The trick is probably engaging the interest of the teachers! And there always have been a good number of these in the alpine groups, so there is a good link there. What would be even nicer would be to stimulate ongoing interest from students later in their studies, because plants are hardly of little relevance in all sorts of ways. We have contacted various schools and colleges (and also University Departments) re. the talk from David Gwynne-Evans that we have arranged in June. It will be very interesting to see if this bears fruit (I hope so because we would like to have a good audience for his talk - and it is highly relevant in a world where the environment and conservation of plants gets strong billing). It's always really nice when people visit our garden with their children, and equally so at the Alpine Shows, because a few of us actually became fascinated by these plants at an early age and these will be the people who take the societies on now too.
