The Botany Group visited Greatham Creek today, a Local Nature Reserve close to Teesmouth National Nature Reserve in an area of high...

With summer coming to a close and Autumn waiting to begin, we were lucky to be greeted with blue skies and 25 degrees heat, it was a...

I go to Rainton Meadows a good bit, well certainly before lockdown, and I popped over there this week. To be honest I go either for a...

Unlike many of you I seem to do much of my botany, not on desolate moors or in ancient woodland but in more exotic places. One place I...

Straight from the car park we were all raring to get going, we identified 86 plant varieties today, some of which hadn't been recorded in...

Back in the woods today but this time in Felledge Wood along the South Burn at Waldridge. Footpath above the wood This is a very damp...

Today was my first outing with the botany club and everyone’s first group trip of the year since Covid19. It was lovely to meet everybody...

My wanderings this week showed how quickly spring rushes through. Last week the Blackthorn was just starting to flower, now the hedgerows...

With the wind dying down it was time for a walk in the woods. I'm lucky as the woodland around here contains wonderful displays of the...

Waldridge today, despite the warm weather there was not a great deal in flower, but it is still March I suppose. The Cherry Plum is in...

Many years ago, while hiking in Hamsterley Forest, I used to see strange pink and orange blobs on the dead conifer stumps, and wonder...

The Blog has been rather quiet of late but with the amount of daylight fading and lockdown on us again I thought I’d do some entries of...

As summer draws inevitably to an end, and autumn creeps ever closer, my thoughts turn from flowers to fungi. It's an exciting time, you...

As a contribution to the Botany Group Yellow Asteraceae project I took my recording sheet down to the old Cosyfoam works at Lambton Lane,...

From time to time over the last few years I’ve cycled a route which takes me onto Long Edge, a minor road near Burnhope. I pass two...

There's been a lot of great photos of orchids on our Facebook pages but I realise not everybody has access to this so I thought I would...

Emma Smith sent the following on our sister Facebook page. Found these wild strawberries in Bollihope (Washpool) Quarry yesterday whilst...

Still thrashing about my patch of Waldridge Fell looking for nice plants and the hard work has paid off again with a new species for...

The reserve is open and in order to support social distancing you have to walk one way around the main lake. No access to hides or other...

Delightful weather and so good to be back on this extensive reserve. I didn’t walk far, and didn’t need to either, before finding lots of...