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New Year Plant Hunt

Will you join the New Year Plant Hunt?
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Will you join the New Year Plant Hunt?

Local botanist, Fiona Greenwold, shares five winter wildflowers to look for as part of this year’s BSBI New Year Plant Hunt….

17 December 2021

New Year Plant Hunt

Discover Winter Wildflowers
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Discover Winter Wildflowers

Ahead of the New Year Plant Hunt 2021, Charlotte Rankin shares ten wildflowers to look out for this winter in the North East….

21 December 2020

Botany | New Year Plant Hunt | Wildflowers

Worlds Collide on a Newcastle street
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Worlds Collide on a Newcastle street

Ahead of the New Year Plant Hunt 2021, naturalist, James Common shares some of the non-native species encountered on a Newcastle street….

16 December 2020

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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

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