Dumfriesshire Botany Group at River Nith, Closeburn, 6th September 2020
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On a fine sunny day following government guidelines six of us met from 4 households, with no car sharing allowed between households. Ranald using local knowledge had suggested where cars could be parked and we met by the water treatment …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Springkell, 16th June 2024
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Seven of the group met at Burnfoot with kind permission to survey the Springkell Estate grounds from Rachel Johnson-Ferguson. A route had been discussed with Rachel before the visit and we stuck to that route as closely as possible which …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Stenhouse Wood, 2nd May 2025
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Our first field meeting of the year saw eleven of the group meet on a warm day at Stenhouse Wood SSSI and SWT Reserve. The reserve is an ancient woodland notified as an SSSI as an upland mixed ash woodland …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Tarras Nature Reserve, Sunday 24 April 2022
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The first field meeting of 2022 took place on the southern end of the new Community owned Tarras Valley Nature Reserve. Unlike last years visit to the open moorland north of Middlemoss farm this visit was to an area where …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Tarras Reserve, 20th June 2025
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We have been visiting the community owned Tarras Nature Reserve annually to help establish a baseline of what botany exists. This year six of us met to continue this effort on what turned out to be the hottest day in …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Tarras Valley, 28th June 2024
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On a dry though largely overcast day seven of us met just south of Cooms Farm on the Tarras Reserve east of Langholm. We had checked the date with the reserve team and they had said that Langholm common ridings …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Tarras Water, 18th June 2023
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Seven of us met at the car park just north of Tarras Lodge on the northern section of the Tarras Nature Reserve. Langholm Initiative had been able to complete the purchase of this second part of the Langholm moors in …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Thornhill, 05/08/2018
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Given the very wet forecast for the previous Sunday we moved the meeting a week and had a very pleasant and dry day to botanise in and around Thornhill (NX8795). Thornhill is a smart small town with a long association …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Thornhill, 2nd August 2025
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Nine of us met at the centre of Thornhill on a pleasantly warm dry day. Not everyone was able to stay all day but we had this number up to lunchtime with a smaller number until the finish at about …
Dumfriesshire Botany Group at Upper Kello Water, 13th August 2023
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During the rather wet August we were lucky to get a breezy day with no rain in Upper Nithsdale. The visit was to a largely unrecorded area of the upper Kello Water north west of Kirkconnel. The Kellow Water is …
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