Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
BSBI 100 Plants for 2026 We are keen to help people engage with their local nature and knowing the names of the plants around you is very satisfying and creates a sense of contentment. We are supporting the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland’sRead More
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Once a knight was walking beside a river with his beloved, but he slipped on wet grass into the river. He clutched at the vegetation as he fell but it was to no avail. As he disappeared under the water, dragged down by hisRead More
Leave a comment Nature has a habit of finding places to call home even in harsh environments. Some creatures thrive in deserts, our shingle beach garden is battered by storms but some plants and invertebrates cling on. There are even life forms that colonise the edges ofRead More
Leave a comment Looking for something other than Camellias to brighten the winter gloom, I scrolled through the Biodiversity Group’s records for February to see what we might find on a gentle stroll. We have records of many different birds and a surprising number of bumblebee sightings, mainly the Buff-tailed species, like the one inRead More
Leave a comment We Used To Have Carnivorous Plants On Salcombe And Peak Hills, Now You Have To Go Up Onto The Pebblebed Heaths To See These Amazing Plants. Sundews are curious little plants that have adapted to survive in heathland bogs where few other plant speciesRead More
Leave a comment One of our most insignificant wild plant groups straggles across many areas of the valley studding banks and meadows with tiny blue dots. A close look reveals small, even tiny, but beautifully neat and precise flowers ranging from almost white to vivid Wedgwood blue,Read More
Leave a comment Our next plant ID walk will be a gentle walk starting at Weston Car Park, Grammar Lane, Weston. The plan is to start at Weston car park, which is along eastern side of Weston Comb. Then we’ll follow the gentle path above the publicRead More
Leave a comment Just over 170 years ago Dr. WH Cullen conducted a botanical survey of herbaceous plants ion the Sid Valley and surrounding area. In 1849 Cullen published his findings in a book he entitled, Flora Sidostiensis, a copy can be seen in the town library.Read More
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