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Conserving Scotland's biodiversity

Plantlife Scotland is delighted to be supporting High Heels and Horse Hair and their TRANSPLANTED project. Plants and fungi are...

Bogs – the Cinderella of the natural world. Bogs really do have bad press; they bring up connotations of wasteland, emptiness, squelchy...

As summer moves towards autumn, and grassland flowers fade, a second show of colour can be provided by fungi. Among the most colourful...

A Scottish bog in summer can be a haven of calm, as imagined by David Ward in his post for this blog. All too often, however, a still day...

All over Scotland our native plants are having a riotous time this summer. The long spring and summer mean that blooms have been...

Scotland has many different orchids from the tiny green Bog Orchid to the Impressive Broad-leaved Helleborine. Particularly along the...

I too have encountered lichens on the hills of Glen Affric. The photograph above shows Ophioparma ventosa, a lichen that I found there...