Newtonmore Wildflowers

 New Year's Day was clear and frosty so I went for a walk on the Wildcat Trail along the Spey - mainly just for the walk, but I thought ...

 In the absence of plants flowering, I have been investigating lichens and fungi.  However, the BSBI have a New Year Plant Hunt which runs f...

I spent some of October down in West London, visiting family.  It was shirtsleeve weather down there, but is much colder up here now and we ...

 Over a week ago, we had several days of continuous rain (while the South of England had a heat wave!) which resulted in the Spey flooding t...

 In a post a couple of years ago I mentioned that I survey plots for a scheme called  the NPMS (the National Plant Monitoring Scheme).  You ...

Last week I joined some other keen botanists and went to Loch Vaa to look for some specific plants that are not found much locally. Ian Gree...

Dry stone walls are a great place to look for lichens.  Usually, I pick one that is on the moor but whilst waiting in Kingussie, I looked at...