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Best field guides to use at home: Plants
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Best field guides to use at home: Plants

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Julia Black suggests guides for identifying plants….

29 May 2020

Books | Botany | Field Guides | Library

Online Talk: Cocwudu – ancient woodlands in Northumberland
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Online Talk: Cocwudu – ancient woodlands in Northumberland

Discover the forgotten evolution of a landscape as you take a tour of Northumberland’s ancient woodlands with Max Adams…

14 April 2020

Ancient Woodland | Botany | Friday Night Talks | History | Max Adams

Online Talk: Plants Behaving Badly
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Online Talk: Plants Behaving Badly

Join botanist, Chris Metherell, for a tour around some of the taxonomic terrors and sulky teenagers of the plant world…

20 March 2020

Botany | Ecology | Plants

A Botanical Success Story at Gosforth Nature Reserve
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A Botanical Success Story at Gosforth Nature Reserve

Last year, on a day marked by blissful weather and the song of woodland birds, NHSN volunteers planted 2000 native…

3 March 2020

Botany | Flora | Gosforth Nature Reserve | Wildflowers

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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Spring 2018 at Crowtrees Local NR
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Spring 2018 at Crowtrees Local NR

2018 has been an odd year.  An extended period of cold weather in the winter and early spring meant things…

3 September 2018

Botany | Crowtrees Local Nature Reserve

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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