Newtonmore Wildflowers

If you are not interested in lichens, then this is not the post for you!  During the spell of hot weather when family were visiting, we went...

My second find this week was very serendipitous. I was planning to walk the dog in a particular spot but someone else was parked there, so I...

In the last few days I have found flowers locally that I don't see very often,  The first one was Common Fumitory ( Fumaria officinalis ...

 You could be forgiven for thinking I was obsessed with stickiness from my last few posts, but yet another sticky plant seemed worth writing...

 I benefit from having botanical spies around the area... Geoff who runs Balsporran Cottages B&B just by the A9, south of Dalwhinnie, go...

 I have been doing some weeding in my flower border as two plants are spreading and taking over.  They are both in the bedstraw family, so t...

Twice a year I survey a few plots for the NPMS ( National Plant Monitoring Scheme ). All my plots are in the 1 km x 1 km square which has th...