Join us in Welwyn at 8pm on Thursday 22 January for 'Wild Orchids of Hertfordshire' –  the 2026 Gerald Salisbury Memorial Lecture.

Co-county flora recorder Dr Ian Denholm will give a talk that he and Prof. Richard Bateman, a fellow orchid expert and enthusiast, have prepared. Together, they have half a century's experience surveying for orchids in Hertfordshire.

More than 50 HNHS members  attended a reception at North Hertfordshire Museum in Hitchin on 12 January to view our 'Wildlife for the Record' exhibition and round off the Society's 150th anniversary year.

We were delighted to welcome the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Nicholas Buxton, his wife Henrietta, and the Chair of North Hertfordshire District Council Cllr. Keith Hoskins as special guests. Mr Buxton who farms the Easnye estate near Ware, has made 'nurture through nature' the theme of his current year in office.

A Happy New Year to all our members and friends!

Hertfordshire Natural History Society held its first meeting in January 1875, which means that our 150th anniversary celebrations are sadly almost at an end.

Don't, however, miss the opportunity to visit our closing exhibition in North Hertfordshire Museum which runs until February 16th (Brand Street, Hitchin, SG5 1JE, not Mondays).