Jim Paine, Walnut Tree Garden Nursery

How do plants tell the time? How and why do they communicate with each other? Did you know that some plants can generate enough heat to melt snow, whilst others nourish their young?

Jim Paine of the well-known Walnut Tree Garden Nursery will tell us about these and other fascinating secrets about the life of the plants in our gardens and in the countryside around us. Jim and Clare previously worked at the IUCN - UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre on Huntingdon Road, until moving to Norfolk to establish the Walnut Tree Garden Nursery in 1998.  The Nursery is a specialist nursery that propagates and sells a large variety of hardy garden plants, from well-loved classics, through to more unusual species and varieties, but as of Summer 2023 the nursery will  close as both partners work towards retiring. Jim will continue to give talks, and indulge his plant propagation addiction.

TABLE COMPETITiON - A flowering pot plant