Chemistry, ferns and other musings

I've been looking back at some bryophyte samples I collected last summer at a location on the western edge of Dartmoor. The geology was ...

Half term is a time for many jobs, so although I'd hoped to do the actual sowing yesterday I just ran out of time. Today I've painte...

 It has been a long time since I last grew ferns from spores, so I thought I would try to capture the process here, along with some tips and...

This morning I came across an old packet containing a Sphagnum  sp that I had collected a couple of years ago on Dartmoor. Whilst I didn...

Today I have been looking at a little fragment of moss I collected in Branscombe, Devon, in early July. It was one of several collected toge...

  This is between Cart Gap and Happisburgh  (the pronunciation of Happisburgh is a Norfolk shibboleth ... if you don't know, I'm not...

 Last year, just before the pandemic began in earnest in the UK, I bought a dissecting stereo microscope (it was my birthday present from M)...