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carlinethis.bsky.social

@carlinethis.bsky.social
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Interests include botany, growing plants for habitat creation, archaeology.

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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Spring Sedge and Rare Spring Sedge are starting to flower in the polytunnel @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social habitat creation nursery. Already easy to tell apart, with Rare Spring Sedge (C. ericetorum) showing dark purplish- brown flowers, with papery edges to the glumes, and no green at all.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Marsh Violet (Viola palustris) flowering in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social and seed is now germinating after a cold strat. fridge treatment.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Great to see almost 2000 plants for Nidderdale National Landscape leaving the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social Much of the material was collected in Nidderdale, bulked up in the nursery, and will be used to enhance a network of new upland ponds & scrapes.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Cladium mariscus grown in the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social being planted into some rather challenging clay, starting a new area of quarry restoration.
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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This fen creation trial by the High Batts team at Pennycroft Quarry is hopefully the start of something much bigger. It's survived a mammoth river flood and prolonged inundation. Adjoining open water is crystal clear and dominated by stonewort beds, suggesting ideal conditions for calcareous fen.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We are getting Marsh Lousewort establishing in our created fen habitat @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social at last. We'll have to deter the deer from taking all the seed for a while yet. @judywebb.bsky.social
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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Ripon Perambulation of 1481: a window onto the late medieval landscape of the Lower Ure Valley, North Yorkshire. www.luct.org.uk/new-page-2
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Jono Leadley @birdingdad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Great to see Water Germander thriving at Bolton-on-Swale Lake @yorkswildlife.bsky.social despite drought and sheep grazing, lots of plants established on the lakeshore drawdown zone. Thanks to @palustris.bsky.social and LUCT.
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Nosterfield Nature Reserve @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry For more information, see the link below: www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It looks like a sown mixture of 'cornfield annuals' without the corn crop. It is absolutely not a meadow, which is a mixture of grasses and mostly perennial plants, usually cut for hay.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Marsh Pea plants in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are setting seed for the first time. We have put plants together from several remaining Yorkshire sites, hoping for some genetic variation, as plants seem clonal in some places.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A Dyer's Greenweed stock plant flowering in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Seed from the Central henge at Thornborough, and plants we raise will be going back there. Stock plants in the polytunnel as deer ate all the flowers/ young pods in previous years.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A beautiful Marsh Stitchwort in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social seed collected from Lower Derwent Valley NNR.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tufted Loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora) in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Only the second time we've seen it flower, deer ate the buds last time. Only 1 site known in England.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great to see our plants from the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social flowering and about to produce seed so soon after planting. Thank you volunteers!
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Nosterfield Nature Reserve @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Fantastic to see Scarce Tufted Sedge, propagated by our team of volunteers here at Nosterfield, being introduced to four sites in Hertfordshire 👏👏 www.luct.org.uk/well-wetland... @heritagefunduk.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social @palustris.bsky.social
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Common Reed seed at the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. The extraction is a somewhat messy process involving a liquidiser and a feathery kitchen. I do hope they germinate.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Primula farinosa in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social, North Yorkshire.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Good to see Toothwort back, this is on Hazel, well ahead of that on Wych Elm this year, unlike most years.
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carlinethis.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Marsh Violet flowering @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social habitat creation nursery. Propped from a single plant collected in Nidderdale, to return there this year.
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