Gert Fortgens reports on... View PDF

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Tree health

IDS Yearbook 2021

Elizabeth Balmforth
We arrived at the arboretum on a beautiful crisp autumnal morning and made our way to the new Tree Plant Health Centre entrance, past a lovely Sorbus pseudohupehensis laden with berries, caught in a shaft of light. This training day was to raise awareness, explain more about... View PDF

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Grafting

IDS Yearbook 2020

Eike Jablonski
The horticultural department of the Lycée Technique Agricole (LTA) in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, has a unique collection of trees in the adjacent arboretum. It houses the ‘forgotten’ cultivars of many woody genera, mainly of Central European origin. It serves as a gene bank for these cultivars which are... View PDF

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Prunus

IDS Yearbook 2019

Harry Baldwin and Timothy Shaw
Almonds, apricots, cherries, gages, peaches and plums are just some of the important food commodities that are associated with the genus Prunus. There are over 300 accepted species, most of which occur in the northern hemisphere, yet surprisingly many occur in... View PDF

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Seed to tree

IDS Yearbook 2019

David Howells
We met in the Great Oak Hall, a fine and appropriately named modern building. We were greeted by 72 seed trays, brimming with seeds of all shapes, colours, forms and sizes. Without the labels it would have made a challenging identification test. Our hosts for the morning were… View PDF

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Trees for the future

IDS Yearbook 2019

Harriet Tupper
The lecture room at the Chelsea Physic Garden was packed and it was good to see the crowd included some of our younger, professional members on whom trees in the future will depend, even if we all, young and old, are planting. The day was planned on the assumption that climate change will… View PDF

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Nantes, western France

IDS Yearbook 2018

Philippe de Spoelberch
Our first stop was at the Jardins des Plantes where we were met by Jacques Soignon, James Garnett, Laure Guillemette, and the Director, Romaric Perrocheau. The Jardin des Plantes is free to enter, and had 2.2 million visitors in 2017 and is a top attraction on TripAdvisor. The main... View PDF

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Winter Trees, Yorkshire Arboretum

IDS Yearbook 2018

Antonia Johnson
...our host John Grimshaw gave a short history of the arboretum: how what we saw (blessed with autumn sunshine rather than winter gloom) represented tiers of landscape: ancient parkland was succeeded by farmland and the drive to ‘dig for victory’; then in 1979 it was... View PDF