Ferns and Stinging Flowers of Scotland

Jenny and Annie explore some folklore around a couple of the most common plants of the Scottish landscape. We go out into the wilds of Scotland and have a think about the plants we’re treading on along the way.

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This is part of the Radical Mountain Women, funded by the Royal Society of Literature. Some of the music you heard in this episode was beautifully played by Nicky Murray and Chloe Rodgers.

Sources:

Articles from the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal (1903), Dundee Courier (1926), Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette (1905).

Oral history reference numbers 75696, 41976, 33367, 2750, 60651 from www.tobarandualchais.co.uk. 

Chambers, Robert., Popular Rhymes of Scotland, W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1870.

Wrightham, Mark., & Kempe, Nick, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 2019.