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10 Wildflowers to Look For in Garden Walls
Take a closer look at ten of the fascinating wildflowers you could find on garden walls across Gosforth’s Wild Web….
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NHSN Field Skills – Botany at Warkworth
Recently, young naturalists on NHSN’s Field Skills Programme, supported by the John Spedan Lewis Foundation, set out to explore the plant life of Warkworth on the Northumberland coast. Hear how they got on with participant, Ellie Davison….
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Looking Back at the 2023 British and Irish Botanical Conference
NHSN Student Naturalist, Aimee Shovlar, shares her experience at the annual BSBI conference, held in Newcastle for the first time in December…
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The Brownfield Sites of Britain: where weeds become wildflowers
In a new blog, Kearti Mondair summarises a recent botanical field trip carried out as part of NHSN’s ‘200 Plants‘…
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Getting Started with Trees: Five to Spot this Summer
Explore some of the region’s beautiful trees this summer, starting with five common tree species. Sessile Oak © Hans Dekker…
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Five Ferns Thriving in City Walls
The sight of ferns gracing our garden walls provides a reminder of the tenacity of nature but did you know there are more than one out their to be discovered?…
Botany | Ferns | James Common | Nature
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Five Orchids to Discover
The recent warm weather has brought out many orchids, find out five species you can encounter this spring and summer….
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Book Review: The Curious World of Seaweed by Josie Iselin
ISBN 978-1-59714-482-7 I enjoy reading books about an easy overlooked aspect of natural history, and seaweed definitely falls into this…
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Teesdale’s Special Flora: Places, Plants and People
Margaret Bradshaw is an experienced botanist, who spent most of her life working on the conservation of Teesdale’s flora. She…
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