In advance of our residency at the Big Shed on Tombreck Farm Judith has written to us about the sketches she has created. ​ ​ One of the...

Last year we were fortunate enough to receive funding to commission Judith Weir’s ‘Sundew’ a short miniature duo written as part of...

​​ We concluded our set of TRANSPLANTED concerts at St Bride's Church in Newtonmore and for Lochaber Music for all, in Corpach. We have...

With the theme of native Scottish plants depicted in music, dynamic duo High Heels and Horse Hair, Alice Rickards (violin) and Sonia...

Sonia and I are both members of Plantlife and have enjoyed working with Deborah and the team at Plantlife Scotland to create...

The East coast leg of our TRANSPLANTED tour saw us perform in two very different venues. On Saturday 18th October we travelled to the...

We had a wonderful weekend performing TRANSPLANTED at two of National Trust for Scotland's stunning gardens. On friday night we headed...

First published in The Herald on 8 October, 2014 What does sneezewort sound like? A bit slimy. Lichen? Think intertwining, symbiotic...

Plantlife Scotland is delighted to be supporting High Heels and Horse Hair and their TRANSPLANTED project. Plants and fungi are...

Bogs – the Cinderella of the natural world. Bogs really do have bad press; they bring up connotations of wasteland, emptiness, squelchy...

Having always had a penchant for the sinister, I was immediately attracted to the subject matter for my TRANSPLANTED miniature. Fungi...

As summer moves towards autumn, and grassland flowers fade, a second show of colour can be provided by fungi. Among the most colourful...

Not in fact a plant, but a lichen. I saw some of these little beauties when I took shelter next to a damp rock on a wet, sullen winter’s...

A Scottish bog in summer can be a haven of calm, as imagined by David Ward in his post for this blog. All too often, however, a still day...

Having not lived near the Scottish countryside for many moons, I asked Sonia and Alice to nominate a plant for my composition. I’m so...

My favourite place is the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. My mind and eyes are refreshed after a visit to the flowers and plants there. No...

The bright red poppy worn around the time of Remembrance Day is one of our most recognisable and poignant symbols in modern Britain. The...

All over Scotland our native plants are having a riotous time this summer. The long spring and summer mean that blooms have been...