We had a truly delightful afternoon looking at wild plants on a walk in our own home town..
Nine of us took part and logged the wild plants we found along the way.
It was inspired by “City Nature Challenge 2025”, a global way of tracking changes in plant life over time.
Our walk was part of “City Nature Challenge 2025 Congleton” organised by the Congleton Museum, to compare plants now with those found in a local survey in 1915.
We used notebooks and the iNaturalist app to log, locate and identify what we saw.
I’ve today received a thank you email from iNaturalist for posting my first “Research Grade” observation to it!
We followed paths and sunken lanes along the line of the Howty Brook, as well as ancient town alleyways and the site of a mill water wheel.
The concentration we applied to our task was impressive.
We found plenty of shade to keep us cool on a hot April day.
Thank you to all who came, for your company on a glorious Spring day.