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Garden talk: Ornamental plants: future invaders?
Join passionate gardener Tomos Jones, a NERC SCENARIO PhD student at the University of Reading. Before starting his PhD, he worked at Treborth Botanic garden in Wales.
Our gardens are home to 17,000 plant species introduced from all over the world. A small number of these ornamental plants have become invasive, having a detrimental impact on native biodiversity. Climate change could provide opportunities for more plants to become a problem. The challenge is knowing which plants might become our future invaders.
Join passionate gardener Tomos Jones, a NERC SCENARIO PhD student at the University of Reading. Before starting his PhD, he worked at Treborth Botanic garden in Wales. Tomos also completed a British Council internship at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Yunnan, China, where he focused on in situ orchid conservation.
Gardeners are crucial to Tomos' approach to this challenge; the talk will discuss how gardeners can help and how we can understand the impact of climate change on invasive plants from our gardens.
Credit picture: Valerie Bennett
PLEASE NOTE: Due to high demand for our restaurants, express dinner before (three-course set menu at 5:30 pm) or dinner after the event usually needs to be reserved in advance. If you would like to book a table, please email [email protected]