Sarithus' Cartography

Seeing as this is a blog about all things nature or landscape related, I thought I'd give a shout-out to my brother's excellently produced fantasy maps at Sarithus Maps: Artistic Cartography (www.sarithus.com). Not that he needs the attention from this tiny blog; he's practically famous for his 'Clichea' map.

He also does inexpensive commissions.

Cheers.

Plants and Their History

Old photo of a majestic Oak in Stansted Forest, Hampshire

Hello, all.

Decided a few days ago that I want to focus on botany as my main interest. Woodland ecology has always been my favourite area of study and indeed whenever I go to a natural history museum I seem to just be drawn to exhibits on the Carboniferous and so forth! I want to try and focus more on tree and wild flower ecology/biology and learn as much as I can on the subject. I'm not so interested in artificial horticultural varieties, more so the ecology and history of vascular plants. At the high end of spectrum I'd say I'm most interested in dabbling in either palaeobotany or archaeobotany. There's also ethnobotany though this has less of a historic spin. I'm undecided which one I'm most intrigued by as they are all interesting but very different in that one focuses on very early climatic climax vegetation and the other two deal in plagioclimax vegetation and its utilitarian use in different timescales. I just know I want to study and focus on plants and their history in some way, but I'm only at the superficial entry level at the moment.

So yes, I've been focusing on plants a lot more (and am currently reading the in-depth Trees: their natural history by Peter Thomas.). I've been toying with the idea of making a separate blog and documenting trees or flowers of some historic, ecological or purely aesthetic significance. In other words, I quite like the idea of going round taking photos of plants. We'll see where it goes. 

Cheers.