Flowering Plants and Ferns Reports

Vascular plants in Wiltshire 2010
"Approximately half of the new finds in North Wiltshire this year were the result of one man’s quest for botanical excellence. Jack Oliver has been assiduously recording the area around Marlborough for many years but amazingly he still manages to find new things."

Vascular plants in Wiltshire Activities and highlights in 2009
Once again the neophytes dominated the new arrivals scene. Neophytes are those plants that have joined the British flora as self-perpetuating populations within the last 500 years or so. Many of these species have arrived as garden plants and have escaped or been introduced into the wild. Others arrive as aliens via trade routes (docklands often have interesting neophytic floras) and spread, perhaps aided by changes in the climate.

Vascular Plant Review Of 2008
"Once again it’s been a busy year, despite the weather; I shall say no more about that. My work commitments this year have meant that I haven’t managed to get out recording as much as I had hoped (a now-familiar refrain!) but I’m delighted to say that many others have been very busy and I’ve been delighted to hear about many of the finds. It’s also been very nice to make contact with a few new recorders."

Vascular plants in Wiltshire Activities and highlights in 2006-7
"Despite the strange weather, 2007 was another fine year for botanical recording in the county, with records being submitted by an ever-greater number of people. In May intensive county-wide recording efforts in 2005 and 2006 bore fruit with the publication of the Wiltshire Rare Plant Register, a document that identifies and describes the rarest and most threatened plants in the county, as well as those which have a wider concern. The data in the Register have already been used in a range of different ways to target and drive forward botanical conservation in the county."

Click on the links below to download reports before 2007

Flowering Plants and Ferns 2005

Flowering Plants and Ferns 2004

Japanese Knotweed in Wiltshire (2002)

Flowering Plants South Wiltshire 1999

Flowering Plants South Wiltshire 1998

Flowering Plants North Wiltshire 1997

Flowering Plants South Wiltshire 1997