I am a farmer in the central Borders with a particular interest in how we use land to produce food whilst managing it for nature and recreation. I have been the BSBI recorder in Peeblesshire since 2011.
I systematically recorded the flora of a 10km square in Selkirkshire near my home over the summer of 2020. I visited 43 of the 100 1km squares (monads) in the 10km square (hectad), and collected more than 7,500 records of over 600 species. Some notable and surprising are reported here.