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East Soar, South Devon. National Trust event: Organic Farming and Conservation.

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South East of England. South East Marine Week - a host of marine activities to help save our threatened marine wildlife and celebrate the UK's magnificent sea plants and animals.
Tongue, W. Sutherland. BSBI four day field meeting to look at critical taxa on the north coast with the emphasis on diversity and taxonomic problems in Euphrasia and with the opportunity to see some of the rich flora of the area.
Lough Funshinagh, Co. Roscommon. BSBI outing torecord the flora associated with Lough Funshinagh turlough.
Rievaulx Terrace & Temples, Yorkshire. National Trust walk - discover more about the summertime wildflowers at Rievaulx Terrace.
Salisbury Plain Training Area, Salisbury. BSBI field meeting: visit some of the rich and varied habitats of the military training area. The first day will be spent exploring chalk grasslands in the east where a range of plants such as Dianthus deltoides and Orobanche elatior should be in flower. In addition, we will visit a number of arable sites to look for Galeopsis angustifolia and Valerianella dentata. The morning of the second day will be spent in the west where the largest UK population of Cirsium tuberosum is found.
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Hartley Fold Farm, Hartley, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust visit to the wetland area of the John Strutt Conservation Foundation.
Foulshaw Moss, Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust walk around south-Cumbria's largest single peat bog to hear about lowland raised mire ecology and how the Trust is carrying out the first attempt in the country to restore a completely afforested mire.
Benacre NNR, Suffolk. English Nature guided walk - reedbeds, saline lagoons and shingle beach, as well as woodlands and grass heath on the higher ground.
Cavenham Heath NNR, Suffolk. English Nature guided walk - see its wild plants and animals and to find out how it got its name.
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Ouse Washes and Nene Washes, Cambridgeshire. BSBI two-day field meeting: focussing on ditches and drains of the Fens, tackling the identification of aquatic and marginal plants.
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South Dalton Church, Yorkshire. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust lichen meeting. Old buildings and gravestones are often the best places to find good numbers of lichens.
Holme Fell, Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust meeting - Heather and newts, pond dipping and surprises.
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Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR. English Nature guided walk.
Crickley Hall Country Park, Gloucestershire. Wild Flower Society Early Stagers walk - see all the thistles from Carline to Woolly, as well as Broad-leaved Helleborine.
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Dorothy Farrers Spring Wood, Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust meeting - guided walk.
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Craig Fawr SSSI and Ffrith Sand Dunes, Prestatyn, Flintshire. BSBI field meeting: morning visit to Craig Fawr SSSI to look at some of the special plants which grow in this limestone habitat; afternoon visit will be made to a nearby coastal habitat, the remnant sand dunes and dune grassland at Ffrith.
Thorncombe Wood, Dorset. English Nature guided walk: Tomorrow's Heathland Heritage.
Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. BSBI two-day field meeting: the flora of grasslands, scrub and lakeshore.
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Corfe Castle, Dorset. National Trust walk - Butterflies and Flowers on the Purbeck Ridge.
Castle Ward, Down. National Trust walk - Flora & Fauna of Castle Ward.
Smardale, Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust open day - activities for all the family from geology to butterflies, children's trails and lots more.
Lantivet Bay, Cornwall. Cornwall Wildlife Trust guided walk - coastal flowers, resident and migrant butterflies.
Murlough Nature Reserve, Down. National Trust walk - news on the work and wildlife of the heathland project.
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Watersmeet, Devon. National Trust walk - woodland management and the wealth of woodland flora.
Various Lochs, Kircudbrights. BSBI three-day field meeting: to follow up the recent discovery of Hydrilla and to search for this interesting plant in other sites.
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Trelissick, Feock, Truro, Cornwall. Cornwall Wildlife Trust guided walk - walk around Trelissick Woods taking in the fantastic views and historic landscape of the area.
The Lizard, Cornwall. Cornwall Wildlife Trust photographic meeting - flowers and dragonflies. Bring camera, tripod, lunch etc.

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Lower Treloan and Pendower area, Cornwall. Botanical Cornwall Group meeting to see large population of Cyperus longus (covering about 1 ½acres), and coastal species including Rumex rupestris.
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