Notes from a Lockdown Naturalist ›
Lockdown Botany in the Garden
For botanist and gardener, Jane Wrigley, lockdown provided an opportunity to more closely inspect the wild plantlife of her Fallowfield garden….
Botany
Botany ›
The umbellifer plants – family Apiaceae
Local botanist, Mark Welfare, introduces umbellifer species to look for on your North East walks…
Botany | Plants | Wildflowers
Gosforth Nature Reserve ›
Your Sightings from Gosforth Nature Reserve
From rare raptors to diminutive orchids, gain inspiration for your next visit with a summary of your sightings from Gosforth Nature Reserve…
Badger | Botany | Coralroot Orchid | Gosforth | Hobby | Kingfisher | Nature | Newcastle | Roe Deer | Wildlife Sightings
Archive & Library ›
Celebrating Nature Journaling Week: Plants
For today’s theme, we’re featuring botanical illustrations as inspiration for your journal notes and sketches…
Archive & Library ›
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….
Books | Botany | Field Guides | Library
Botany ›
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…
Ancient Woodland | Botany | Friday Night Talks | History | Max Adams
Botany ›
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…
Gosforth Nature Reserve ›
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…
Botany ›
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…
Botany | BSBI | Lindisfarne | Nature | New Year Plant Hunt
Botany ›
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…