New Year Plant Hunt 2018 | NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

NEW YEAR PLANT HUNT 2 January 2018

A group of 19 of us set out this morning to see how many plants we could find in flower. The New Year Plant Hunt is a BSBI (Botanic Society of the Britain and Ireland) initiative, now in it’s seventh year, and this was our forth year at Natural Surroundings. In good weather we headed down the valley to Glandford, explored an arable field that had been left as stubble over winter and then returned to our café just as it began to rain. On the way back several of us had a pleasant surprise – we heard loud mewing noises, stopped to listen and three young otters swam down the river beside us! The following list, a respectable 52 species, are the plants we found in flower.