Around a dozen or more Skemorlie residents joined us for a walk through Kelly Woods as botanist Angus Hannah set about recording plant species present. Peter Livingstone from Eadha Enterprises also joined us. Walk route and plant diversity We met at Wemyss Bay Station, heading up to the woods via Station Road, stopping near the […]
Read More… from Findings of Our Group Walk with Angus Hannah
Angus Hannah has lived on Bute since 1978 and has been recorder for Clyde Isles on behalf of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) since 2002. He joined Marie and Tom for a walk up Kelly Glen and gave lots of useful information. Here are some notes taken: Notes The Kelly Gorge woods […]
We have been in communications with Eadha Enterprises, looking to see how we can learn from the organisation and looking for possibilities on how to work together in the future. Here are some notes on possible ways in which we could help each other in the future: […]
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Data of the small survey we’ve been doing of one of the more open areas of the Kelly Wood, looking at sapling survival rates over the last 4 years. The objective was to see if the oaks were germinating at all or were getting munched. Interestingly it’s showing that although there is a fair amount […]
Read More… from Sapling growth and survival rates at Kelly Woods
Rhododendron Ponticum This plant is a non-native invasive species in Scotland and is listed on Schedule 9 of the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act. It originally comes from the Iberian peninsula, Eastern Europe and West Asia and was brought to Britain in the Victorian period to plant as an ornamental shrub around estate houses. It […]
