Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Many people are keen to make a space for nature in their garden. One of the best things you can do is make sure you have some open still water somewhere. Not only frogs, toads and newts, but dragonflies and damsel flies and manyRead More
Leave a comment Have you noticed the Holly trees in the churchyard and Blackmore Garden? They are overloaded with bright red berries. It is a super year for some tree fruits, traditionally called a mast year from the old term for tree fruits that fattened pigs let into the forest. Read More
Leave a comment Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner Our conker trees are being devoured from the inside, their leaves are being mined, but they don’t mind. This year’s hot dry summer has caused some of our trees to turn brown as if there is an early autumn, butRead More
Leave a comment In this video Ed Dolphin discusses Phycomania and the Queen of Seaweed, phycologist Amelia Griffiths.
Leave a comment You May Recall The Name W H Cullen. He compiled the Flora Sidostiensis That The SVBG Used as a Baseline in our 2021 Flowering Herbaceous Survey. Here is Information On Cullen’s Background Written by John Tench William Henry Cullen was born in on 23 JanuaryRead More
Leave a comment A year-long survey of the valley’s wild flowers has found over 400 different species, many of them recorded 170 years ago by a local doctor and amateur botanist. As part of the Biodiversity Group’s project to catalogue the area’s wildlife, a group of volunteersRead More
2 responses This is the eleventh and penultimate update to the year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants being carried out by volunteers with the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group. The group is compiling a modern list to compare with the list of species drawn up byRead More
Leave a comment Our herbaceous wildflower survey is finding many species flowering outside of their usual season. Click on the Buttercup to find out more.
Leave a comment This is the August 2021 update to the year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants being carried out by volunteers with the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group. Reports from previous months can be found on the Group’s website https://sidvalleybiodiversity.org/ and all of the group’s recordsRead More
Leave a comment Sid Valley Biodiversity Group’s wildflower hunt continues to find new treasures as they follow in the Victorian footsteps of a local doctor. Doctor WH Cullen had a keen interest in many branches of science including keeping weather records and cataloguing local wildlife. His 1849 bookRead More
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