ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020
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Sunday 28 June 2020 at 6p.m.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the Management Committee has agreed that for this year's AGM only votes cast using the online voting form will be counted, and there will be no provision during the meeting to vote. All members are welcome at the meeting but only those who joined more than six months before the AGM are eligible to vote.
We hope all members will wish to watch and listen to the meeting and there will also be the opportunity to ask the management committee questions. Zoom is very easy to use so long as you have a computer or other device with an internet connection and a speaker.
Please register your request to join in the meeting (and vote if you wish) here. Details of how to join the meeting will be sent to all members who register that they wish to participate.
If you would like help or a practice with Zoom then David Mason has kindly agreed to lend assistance and he will send a basic guide to members on request. David can be contacted at davidmason@fastmail.co.uk
We hope all members will wish to watch and listen to the meeting and there will also be the opportunity to ask the management committee questions. Zoom is very easy to use so long as you have a computer or other device with an internet connection and a speaker.
Please register your request to join in the meeting (and vote if you wish) here. Details of how to join the meeting will be sent to all members who register that they wish to participate.
If you would like help or a practice with Zoom then David Mason has kindly agreed to lend assistance and he will send a basic guide to members on request. David can be contacted at davidmason@fastmail.co.uk
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One of the agenda items is to elect a new member of the management committee. Joey Clover is standing for election. Originally from Yorkshire, Joey worked in the textile and fashion world for many years. She has experimented with growing tropical and Mediterranean plants in her London garden and is involved with the National Garden Scheme. She heads for the countryside as often as she can. |
Maddy Hughes has arranged for the guest speaker (who was going to speak during the Yorkshire summer garden tour), to give a virtual talk after the formal part of the AGM meeting.
Alastair Fitter is the emeritus professor of ecology at the University of York, where he worked on the ecology of plant roots and their fungal symbioses and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. His talk entitled “When will it flower? Plants and climate change”
will look at phenology - the timing of biological events - which is one of the first things affected by a warming climate.
The unusually early appearance of spring flowers is commonplace now, but the impact of climate change on flowering time is both more dramatic and more complex than is often realised. Alastair will examine what determines flowering time in a range of plant species and what the implications of this and future change might be. It promises to be a very interesting talk and insight into our changing world.
Alastair Fitter is the emeritus professor of ecology at the University of York, where he worked on the ecology of plant roots and their fungal symbioses and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. His talk entitled “When will it flower? Plants and climate change”
will look at phenology - the timing of biological events - which is one of the first things affected by a warming climate.
The unusually early appearance of spring flowers is commonplace now, but the impact of climate change on flowering time is both more dramatic and more complex than is often realised. Alastair will examine what determines flowering time in a range of plant species and what the implications of this and future change might be. It promises to be a very interesting talk and insight into our changing world.