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Getting Started with Grasses: Alien Grasses
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Getting Started with Grasses: Alien Grasses

Discover the North East’s alien grasses and start identifying your own in the fifth instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….

24 June 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Getting Started with Grasses: Arable Grasses
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Getting Started with Grasses: Arable Grasses

Discover the North East’s common arable grasses and start identifying your own in the fourth instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….

17 June 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Getting Started with Grasses: Woodland Grasses
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Getting Started with Grasses: Woodland Grasses

Discover the common grass species associated with the North East’s woodlands and start identifying your own in the second instalment of a new series of blogs by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….

30 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Getting Started with Grasses: Meadows and Neutral Grassland
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Getting Started with Grasses: Meadows and Neutral Grassland

Discover the common grass species associated with neutral grassland and start identifying your own with NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common….

7 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Getting Started with Grasses: Waysides and Rough Ground
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Getting Started with Grasses: Waysides and Rough Ground

Discover the common and widespread grasses of North East England and start identifying your own in a new series of…

1 May 2025

Botany | Grass ID | Grasses | James Common

Five Ferns Thriving in City Walls
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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?…

6 June 2023

Botany | Ferns | James Common | Nature

Five Snowdrops to Spot this Season
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Five Snowdrops to Spot this Season

The sight of Snowdrops strewn across the woodland floor is one of the iconic sights of late winter, but did you know that there is more than one out there to be discovered?…

22 February 2023

James Common | Snowdrops | Spring | Wildflowers

Ladybird Field Skills: Cemetery Ladybirds
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Ladybird Field Skills: Cemetery Ladybirds

With the launch of a new course on North East ladybirds, NHSN members recently set off to explore those found…

1 February 2023

James Common | Jesmond | Ladybirds | North East Ladybird Spot

The Ladybirds of Gosforth Nature Reserve
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The Ladybirds of Gosforth Nature Reserve

Explore the diverse and beautiful ladybirds of Gosforth Nature Reserve in a new blog by NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common…

20 July 2022

Insects | James Common | Ladybirds

A short guide to the North East’s grassland ladybirds
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A short guide to the North East’s grassland ladybirds

In Spring and Summer, many ladybirds become much easier to spot across the North East. Can you find and record…

21 April 2022

James Common | Ladybirds | North East Ladybird Spot

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