Newtonmore Wildflowers

There are some flowers that appear late in the season and let you know that autumn is almost here - Devils-bit Scabious, Harebells and Sneez...

The beautiful sunny weather last weekend was ideal for some botany activities I had planned. On the Saturday, I took a group of people from ...

 If you travel between Newtonmore and Kingussie (a distance of about 3 miles) you can either go by car along the A86 or use the bike path wh...

Just like buses, nothing new for a while and then two at once! I was tidying up the greenhouse, removing some tomato and cucumber leaves tha...

 Whilst doing some gardening on a sunny day recently, a butterfly alighted on one of my Shasta daisies and was different from any I had seen...

 On the same walk around Loch Imrich, I came across a lot of unfamiliar cones on the ground.  Well, to be more exact, half cones. Half a lar...

 Rather strange islands have been rising from the depths of Loch Imrich. Large black lumps.... It looks as if as if part of the loch bed has...