On Friday, May 13, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is delighted to host a talk by Vicky Tomlinson on plant folklore and foraging.

Vicky, a former solicitor, has a passion for identifying wild flowers and since retiring from the law has become a National Park walk leader and a volunteer and mentor for plant life.

For the past 15 months, Vicky has been volunteering one afternoon a week at Tenby Museum compiling a card index of the museum’s herbarium.

The comprehensive collection of over 1,200 pressed plant specimens was assembled by Frederick Walker in the mid to late 19th century.

One of the earliest specimens, a rare specimen or rocket collected from the walls of St. John’s College, Cambridge, is dated 1816.

Frederick Walker came from Devizes, where the family owned a silk throwing mill.

When he moved to Tenby, he added many Pembrokeshire specimens to his collection.

A keen amateur botanist and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, he was one of the founding trustees of Tenby Museum, and his herbarium was donated to the museum after his death in 1899.

What promises to be an interesting and well-researched illustrated talk will commence at 7 pm next Friday at the museum.

For further details, please contact the museum on (01834) 842809.