Category: News
New Year Plant Hunt
As many of you are probably aware by now, the BSBI has been running a recording exercise in the days around New Year’s Day – from 30th December to the […]
Autumn Get-together 2023
It’s not every day, at least in Sussex, that you encounter in flower the three species of Gorse which are native to the British Isles, but thanks to our President […]
Changing Chalk – a new National Trust initiative
Changing Chalk is a new initiative by the National Trust to restore and conserve chalk grassland in its care. They are looking for volunteers and interested parties to join them […]
From a Bryum at Beachy Head: Charlotte Smith, Sussex and botany
[A talk delivered at the SBRS AGM 7 March 2020. Only a small number of the sources are given here; for a more comprehensive list of references see Clemit & […]
Hawkweeds of south-east England
This is very special news, not just for the south east, but for Sussex… The latest in the series of BSBI Handbooks is coming soon! Hawkweeds of south-east England, BSBI […]
A new update to the Excel Record Card (ERC)
The current version of the ERC was published almost 3 years ago in January 2017. It incorporated some new taxa and some background coding changes to highlight archaeophyte species. Since […]
The Stoneworts of Sussex to be published in February
Following on from the huge labour that was The Flora of Sussex (2018), Frances Abraham has continued to work on additional accounts of the plants of Sussex, now focussing on […]
Photographic Competition 2019
Starry Clover, Helen Dignum Sea Milkwort, Jacqueline Rose Following the success of the 2018 Photographic Competition, we are holding a further competition this year. The rules of the competition are […]
“in a field of flowers”: Exhibition at Lewes Castle
Sussex Archaeological Society (SAS) have an exhibition running through to 31 December that SBRS members will certainly be interested in. The collection at Barbican House Museum in Lewes includes a […]
Treesome: Exhibition at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
Christina Hart-Davies is well known to members of the SBRS; not only did she paint the majority of the illustrations in David Streeter’s Wild Flower Guide, but she came to […]