Scotland

This is a one-day workshop at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on Saturday 19 May 2018. It will focus on the practicalities of recording and will include:

• How to select size and location of square to survey
• How to plan a route in the square
• How to find, prepare and complete recording cards
• How to use a GPS
• Recording fieldcraft

The workshop, which will be part indoors and part in the field, is for improvers who are reasonably confident with scientific names. Book your place now here!

BSBI Scottish Officer, Jim McIntosh 

After two very successful workshops in 2017, we are planning two one-day workshops in Dumfries and Aberdeen in May 2018 to help beginners and improvers identify plant families and plants. Non-members very welcome! Click the links for further  information and to book.

We are also planning to hold two FREE follow-up days in the field especially for participants of the workshops (past and present) and for anyone else interested in improving their skills and confidence in identification in the field. They will be held at:

• Saturday 28 July St Cyrus National Nature Reserve, near Montrose.
• Saturday 4 August Ballinluig, near Pitlochry.

For further information or to book on either of these follow-up days please contact: Faith Anstey ([email protected]).

Click on the link to download a full list of all the Scottish Field Meetings for 2018. Many of them aim to improve Atlas 2020 coverage in Scotland so we’d be really pleased if Scottish botanists (whether members or not) would give the programme their full support! Several are targeted at beginners and improvers – and again we’d welcome both members and non-members.

The Scottish Annual Meeting is being rebranded as the "Scottish Botanists' Conference" to broaden its appeal to both members and non-members.

In 2018 the Scottish Botanists' Conference will be held on Saturday the 3rd November at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

The 2017 BSBI Scottish Recording Conference was held over the weekend of the 10-12 March at FSC Kindrogan.

For details of the programme and pdfs of all the presentations and further details please see the Scottish Conferences page. 

The 2017 Scottish Annual Meeting was held on Saturday 4^th November at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. We had 150 participate in a packed and exciting day of botanical talks, workshops, exhibits and posters.

The exhibition abstracts and the presentations are on the Scottish Annual Meeting page as pdfs.  Take a look!

Judging of the 2017 BSBI Photographic Competition also took place at the Scottish Annual Meeting - images and more info here.

Many groups organise botanical field meetings across Scotland. Here is a selection:

• Kirkcudbrightshire run by David Hawker
• Lanarkshire run by Michael Philip
• Perthshire - Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences
• Highlands - Inverness Botany Group
• Moray run by Ian Green

Natural History Societies in Scotland in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh, Paisley, Berwick and Lochaber also arrange field meeting programs that usually include some botany or botanical outings.

To find out which plants were spotted in bloom in Scotland during the 2018 New Year Plant Hunt, check out the map on the Results page and the Year Plant Hunt Twitter feed here.

Many thanks to all Scottish recorders who took part!