Botanising in Huntingdonshire, Yorkshire and Beyond

I am the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) Vice-County Recorder for Huntingdonshire (VC31) and Mid-West Yorkshire (VC64). I've set-up this botany blog to more readily share news on recent wildflower discoveries made by myself and others, to encourage wider recording, and as a way to challenge myself to take more photographs of the plants I find. See the BSBI website for more information on the work of the society and the diverse range of botany projects currently in progress.

Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Henbane - Refound in VC64

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So this was exciting. The first record of Henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger ) for VC64 for over 50 years, and only the forth record. It is a specie...
Monday, 15 August 2022

Drawdown

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The silver lining to this year's prolonged dry spell is that it is a great year for looking at the flora of the drawdown zone around Ske...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Knapweed Novelties

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Shortly after completion of construction of the A1(M) east of Leeds in 1999, the verges and road junctions in the vicinity of Aberford and H...
Tuesday, 19 April 2022

September Highlights

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A few odds and ends in a post I never got round to finishing last year. Starting with these two unexpected finds by the stables at Royds Gre...

Arum 'Chameleon'

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My serious plant hunting got off to a good start this weekend with this stunning Lords-and-Ladies cultivar emerging from a hedge in Ben Rhyd...
Sunday, 5 September 2021

Greater Musk-mallow

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It was great to find Greater Musk-mallow ( Malva alcea ) again yesterday, still clinging on in the road verge at Newton (VC64) where I first...
Thursday, 26 August 2021

Where there's muck,

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there's goosefoots. Perhaps a bit harsh, but there is a fair chance of finding something interesting if you poke around the fringes of a...
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