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RHS London Orchid Show & RHS Botanical Art Show RHS Botanical Art Show Lindley Hall London SW3 20th -21st March 2010 10am - 5pm The RHS London Orchid Show will take place in the Lawrence Hall at the same time as the RHS Botanical Art Show in the Lindley Hall BSBA member, Penelope Fleming, is exhibiting her latest botanical illustrations of plant galls, in graphite, in the RHS exhibition to be judged for RHS medals. Penelope writes that her interest in plant galls began whilst observing a grazing giraffe! 'On a trip to Africa in 2008, I witnessed what I believed to be symbiosis between plant and animal. Grazing giraffe eating leaves from Acacia dreparalobium (The Whistling Thorn) were moved to the next bush, I was to learn later, because aggressive ants living within gall-like structures on these bushes would swarm to bite or squirt formic acid at the giraffe (or indeed any other creature that threatened their home). This action I was assured didn’t hurt the animal, rather it irritated them, but the effect was ultimately one of protection for both themselves and their habitat. Knowing little of plant galls at that time, it started me thinking about the types we might have here in Britain - and so began my quest.'* R.H.S.Botanical Art Exhibition Malvern Spring Gardening Show The Malvern Showground Worcestershire WR13 6NW May 6th - 9th 2010 BSBA member, Christine Battle, is exhibiting eight paintings inspired by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton's book 'New Trees: Recent Introductions to Cultivation' in the exhibition to be judged for RHS medals. * BSBA Annual Exhibition The Bath Library The Podium Bath Somerset Tuesday 6th July - Saturday 17th July 2010 * BSBA Exhibition West Barn (Adjacent to the Tithe Barn) Bradford on Avon Wiltshire Friday 29th May - Sunday 31st May 2011 |