Calendar of botanical events in Hampshire
Please note that many organisations (including the Hampshire Flora Group and the Wildlife Trust) now require prior booking for all events, and you should check that the meeting accepts guests if you are not a member of the hosting organisation (if they do, they may expect a donation).
BSBI Recording sessions: Both Tony and Martin welcome a few people to assist on any session in the field.
March 2025
Tue 11 March 2025 - Sat 3 May 2025 10:00am- 4:30pm
Haslemere Museum, GU27 2LA Exhibition: Drawn From Nature: Orchids in bloom
Examples of a remarkably comprehensive set of British orchids painted by Walter Pearce in c.1933-1939. More details.
May 2025
Thu 1 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Woodlands, Ashurst, SU3210
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Fri 2 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Bramdean, SU6327, 6328
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sat 3 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Godshill, SU1715
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Mon 5 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Alice Holt, SU7940
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Thu 8 May 2025 6:00pm- 8:30pm
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Mount Down and Pitt Down, Farley, SU4028, SU4128
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying tracksides on two under-recorded monads on chalk farmland. Contact Martin for details
Sat 10 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: West Porchester, SU6005
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad: low-lying coast, secondary woodland, amenity grassland, suburbia. Contact Martin for details
Sun 11 May 2025 10:00am- 5:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Hayling Island seafront
Leader: Tristan Norton. Plants of coastal grassland.
Mon 12 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Privett, SU6727
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 13 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Compton Down, SU4626
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad on farming land and rough grassland on the chalk. Contact Martin for details
Thu 15 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Chibden Bottom area, SU1710
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad on the New Forest western commons; mostly heathland with some springs and step mires. Contact Martin for details
Fri 16 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Woodmancott, SU5641, SU5643
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Mon 19 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Barton Stacey, SU4340
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 20 May 2025 11:00am
Ringwood Natural History Society Field trip: Shatterford and Bishop's Dyke, New Forest
A walk for raptors and plants. Details in RNHS Winter programme
Sun 25 May 2025
BSBI Recording TPP recording, Fleet to Aldershot area
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Threatened Plant Project search for Genista anglica at several former sites. Contact Tony for details
Tue 27 May 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Bishop's Waltham, SU5416
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Wed 28 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Bordon, SU8137, SU8237
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Fri 30 May 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Hurstbourne Priors, SU4446, SU4445
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
June 2025
Wed 4 June 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Yateley, SU8258
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sat 7 June 2025 10:00am- 4:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Workshop: Getting started with a field guide, Shawford, Winchester
Leader: Martin Rand. This is an outdoor workshop (weather permitting) particularly aimed at beginners and near-beginners wanting
to develop their skills in using a handbook to identify plants rigorously. We shall be using the recently published WILDGuide British and Irish Wild Flowers and Plants: a Pocket Guide as our ‘textbook’ and the emphasis will be on the processes (observation and careful following of a procedure) involved in getting a good determination. Details in Autumn 2024 Flora News
Sat 7 June 2025 10:00am- 3:00pm
Cumberland House Museum Workshop: Grass identification
Leader: Phil Budd. Open to all: booking advised, cost £15. Learn how to identify some of the more commonly seen grass species in the UK using keys and plant specimens. See Cumberland House Facebook page
Sat 7 June 2025 9:30am-12:30pm
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Course: Wildflower Identification
Leader: Susan Simmonds. St Catherine's Hill Nature Reserve, Winchester. Spend a relaxing morning with Susan Simmonds learning how to identify wildflowers on this lovely chalk downland nature reserve. See Wildlife Trust Events Calendar for details.
Tue 10 June 2025
BSBI Recording TPP recording, Ladle Hill
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Threatened Plant Project search for Galium pumilum. Contact Tony for details
Fri 13 June 2025 5:30pm- 8:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Ipley and Applemore area, New Forest
Leader: Tristan Norton. Plants of humid heathland and ponds.
Sat 14 June 2025 10:00am- 4:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Shortheath Pond and Common
Leader: Tony Mundell. Details in Autumn 2024 Flora News
Mon 16 June 2025 9:00am- 5:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Malshanger Estate
Leader: Tristan Norton. Surveying a rich arable flora.
Wed 18 June 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Stockbridge, SU3435, SU3436
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sat 28 June 2025 10:00am- 3:00pm
Cumberland House Museum Workshop: Tree identification
Leader: Phil Budd. Open to all: booking advised, cost £15. Learn how to identify some of the common tree species in the UK using keys and plant specimens. See Cumberland House Facebook page
July 2025
Tue 1 July 2025
BSBI Recording TPP recording, Ashford Hill Meadows
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Threatened Plant Project search for Stellaria palustris at several former sites. Contact Tony for details
Sat 5 July 2025 - Sun 6 July 2025 10:00am- 4:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Workshop: Grass idenitification
Leaders: Martin Rand and Andy Cross. This full weekend workshop will include bench workshops at The Wildlife Trust's Study Centre at Testwood Lakes and fieldwork sessions. Details in Autumn 2024 Flora News
Fri 11 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Over Wallop, SU2839, SU2739, SU2837
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Mon 14 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Newnham, SU7053
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 15 July 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Blackpits Wood area, Lockerley, SU3028
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad on National Trust woodlands and adjoining countryside. Contact Martin for details
Thu 17 July 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Noad's Copse, SU2632
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Fri 18 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Little London, SU3851
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 22 July 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Little Somborne, SU3832
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad around the Saxon church on chalk farming land. Contact Martin for details
Wed 23 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Hawley, SU8459
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Thu 24 July 2025 6:00pm- 8:30pm
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Mount Down and Pitt Down, Farley, SU4028, SU4128
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying tracksides on two under-recorded monads on chalk farmland. Contact Martin for details
Fri 25 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Hawley, SU8557, SU8558, SU8657
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sun 27 July 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near King's Somborne, SU3632, SU3633
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Mon 28 July 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Ashmansworth, SU4257
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 29 July 2025 6:00pm- 8:30pm
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Winters Hill, Dursley / Upham, SU5218
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad in a mixed pastoral / agricultural landscape. Evening meeting. Contact Martin for details
August 2025
Fri 1 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near High Cross, SU7227, SU7226
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sun 3 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Bishop's Waltham, SU5416
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Tue 5 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Woodlands, Ashurst, SU3210
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Wed 6 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near East Tisted, SU7131
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Thu 7 August 2025
BSBI Recording TPP recording, Sherfield on Loddon and Hartley Wespall
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Threatened Plant Project search for Potamogeton nodosus. Contact Tony for details
Sat 9 August 2025 9:45am- 1:00pm
Alton Natural History Society Field trip: Itchen Stoke Mill water meadows and the River Itchen
Leader: Isobel Girvan. A walk through private land along the River Itchen, a beautiful chalk stream, and historic water meadows, observing plants and wildlife of all sorts. IMPORTANT: field meetings of Alton Natural History Society are for Society members only, and you MUST BOOK BEFOREHAND. Details in ANHS Spring/Summer programme
Sat 9 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip near Godshill, SU1715
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Martin for details.
Mon 11 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Faccombe, SU3858
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 12 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Compton Down, SU4626
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad on farming land and rough grassland on the chalk. Contact Martin for details
Thu 14 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: West Porchester, SU6005
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad: low-lying coast, secondary woodland, amenity grassland, suburbia. Contact Martin for details
Fri 15 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Hatch Warren, SU6047
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Sun 17 August 2025 10:00am- 3:30pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Berry Wood, New Forest
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a trip to record a recently under-recorded monad (1km square) in a rather remote part of the Forest. There is ancient wood-pasture, forestry plantation, heathland, some small mires and woodland streams. Details in Autumn 2024 Flora News
Mon 18 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Hatch Warren, SU6148, SU6149
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Tue 19 August 2025
BSBI Recording Recording trip: Chibden Bottom area, SU1710
Leader: Martin Rand. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying an under-recorded monad on the New Forest western commons; mostly heathland with some springs and step mires. Contact Martin for details
Fri 22 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Cole Henley, SU4752, SU4751
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Wed 27 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Ball Hill, SU4163
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Fri 29 August 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Chilbolton, SU3939
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
September 2025
Mon 1 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near East Woodhay, SU3961
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Wed 3 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Bramshill, SU7560
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Fri 5 September 2025 5:30pm- 8:00pm
Hampshire Flora Group Field trip: Cadnam area, New Forest
Leader: Tristan Norton. Plants of grazed commons and wetland.
Mon 8 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Eversley, SU7761
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Wed 10 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Deane, SU5449, SU5549
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Fri 12 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Burghclere, SU4860, SU4861, SU4760
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Mon 15 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Old Alresford, SU5734
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Wed 17 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Old Alresford, SU5935
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Fri 19 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Itchen Abbas, SU5435, SU5535
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Mon 22 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Upton Grey, SU6949
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.
Wed 24 September 2025
BSBI Recording Monad recording near Northington, SU5737, SU5736
Leader: Tony Mundell. This is a personal trip for a limited number of people and you come entirely at your own risk. Surveying under-recorded monads. Contact Tony for details.