Newtonmore Wildflowers

The banks of Loch Imrich are a sea of yellow at the moment.  Most of the plants are Yellow Loosestrife ( Lysimachia vulgaris ) and there is ...

A walk up Glen Banchor will show you an interesting collection of flowers at the moment.  As you go over the first cattle grid, before the c...

You would think the names were made up but they are the common names for Lapsana communis, Nipplewort,  and Mycelis muralis , Wall Lettuce....

Or should that be a Platanthera of orchids?  (Sorry, couldn't resist a botanical joke as Greater Butterfly-orchids are   Platanthera chl...

In a previous post, I mentioned that a thrush had nested on our ladder - well I was wrong, it turned out to be a blackbird after all!  All t...

 A  surprise visitor came to my garden yesterday -  a whirring blur of something grey and orange hovering in front of a flower.  It came bac...

At the moment, there is a striking orange flower blooming. This is Fox-and-cubs ( Pilosella aurantica ). It has a basal clump of hairy leave...