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| Nodding Bur-Marigold at Barscube Hill Pond, Renfrewshire |
Keith is Curator of Botany at Glasgow Museums and the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) recorder for Renfrewshire.
The county account will list and map the distribution of all plants recorded as growing wild in the old county of Renfrewshire. And I know it has been a labour of love for Keith, so have been pleased to assist, filling the small number of gaps in his own photographic list.
I am supplying a mix of plant portraits and a few wider landscape shots. The portraits include the Nodding Bur-marigold Bidens cernua shown above, which occurs on my home patch at Barscube Hill Pond – one of only a few sites in West Central Scotland for this species.
Another is Round-leaved Crowfoot Ranunculus omiophyllus which is generally scarce in Scotland – plus a few arty shots of White Butterbur Petasites albus.
I am also finding a use for my portfolio of landscape shots taken in and around Knockmountain Farm at the start of 2012. This will help illustrate new forestry planting in the region – and was taken from the Gallahill Ridge looking southwest towards Kilmacolm. The low plant among the rocks in the foreground is English Stonecrop Sedum divergens.
I don't take nearly enough flower shots – I'm usually more interested in what's sitting on them than the plant itself. I'll try to rectify that this growing season. Good luck with the venture, Keith.
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Round-leaved Crowfoot at Barscube Hill West, Renfrewshire
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