Same tree, two weeks apart #thicktrunktuesday #frozen

The Michael, an ancient oak in Dalkeith Park. Please vote for this tree now @WoodlandTrust #TreeoftheYear #thicktrunktuesday #veterantrees

Grass of Parnassus a bit of the Mediterranean in grey, damp Scotland #wildflowerhour

Sweet chestnut #thicktrunktuesday

Beeches #thicktrunktuesday

Wet beech #thicktrunktuesday

Sea kale Crambe maritima Fife Coast #wildflowerhour

Sat morning, end of Scottish school hols, Edinburgh Fest, reduced timetable ONLY two carriages, dangerously overcrowded train and passengers refused boarding and still five stops to go… @ScotRail you can do better than this!

Well worth a visit #Fungi exhibition ⁦@TheBotanics⁩ ⁦@RBGECreative⁩ ⁦@PostcodeLottery⁩

Elfin saddle #shrooms #fungi

With ⁦@midgov⁩ new mowing regime there is room for #wildflowers and #football! #rewilding #urbanspace Thankyou!

Save the Brownfields! With our arable loosing biodiversity year on year, as it is sprayed, fertilized and sown to death and more and more species turning up on neglected wasteland, where should we build and where will our new nature reserves be? #brownfield #ecology #conservation

Yellow birds-nest a red letter find! On brownfield colliery site @collieryspoil @bigmeadowsearch @milneorchid #brownfield #rareplants

Two years ago we clear-felled two acres of Sitka spruce. Regeneration has been dramatic.

Hollow alder for #thicktrunktuesday

Bistort Persicaria amphibia

Five beauties from Longniddry Bents - clustered bellflower, Lady’s bedstraw, wild thyme, creeping cinquefoil and centuary #wildflowerhour #tinyplants

Mrs (or Mrs) Tiggiwinkle #wildlife

Quaking Grass #wildflowerhour #grasses

Rose petal snowstorm in the hen pen