Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Balloch Wood, 20th May 2023
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The Balloch Wood Community Project is a charity which was set up in 2016 to manage this woodland for the benefit of the local community. A 25-year management agreement with the Forestry Commission was put together at that time and …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Barlocco Bay, 3rd August 2024
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Nine of us assembled for the 10-minute walk down to the bay – which took us the best part of two and a half hours! No wonder, as we passed through semi-natural woodland and semi-improved grassland before reaching the spoil …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Brighouse Bay, 17th May 2024
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Those of us who arrived a little early took the opportunity first to check out the Perennial Flax Linum perenne in the dunes at the back of the beach. We had feared that it might not be in flower yet, …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Carlingwark Loch, 17th June 2023
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Those who arrived early were tempted to wander along the loch shore from the car park and were delighted to see abundant flowering Cowbane Cicuta virosa amongst the Reed Sweet-grass Glyceria maxima in the marginal vegetation. When everyone had arrived, …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Castle Douglas, 2nd January 2023
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There was frost still on the ground when a group of seven of us met by Carlingwark Loch in Castle Douglas. However it turned into a beautiful sunny morning and we felt extremely fortunate, as all the previous days had …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Clints of Dromore, Cairnsmore NNR, 31st/08/2018
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This was a lovely warm sunny day for 7 of us to explore a crag section on the edge of the Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve, a site last visited some 20 years ago. The first section along the …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Criffel – 24th September 2022
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Wow, I did wonder if I would make it to the top. And I did, accompanied by Mair and Jan. Worth it though, and hopefully so did the other 40 or so people we met on route, some of whom …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Dunmuck, 24th May 2025
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We visited Dunmuck by kind invitation of Laura and Alan Jones. It is a 90 acre farm on the western slopes of Criffel which their family have owned for over 50 years. There is grassland, two lochans, young broadleaved and …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Glen Isle, 23rd September 2023
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A group of eight of us met at Palnackie and then drove down the private track to the shore with the kind permission of the landowners. It was a beautiful sunny day and the views across the firth to Kippford, …
Kirkcudbrightshire Botany Group at Glentrool, 29/03/2018
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The first visit of the season, hoping for Wilson’s Filmy Fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii before the explosion of vegetation made it difficult to find this tiny fern. To aid us, the weather has been un-spring like for weeks now and is …
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