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Hanging Gradens of Glasdrum
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Argyllshire - Glasdrum
A moss covered tree in Glasdrum National Nature Reserve, signposted as the "Hanging Gardens of Glasdrum", and showing the wet conditions which encourage lush growth in the so-called "Atlantic Rain Forest" of western Scotland.
28 May 2015
Bluebell wood
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Argyllshire - Glen Creran
Bluebell wood, Glen Creran, Appin
28 May 2015
Bluebell wood
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Argyllshire - Glen Creran
Bluebell wood, Glen Creran, Appin
28 May 2015
Moss covered tree, Glen Creran
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Argyllshire - Glen Creran
Moss covered tree in the Oakwoods of Glen Creran
28 May 2015
Conservation volunteer with tree guard, Flanders Moss
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
A conservation volunteer finishing construction of a tree guard created from coppiced Alder at the Flanders Moss car park, taken by Polly Phillpot.
20 October 2021
Alder and coppiced Alder with tree guard, Flanders Moss
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) trees, with a tree guard protecting a coppiced Alder from deer grazing, constructed by Nature Scot staff and conservation volunteers, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve
20 October 2021
Chalara (Ash Dieback) lesion on an Ash tree twig, Blawhorn Moss NNR
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West Lothian - Blawhorn Moss
The brown lesion along an Ash twig is one of the earliest signs of Chalara or Ash Dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus), a fungal disease of Ash trees which is likely to eventually to kill the tree, taken by David Palmar
Volunteer James, ecologist with Natural Power, removing invasive Silver Birch (Betula pendula) with a tree popper on Lenzie Moss, as part of Butterfly Conservation Scotland's bog squad. Removing trees helps to keep the bog wet and encourages the growth of sphagnum and other peat-forming mosses. Peat is many times more effective than trees at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, thus helping to combat climate change.
03 September 2017
Flanders Moss with scrub, looking west to Ben Lomond
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Pine and birch trees encroaching on the bog, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, looking west towards Ben Lomond
14 January 2017
Flanders Moss with scrub, looking west to Ben Lomond
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Pine and birch trees encroaching on the bog, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, looking west towards Ben Lomond
