For 2022, the Scottish Spring Conference is expanding to become a national Spring Conference! It will be held on Saturday 26th March and everyone interested in recording and identifying plants is very welcome. We will have an inspiring programme of talks, workshop and a question & answer session - all online and recorded for viewing later or again.
The event is free but booking is essential. For more information, visit the Spring Conference 2022 webpage or go straight to the booking form.
Scottish Spring Conference 2021
We held a very successful online Scottish Spring Conference on the 20th March 2021. Stuart Adair gave a truly inspiring keynote talk to mark 20 years of conservation work at Carrifran Wildwood. We launched the new Scottish recording projects - the Scottish HectAd Rare Plant Project and the Urban Flora Project and there were great talks on Mountain Flowers and Local Groups.
Conference talks are on BSBI's YouTube channel and linked here:
- 20 years of conservation at Carrifran Wildwood – Stuart Adair, Borders Forest Trust
- My Lockdown Year - Brian Ballinger, Easter Ross Recorder
- Mountain Flowers - Alan Walker, BSBI member
- Scottish HectAd Rare Plant Project - Jim McIntosh
- Urban Flora Project - John Grace, Botanical Society of Scotland
- Local Groups - Michael Philip, Lanarkshire Recorder
- News from the BSBI - Jim McIntosh, BSBI Scottish Officer
Conference resources
- The Carrifran Wildwood Story: Ecological Restoration from the Grass Roots book by Myrtle & Philip Ashmole, 2009
- A Journey in Landscape Restoration: Carrifran Wildwood and Beyond book by Myrtle & Philip Ashmole (Eds), 2020
- Identify Mountain Flowers of Britain and Ireland, free downloadable book by Alan Walker
- Urban Flora Project website
- Urban Flora of Scotland blog
- The floriferous urban flora of 2020 talk given by John Grace at the Scottish Botanists' Conference
- Scottish Local Groups page
- National Plant Monitoring Scheme website
- Rare Plant Registers page
- Interview with Sarah Woods, BSBI’s new Fundraising Officer blog by Louise Marsh