Boulby on a Sunday afternoon at the end of August.

Posted on 1st September 2015

Cloudy, with very little wind.

There were interesting plants almost as soon as we got out of our cars, on the layby opposite the potash mine. Here, verge cutting during the year (the equivalent to the gardener’s Chelsea Chop) had given

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Tuesday afternoon at Hummersea on 25th August.

Posted on 26th August 2015

Sunny with some cloud; windy at the clifftop but quite sheltered on the steps.

As there is very little space for parking at Hummersea, we ferried people from the car park at Loftus and some people walked from there too enjoying

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Iron Valley Club – Skinningrove 11th August

Posted on 12th August 2015

We started the day with some wildflower identification games – who knew that was even possible. Four drawings and all the children given a flower – stand behind the drawing (a simple enlarged line drawing) that nearest matches your flower

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Iron Valley Club – Skinningrove July 28th

Posted on 12th August 2015

It was raining so we couldn’t go out…never mind, we stayed in at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and learnt how to draw a plant accurately. First choose your plant (I’d been out earlier collecting some of the more plentiful

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Cattersty: Thursday 23rd July in the evening

Posted on 30th July 2015

We all gathered at the car park and stared transfixed (first plant we looked at, so people are bound to be genuinely interested) at the Hoary Mustard behind the crash barrier which was a mass of quite small nondescript yellow

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