Is it a lovely plant for the garden or just a nuisance? Himalayan Balsam has a reputation of destruction and domination, however bees do use it as a source of nectar. Pete our dedicated volunteer worked his boots off clearing ...
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TUESDAY The sun showed his face through the clouds on only the odd occasion on tuesday at Cammo Estate, but this didn't dampen the volunteers spirits in the slightest as we quickly constructed a 15 metre bark chip path ...
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Today was the last day tackling the Giant Hogweed for Cromarty Fisheries Project on a site near Milton. A combination of brute force severing tap roots and selective spraying with glycosate should knock out three generations ...
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Hello all, another week gone at Edinburgh and another VO bites the dust, this is Rachels last blog before moving on to pastures new and I'm sure at the end of it will be some moving and poignant words of farewell. But we'll ...
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Again the industrious Merkinch Green Gym are far from beating about the bush clearing a very overgrown garden at the Corbett Centre, Inverness. John, James and Ivor skillfully prune the most unruly shrub. Our ...
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