What do you see when you look at a herbarium specimen? Just a boring, dried plant?

They actually hold many secrets to help scientists save people & our planet🌍

Check out what a scientist sees when they look at a herbarium specimen 🧵👇
👉kew.org/read-and-watch…

Are you passionate about #heritage and the positive impact it can have on people and places?

We're looking for two new committee members to join the The National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands and East team.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 22 May

Find out more: heritagefund.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac…

Dole Wood is a lovely ancient woodland. Thanks to our local members, there's a special open day there this Saturday with guided walks, refreshments, excellent home-made cooking and locally grown plants available to buy for your garden.

More info here 👇
lincstrust.org.uk/events/2024-04…

Come join us on our first field trip of the year! We are going on a Wild Trail around Banovallum Carr, a nature reserve that is home to various trees, birds and insects 🐦🐛🌳

Lovely to meet new botanists at the first South Lincs Flora Group meeting of 2024 in Morkery Wood. A sociable and productive session recording two monads, re-finding several RPR species and collecting herbarium specimens of five species for Love Lincs Plants

BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

An excellent day’s herbarium collecting with Sarah Lambert and South Lincs Flora Group at Morkery Wood today. 5 species collected including wood spurge 📷and moschatel for Love Lincs Plants Sir Joseph Banks and NHM Botany

JOB: Join our largest ever project and help us digitise our entire collection of 8m herbarium and fungarium specimens. We're looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to perform quality checks on imaged specimens 🌿

👉 ow.ly/g0N350QKJRx

📆 Closing: 10 March

Suddenly, flowers of Elm, Alder Blackthorn and Goat Willow have appeared everywhere, untouched by the floodwater and mud that's splattered most smaller plants in the countryside round Peterborough #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

The snowdrops and aconites are just starting to emerge in the feeding station wood. It's always a few degrees cooler up in the Wolds so they are a tad later. Noticing Nature: the British microseason project BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Love Lincs Plants

Do you have a passion for natural history, education and the environment that you want to share with others?
We're looking for a new Education & Community Assistant to join our team at Whisby Nature Park.
More info 👇
lincstrust.org.uk/jobs/education…

What does a #herbarium curator do? A new blog by Mark Carine on the work of the botany curation team Natural History Museum Science: bit.ly/41uJUTB
#botany #curation

The South Lincs Flora Group @BSBI #NewYearPlantHunt will be in Lincoln on 31st Dec weather permitting. All Lincs botanists (VC53/54) very welcome. More details to follow nearer the time or DM me to be added to the mailing list LNU Love Lincs Plants Lincs Wildlife Trust

Well done to Sir Joseph Banks museum for organising the Lincolnshire historic herbarium exhibition now on display until December. The National Lottery Heritage Fund 👏🌱

📢Help shape a new Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Greater Lincolnshire by completing a quick survey.

This is your chance to have your say on the habitats and species you consider important and what should be done to protect them👇
letstalk.lincolnshire.gov.uk/local-nature-r…

New talk in aid of Revesby Church

Join us & Forestry Commission for Wolds Woodland Wonders on 31st July 2023. 10am to 12pm. A walk of 3 ½ miles to discover the wide variety of trees & woodland plants at Willingham & to hear about the recent management of the wood. Forestry England #LincsWolds50 lincswolds.org.uk/events/wolds-w…

Volunteering for us doesn't have to mean hands-on work on our reserves.

We are looking for people with a variety of skills and experiences, and of all ages and backgrounds, to give some of their time and perspective as trustees.

Find out more👇
lincstrust.org.uk/jobs/wildlife-…

Thanks to Lincoln Conservation Group for scything our mini meadow Lincs Wildlife Trust HQ today. Lots of new faces giving this traditional rural skill a go. We appreciate your long term commitment to meadow management. 👏🌱🐝💚

Collected some nice plants for the new Lincolnshire herbarium and NHM Botany today. Hard fern and water purslane. Thanks to Doddington Hall for hosting us and Luke Bamforth Brian Hedley and Sarah Lambert for leading. LNU Sir Joseph Banks Love Lincs Plants

Keen to take a Field ID Skills Certificate #FISC in 2023?
It's fun & it's the industry standard for assessing #WildFlowerID skills!
There are a few spaces still available on FISCs in Norfolk on 14 July & Cheshire on 21 & 22 July.
More info & bookings here: bsbi.org/field-skills