Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2025! We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course Identiplant & courses from external providers), for Plant Study & Research. Our Grants page also lists other grants that we think might be of interest to botanists: bsbi.org/grants

Thanks to all my plant friends, old and new, for making time at the #BIBConf25 so much fun! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicountries.bsky.social

British & Irish Botanical Conference 2025 organised by the BSBI: Edge Hill University, November 29 2025 Fantastic time at #BIBConf25, catching up in person with BSBI friends, making new botany friends, hearing from early career people, listing to interesting talks and debates, ... 150% BSBI fun…

Botanical training offered in 2026 In 2026 I am offering an even greater range of opportunities to skyrocket your botanical skills: Plant and Habitat Identification Skills short course at Teesside University: Three-day Course / 24th-26th June 2026. Sharpen your botanical expertise with our CPD…

Am I allowed a bit more shameless self-publicity? Available for pre-order! 💚 @pelagic.bsky.social pelagicpublishing.com/products/the...

Looking for a botanical webinar to brighten up a dark winter evening? We've got loads of them! 25th November - 10 years of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme 2nd December - Clubmosses of Ireland and Britain 9th December - Plant ID apps: how useful are they? Book here: bsbi.org/take-part/pr...

20 years on from the first #GBRedList for vascular plants - what's changed? 285 taxa have become more threatened. Critically Endangered up from 35 to 55 taxa, Endangered up from 90 to 117 taxa, Vulnerable up from 220 to 261 taxa 😱☠️ Action needed now! Well done @bsbibotany.bsky.social and partners

😍 Hang on a minute... is this Japanese Anemone (Anemone × ⁠hybrida Paxton) growing on top of the wall? 🙋 Is it not a sterile hybrid? 🤔how did it make it up there over 2 meter up this wall? 🤯The magic of rare alien dispersal! 🤯 #UrbanPlants #WallPlants @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social

A fantastic initiative to be part of - Read the Forestry England's Beaver Trial report!

Our annual membership special offer opens today! Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12. Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi... Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us

Coming soon: 'Wild Roses of Great Britain and Ireland'. This latest title, no.26 in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plant groups, has just gone to the printers! Available for #BSBImembers to pre-order now at the discount price of £16 (vs RRP £25). Sample pages here: bsbi.org/bsbi-handboo...

Back from the fantastic @bsbibotany.bsky.social Mentha workshop run by @ambroisebaker.bsky.social. I learnt a lot, mints can be so variable. On the field meeting we found a number of different species. First photo is M. x gracilis, second is M. x smithiana and third is M. x verticillata.

2025 Poaceae walk on the North Yorkshire Coast – as close to 50 species as ever! While in 2023 and 2024, we came very close to observing 50 species of grasses during the walk, this year, we came even one inch closer to 50 mark! Here is a link to the species that have been observed this year and in…

Full CIEEM Membership Awarded Very proud to report that my application for full membership of CIEEM, the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, has been accepted. Full membership is awarded to "senior professionals with a high degree of knowledge, experience, skills and…

FSC 2-day Courses Delivered: Botany Skills for Ecologist (2x) and Priority Open Lowland Habitats (1x). Over the summer 2025, I was fortunate to meet and train about 30 professional ecologists during Field Studies Council courses. We focussed on plant and habitat identification as well as discussed…

Back at base, and we looked at the hairs in the throat of the calyx tubes. This was fascinating. Mentha pullegium (right) compared with M. x gracilis. Both had hairs within the calyx tube, but M. pullegium had a clear cone-shaped, ring of hairs.

Thanks Alex for coming to the workshop and for posting these pictures - There are other double and triple hybrids that have not been found in Britain and Ireland to date, so the mint quest continues....

Thank you Astrid for coming along the workshop, this was a tremendous weekend. Fair to say that we have all learnt a lot! And still so much to learn!

Above ground biomass sampling at Wild Saltholme This drone footage shows PhD student Austine Otabor and supervisor Dr Ambroise Baker collecting a Above Ground Biomass sample from rewilding site Wild Saltholme, managed by RSPB Saltholme, Northeast of England. This field work is part of a research…

Exploring the Science of Rewilding workshop – 10-11 July 2025, Hauxley Nature Reserve and West Chevington – BES Rewilding SIG I attended this excellent workshop led by Rebecca Senior from Durham University, the local Wildlife Trust and the British Ecological Society's Rewilding SIG . Excellent…

Thanks for a bril workshop - truly enjoyed listing from and speaking to a range of practitioners and academics

Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!

to pull or not to pull? one plant of Yellow Buttonweed Cotula coronopifolia last week in @rspb.bsky.social's Wild Saltholme, in the Tees Valley. Dilemma for #rewilding and #invasives management @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social typical habitat on CFGM - Coastal floodplain and grazing marsh

Gutted that you missed our recent #WildFlowerID webinars? Mulleins (with @anaturalistabroad.bsky.social) Mints (with @ambroisebaker.bsky.social) Broomrapes (with @christhorogood.bsky.social) No problem, we recorded them & the videos are on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Article in CIEEM’s In Practice: Brownfields in the Tees Valley are golden assets for nature recovery Baker, A. (2025). Brownfield in the Tees Valley are golden assets for nature recovery. In practice : bulletin of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. Issue 128, pp…

Still working on list but pictures of the day here photos.app.goo.gl/HeEp452m1Fn3... And now thinking of 2026 Poaceae Walk for @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fantastic day looking at grasses, @bsbibotany.bsky.social Poaceae Walk on the coastal slopes btw Marske and Saltburn, vc 62. Now sorting specimens and lists... Did we get to 50 sp.? Thanks all for a great day out

Fantastic day looking at grasses, @bsbibotany.bsky.social Poaceae Walk on the coastal slopes btw Marske and Saltburn, vc 62. Now sorting specimens and lists... Did we get to 50 sp.? Thanks all for a great day out

"Our results also highlight that connectivity effects must be integrated in landscape-scale, evidence-led decision-making, designed to reduce impacts of stressors on water quality and biodiversity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #freshwater #biodiversity #research #hydroscape #nerc

The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org landed on door mat today, in for a treat a usual

@jimhorsfall.bsky.social - you've validated a iRecord with an ID that should be adjusted irecord.org.uk/record-detai... as it is likely to be Mentha x verticilliata (see comment within)- beautiful picture btw showing the characteristics of a hybrid mint involving M. arvensis. An interesting find.

Wonderful to see Ophioglossum vulgatum this weekend in Guisborough- discovered thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #nomowmay in ancient lawn www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2521242... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Botanical training offered in 2025: plantsbiodiversityecosystems.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/b... @bsbibotany.bsky.social @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social

We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free! 22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe 7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker 10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social Details & booking links: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...

Walahfrid's Advent calendar, door 16. Mint (Mentha spp.) But if any man can name The full list of all the kinds and all the properties Of mint, he must be one who knows how many fish Swim in the Indian ocean. #histmed #medievalsky

How to set policy priorities for freshwater biodiversity? - one of the key it to understand where biodiversity currently is and how it is distributed - hope you enjoy our latest publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...