Newtonmore Wildflowers

 More on the mystery parcel... it is part of a research project  to investigate halophytes.  Halophytes are plants that can cope with salt s...

Frog spawn has appeared in my pond this week. The first batch  arrived on the night of Friday 15th March. Last year (2023) it was 20th March...

 I mentioned in my last post that I had plans to investigate a sheet of black plastic that I had acquired while helping friends move house. ...

 It has been a long time since my last post - partly because I have been busy and also because there are not many wildflowers out at this ti...

 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 ...