Crafty Green Poet

 Yesterday we had a lovely walk around Arthur's Seat.  Flowers were in bloom everywhere,  this view over the wall down the cliff gives a...

Subtitled A True Story of Botanical Fraud , this book shines a light on a tale of botanical skulduggery on the Scottish Island of Rum that w...

Yesterday we went along to the first of the three events that form this year's Edinburgh Canal Festival , celebrating Edinburgh's Un...

    You might not think that there's enough to say about twilight to fill a hardback book, but this book is a real gem that will keep yo...

 Today in Scotland we were given a bank holiday for some reason. I hadn't managed to do a butterfly survey yet this survey week (the sur...

On the final day of our holiday in Oban we went to Glasdrum , a stunning woodland nature reserve   and home to the Chequered Skipper , a ra...

 Another of the trips we made while staying in Oban last week was to Benderloch Beach. It's a lovely pebbly beach    We saw a couple of ...