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Warrior’s Friendship
Valerian is a plant long utilised by herbalists in the Gàidhealtachd and beyond. Leugh ann an Gàidhlig I have written previously in this blog about how the meadowsweet is known in Gaelic tradition as a plant that once soothed the … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Folklore, Gaelic, plants, wild flowers
Tagged Folklore, Gaelic, nature, NatureScot, plants, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Valerian, wild flowers
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Carthan Curaidh
Tha an lus seo aithnichte do lighichean luibheach air a’ Ghàidhealtachd agus tìrean cèin. Read in English Tha mi air sgrìobhadh mu-thràth mu dheidhinn an luis ris an canar Crios Chù Chulainn a tha aithnichte mar meadowsweet ann am Beurla. … Continue reading
Posted in Folklore, Gaelic, plants, Uncategorized, wild flowers
Tagged Folklore, Gaelic, Gaelic language, laverian, nature, NatureScot, plants, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Valeriana officinalis, wild flowers
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Connecting people and plants
SNH’s Iain Macdonald was just one of around 175 people with a passion for wild plants at an unofficially record-breaking meeting in Edinburgh recently… Not long ago I was sitting in a room surrounded by botanists, probably the single largest … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, conference, Flowers, plants, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, science, SNH, Uncategorized, wild flowers
Tagged botanists, botany, flowers, plants, RGBE, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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