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The North East New Year Plant Hunt-Off – The Results
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The North East New Year Plant Hunt-Off – The Results

The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland’s (BSBI) New Year Plant Hunt is an annual event in which botanists, expert and amateur…

7 January 2020

Botany | BSBI | Lindisfarne | Nature | New Year Plant Hunt

On 20 years of NHSN’s Mid-Week Botany Group
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On 20 years of NHSN’s Mid-Week Botany Group

The Midweek Botany Group started twenty years ago in 1998 when we (Janet Angel and Chris Irvine) had been going on the botany…

8 October 2018

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August is a purple month
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August is a purple month

As we crest the hill of high summer and look down the slope towards autumn changes are occurring daily. This…

10 August 2018

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