Sun 2 March 2025
Anne and Dennis Kell
Maldon offers a range of habitats from urban to coastal and should yield a cross-section of overwintering and early spring flowers. Details of starting point, parking etc to be…
Sun 30 March 2025
Stephen Clarkson
Meet at 10:30 in the car park for Weeting Heath Nature Reserve, Norfolk, IP27 0QF; Grid Ref: TL757881. A donation for parking would be welcomed by the warden. The area we will…
Tue 29 April 2025
Jillian Macready
Meet at 10:30 in Bury St Edmunds, inside the Abbey Gardens, at the Iron Bridge over the River Lark. The nearest town centre car park is Ram Meadow, Cotton Street, IP33 1XT. It is…
Thu 1 May 2025
John Martin
Meet at 10:30, park at Grid Ref: SJ55723627; what3words: ///means.faced.alternate. This is on a side road just off the A49. Prees Heath lies between the A49 and A41 roads to the…
Tue 13 - Fri 16 May 2025
Anne Haden, Alli Singleton, Lyn Jones
A four-day meeting is planned on a “Come-and-Find” basis to explore some of the plants to be found on Jersey. We will be based in the village of St. Aubin. Tuesday 13th May:…
Sat 17 May 2025
John Wakely
Meet at 10:30 at the Maulden Wood car park, Maulden Wood which is accessed via Deadman’s Lay-by off the A6, MK45 2AP; Grid Ref: TL07253942; what3words:…
Sat 17 May 2025
Jackie Hardy
This will be a joint meeting with North Worcestershire Flora Group and the Wild Flower Society. Meet at 10.30 at the Tiddesley Wood Car Park. Tiddesley Wood, Worcestershire…
Thu 29 May 2025
Moira Smith and Moira O’Donnell
A Come and Find Meeting Meet at 10.30 in the free public car park, CR3 5QS; Grid Ref: TQ316567; what3words: ///lame.dairy.hint, at the end of Fox Lane (through the height…
Wed 4 June 2025
Roger Heath-Brown
Meet at 10:30 at the Wheel Orchard car park in Goring, Grid Ref:SU599806; what3words: ///recount.coil.digit. Hartslock is a BBOWT downland reserve with spectac ular views over…
Fri 6 June 2025
Heather Silk
This is a repeat of the Field Meeting offered in 2024 which had to be cancelled due to bad weather and hence a slippery chalk slope. Heather has now realised that there is a path…
Thu 12 June 2025
Steve Porter
Meet at 10:30 in the car park at Chatsworth House, DE45 1PP; what3words: ///unicorns.questions.rests. The kiosk will be aware of our visit. Details of bus and train travel are…
Sat 14 June 2025
Dave Shaw and Julie Clarke
Meet at 10:00 in the visitor car park at Gait Barrows, LA5 0JF. Entrance to car park: Grid Ref: SD47837763; what3words: ///divers.snaps.jetted. Voluntary car parking charges can…
Fri 20 June 2025
Howard Hardy and Pauline Wilson
Meet at 10:30 at the car park, Grid Ref: ST937710; what3words: ///sunk.casino.gentle is at the lock site near Pewsham. Access is from the lane that leads to Chippenham Farm Sales…
Fri 20 - Sun 22 June 2025
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Lyn Jones
This three-day meeting covers a range of sites in Fife and Angus and can be booked as a whole, or as separate days. During the first two days we will explore two coastal areas of…
Sat 21 June 2025
Marion Chappell
Meet at 10:30 in the Rufford Station Car Park, Rufford, L40 1TB; Grid Ref: SD46731565; what3words: ///refuse.recitals.grudging. This will be a walk of about 3 miles to look…
Mon 23 June 2025
Kathy Meakin and Pauline Wilson
Meet at 10:00 at the Stinchcombe Hill Golf Club car park, GL11 6AQ. More details will be provided later. Facilities available in Club House. This is a meeting with a difference.…
Tue 24 - Wed 25 June 2025
Audrey Turner
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June: Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey Leader: Audrey Turner Details of meeting times and places will be provided later. Tuesday 24th June: Aviemore…
Sat 28 - Sun 29 June 2025
Nick Aston
This meeting will partly cover some of the same locations visited in last year’s New Forest meeting. Priority will be given to members who were not able to attend last year’s…
Tue 1 - Sat 5 July 2025
Lyn Jones
This will be a rather different WFS meeting where we will hope to experience the best of the alpine flowers and glorious scenery for which the Engadine, in SE Switzerland is…
Sat 12 July 2025
Sheila Wynn
Meet for a 10:30 start at the Crosby Leisure Centre, Mariner Road, Crosby, L23 6SX; Grid Ref: SJ307989; what3words: ///weds.camp.seated. Parking at the Leisure Centre is free.…
Sat 12 July 2025
Gareth Bursnall and Priscilla Nobbs
Meet at 10:30 at the Holywell Tea Chalet, King Edward’s Parade, Eastbourne BN20 7XB. This in the Meads area of the town on the lower promenade at the foot of Beachy Head.…
Mon 14 - Tue 15 July 2025
Chris Metherell and James Common
Details of meeting place and time of meeting will be given to people attending nearer the time. Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England, only accessible…
Sat 19 July 2025
Wendy English and Tanya Eyre
Meet at 10.30 in Jugger Howe layby. Parking is free. Latest finish will be 3.30 pm. Postcode: YO22 4QH; Grid Ref: NZ945002; what3words: ///mondays.wimp.rashers. Driving north from…
Thu 24 July 2025
Jane Lowe
Meet at 10:30 at the Moat Pond Car Park, GU8 6LW; Grid Ref: SU899416; what3words: ///final.whisk.slides Thursley NNR is one of Surrey’s largest fragments of heathland, with bog,…
Sat 2 August 2025
Martin Godfrey
Meet at 10:00 at the car park at the end of Wootton Drive. This is just off the A5013, Eccleshall Road, off Junction 14 on the M6, at ST16 1PU; what3words: ///voted.goods.advice.…
Sat 2 August 2025
Owen Fawcett and Sheila Wynn
Meet at 10.30 at the Lowry Statue, next to the Knott End Slipway at the end of Bourne May Road. Grid Ref: SD346485. Parking is free in the adjacent Quail Holme Road Car Park,…
Sat 16 - Sun 17 August 2025
Delyth Williams and Wenday McCarthy
Saturday 16th August: Great Orme, Llandudno Leader: Wendy McCarthy Meet at 10:30 at the summit car park, Bishop’s Quarry Road, LL30 2QR. There is a charge for the car park.…
Sat 23 August 2025
Geoffrey Hall
Meet at 10:30 at the Common at the junction of the A205 South Circular Road and Circular Way, SE18 4HR; Grid Ref: TQ431776. Woolwich Common has Sickle Medick Medicago sativa ssp.…
Thu 28 August 2025
Alan Leslie
Meet at 9:30 by the building at the bus stop at the Madingley Road Park and Ride site on the west side of Cambridge, CB3 0EX; Grid Ref: TL425594. We will be heading for sites on…
Sat 30 August 2025
Peter Gateley and Sheila Wynn
Meet at 10:30 at Maghull Station Car Park, Station Road, Maghull, L31 3DE; Grid Ref: SD383015; what3words: ///boast.attend.taker. The station CP is officially for rail users, but…
Sat 6 - Sun 7 September 2025
The indoor meetings will be held at West Monkton Village Hall, Monkton Heathfield, Somerset, TA2 8NE.In a change to previous years, no buffet lunch will be provided and members…
Sat 13 September 2025
Marion Rider
Meet at 10:30 at the Staple Hill car park, GU24 8TU; Grid Ref: SU974648; what3words: ///impose.search.keys. A late season meeting, as we specifically hope to see the rare Marsh…
Sat 20 - Sun 21 September 2025
Steve Little, Libby Houston and Peter Hilton
Saturday 20th September: Cheltenham Leader: Steve Little Meet at 10:30 at Cheltenham railway station. The aim of this meeting is to look at the flora of the disused Honeybourne…
Sat 25 October 2025
Sheila Wynn and Julie Clarke
Meet at 10.30 in the parking area outside Shoreside Primary School on Westminster Drive, Ainsdale, PR8 2SB; Grid Ref: SD30691188; what3words: ///unfounded.forced.clouding. It is a…
Sun 26 October 2025
Anne and Dennis Kell
We will revisit the area covered in the Spring Hunt and explore the urban and coastal habitats to see what is still flowering at this late season. Details of starting point,…