Newtonmore Wildflowers

 In my (limited) experience, most lichen identification depends a lot on matching named photographs to what you have found.  This is how I s...

 When walking the dog on the lower section of Newtonmore Golf Course, I saw a blob of translucent whitish jelly, which looked just like the ...

I am still enjoying looking out for lichens and I am gradually getting more familiar with the names.  I have joined a FaceBook page called S...

 Even though it is almost December, there are still some plants flowering.  Some are annuals such as Groundsel, which are growing and flower...

The next lichen I wanted to try to ID is one that hangs off twigs like a pale green beard, with lots of thin wispy branches.  It originates ...

 You have probably noticed that most of the trees in Newtonmore have green growths on them - no, I don't mean leaves!-  but growths that...

Last weekend was the Scottish Botanists Conference, run by the BSBI   (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland). In previous years, I have ...