The speaker for this meeting was Alex Summers. who gave a talk on “The Richtersveld – collecting in an arid biodiversity hotspot”. Alex was until recently the curator of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now working in a National Trust garden. The NBGW has a large section devoted to plants from regions with a Mediterranean climate, including a collection of South African bulbs.

After the lunch-break we enjoyed two short talks on Eucomis by Tom Radford and on Massonia by Paul Cumbleton.

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