Share a pre-meeting bring-your-own supper: a flask of hot drink, cup and a small plate of ‘nibbles’. Then listen to our speakers — limit 10 minutes / person. For a gold-coin koha, or even ‘folding money’, buy one or more of the books we put on display, and help build up the Jubilee Award Fund which supports research on NZ plants. Room opens at 7 p.m.

Bring:

• your botanical slides and photographs taken on BotSoc trips. Slides on a USB stick – limit 20 / person;
• your favourite botanical readings, your paintings;
• any spare botanical or other natural-history books you have and don’t want any more to have them auctioned. Take them home if they don’t sell;
• plant specimens to sell or to discuss;
• botanical art – paintings, drawings, ceramics – to add to a memorable evening.