Everyone is
welcome to join the field meetings, you don't have to be a member and no prior
experience of botanising is necessary!
Just contact the leader first to check the arrangements. Bring outdoor clothing, boots, packed lunch
and a drink. Unless stated we meet at 11:00 am.
We are also affiliated with the Northwestern Naturalists' Union and warmly welcome members and affiliated recording groups.
Sunday 28th July. Shrawardine Millenium Green and churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Shrawardine, meet at 11am at the gate onto the Green SJ 40074 15507, where we can park neatly, just inside the gate. We will record in the Green and then move to the churchyard in the village, neither of which have comprehensive species lists. For those feeling intrepid we can proceed after lunch to the nearby Shrawardine Pool SSSI, for which we have permission from the owners to look for Cowbane Cicuta virosa, Royal Fern Osmunda regalis, Skullcap Scutellaria galericulata and other goodies of marsh, swamp and fen. We will have to do battle with nettles, brambles, mosquitos and boggy ground and a tangle of Willow and Alder roots, so unlike the morning it will be no walk in the park! Leader Mags Cousins; mags@bagbatch.co.uk, 07873 532681.
Saturday 24th
August. Wem Moss a Shropshire
Wildlife Trust owned site. Martin Godfrey will be providing a guiding hand in
identifying Sphagnum. Thirteen different species of Sphagnum have
been recorded here in the past, making it an interesting site to botanise. Parking
at SJ 46883 33387, https://w3w.co/heightens.kipper.seaside.
Other rarities include Wood Small-reed Calamagrostis epigejos, Bog
Myrtle Myrica gale, Royal Fern Osmunda regalis and Rhynchospora
alba White Beak-sedge. Leaders Martin Godfrey and
John Handley, 07507 054695, johnhandley11@gmail.com.
31st August. Coppice Leasowes Nature Reserve, which belongs
to the Church Stretton Town Council and a neighbouring site: High Leasowes a 16 acre meadow purchased in 2022 by
the local community. Coppice Leasowes is wetland site; the stream, Ashbrook from
Cardingmill Valley, has recently been re-meandered. Parking and meeting on the
east side of the A49, on Helmeth Road, SO 46038 93846, https://w3w.co/special.dentures.expensive.
Mike Carter and John Handley to lead 07507 054695, johnhandley11@gmail.com.
