[BSW] June 1 Meeting + Thiers talk + MISC.

[KATHY BILTON]

Our next meeting, the last until September, is coming up on the 1st of 
June at 7pm Eastern. Doors will open by 6:45 for socializing.

Topic: Drakensberg Alpine Grasslands: An assessment of impacts to plant 
diversity of fire and grazing.
(Some results of from a 2020 expedition to South Africa and Lesotho)

Speaker: Robert J. Soreng, PhD, Research Associate, Dept. of Botany, 
Smithsonian Institution.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89044695837?pwd=QUtZQ2c1MmRsRUhETXllc2tVZlZ1UT09
(If needed: Meeting ID: 890 4469 5837   Passcode:  990270 )

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A recording of the Linnean Society talk given on May 13 by Barbara Thiers 
is below.  It was NOT canceled, even though you may have received an email 
saying that it was.  (Possibly the result of an overactive Outlook 
calendar which sent out the email without human intervention...)

Herbaria: Collectively Saving Plant and Fungal Biodiversity
https://youtu.be/fYQzmrCokys

An interview with Thiers about the book she released last December:
Telling the Story of the Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants
https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/telling-the-story-of-the-quest-to-preserve-and-classify-the-worlds-plants/

And a December podcast with Thiers:
https://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/tag/Dr+Barbara+M+Thiers

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Thursday, May 20 at 6pm Eastern - A Journey Through June Garden with David 
Culp
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hHLTtrfaRwiw7peGg4fKQA

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Friday, May 21 at 9pm Eastern - Twenty Years of Conservation: Above and 
Below Ground at Kartchner Caverns State Park (AZNPS)
https://aznps.com/event/cochise-chapter-meeting-3/

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Tuesday, May 25 - 7:30pm - Gardening for Pollinators - MNPS Zoom
https://mdflora.org/event-4294522
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Thursday, June 17 -at 1pm Eastern -The Global Heritage of British Natural 
History
https://www.linnean.org/meetings-and-events/events/the-global-heritage-of-british-natural-history
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These Native Woodland Plants Deserve a Spot in Any Garden
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/native-flowering-plants-garde
n/2021/05/11/ccf55ae2-ac20-11eb-ab4c-986555a1c511_story.html

One of the plants Higgins mentions, Phacelia bipinnatifida, I have growing 
at my house, the result of a single small plant given to me by Jean 
Worthley 8 or so years ago. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oy43wTjSL7y9e6-naOM0M84XlNi4vZPx/view?usp=sharing 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GduTRy3SwVq8UhpjsZ0WN4YBgJ5SOIwQ/view?usp=sharing

"No woodland garden should be without a showy lavender-blue bloomer named 
the fernleaf phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida). The half-inch blooms are 
round and prolific, borne atop leafy stems. It is biennial; the first year 
it germinates, the second it grows beefy and blooms before setting seed 
and dying to start the cycle again. It may take three or four years for a 
colony to become robust, but once it does, you will be pulling young 
plants to control the show."