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Another Heaton New Year Plant Hunt
It’s New Year Plant Hunt time again – that time of year when citizen scientists across the country head outdoors to see which wild plants…
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Galanthus woronowii
Galanthus woronowii occurs in north-eastern Turkey and across the Caucasus region, extending into parts of Georgia and southern Russia.
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Galanthus elwesii
Galanthus elwesii occurs in southeastern Europe, around the Black Sea, and across much of Turkey. It was first described in 1875 by Sir Joseph Dalton…
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Growing Ferns from Spores – Part 1
Part one of a new series on this blog documenting the process of growing Ferns from Spores – I promise, it is easier than it…
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Waxcaps and Other Grassland Fungi on Hadrian’s Wall
I won’t pretend to know the slightest thing about fungi. As a botanist, I find I can only retain a small amount of non-plant-related information…
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Ancient Woodland Indicators in Northumberland
The current list of ancient woodland indicator species for Northumberland, which includes flowering plants, grasses, and ferns that are used locally to identify this special…
Current Fascinations
By my own admission, I am prone to falling down rabbit holes from time to time. Typically, this involves deep-diving into a particular subject and learning as much as possible before, inevitably, another topic comes along to take its place. Regardless, below you’ll find my current areas of interest…
Botanical Bits
Botany is a major passion of mine, and whether it’s ferns, snowdrops, grasses, ancient woodland plants, or even humble pavement weeds, I spend much of my spare time seeking out and learning about our remarkable wild flora.
North East Botany
Here you’ll find musings on plant identification, trip reports, sightings from walks and courses and just about anything else relating to botany in North East England.
Coming Soon: An Urban Flora of Newcastle
For the last few years, I’ve been working on what I hope will soon become the first ‘urban flora’ covering Newcastle and North Tyneside. With surveying complete, and writing well underway, the finished book should come to fruitition very soon. Until then, a few updates can be found below.
Meet James
Born and raised in North East England, James is a botanist, general naturalist and biological recorder with a passion for sharing the joys of North East nature with others.
He currently works as Senior Naturalist for the Natural History Society of Northumbria (NHSN) and volunteers as a vice-county recorder for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), both of which allow him to spend ample time outdoors leading trips, courses, surveys and guided walks.
Contact
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