A project to study the flora of dry stone walls in Britain and Ireland

Introduction - What is a dry stone wall? - this is a good place to start.
 

Papers relating to dry stone walls in various parts of the country:

• Dry Stone Wall Flora in Winsley, West Wiltshire - John Presland
• Comparing the Floras of Limestone Dry Stone and Mortared Walls in Winsley, West Wiltshire - John Presland
• The Flora of Walls in the Chew Valley, Mendips - R. M. Payne
• Ecological Report - Lifelines Dry Stone Wall Survey for Mendip Hills AONB - Summary by John Presland
• Dry Stone Walls: A Crumbling Legacy in our Fragile Limestone Landscape (Silverdale, Lancs) - Summary by John Presland
• Two Drystone Walls in Lancashire, an Environmental Appraisal - Mick Walsh
• Some Notes on the Flora of Bute Walls - Angus Hannah
• Observations on the Flora of Wall Habitats on Yell, Shetland -  Leslie Williams
• Is there a limestone dry stone walls community? - John Presland
• Lifelines; The Vital Dry Stone Walls of the Mendip Hills AONB - review by John Presland
• Stone Walls in Woodchester, Gloucestershire - Rachel Hemming
• Defining and Conserving Limestone Dry Stone Wall Communities - John Presland
• Rebuilding a Wall for Nature - John Presland
• The Vascular Flora of Acidic Dry Stone Walls - John Presland
• Trying To Study Bryophytes And Lichens Of Acidic Dry Stone Walls - John Presland

Miscellaneous data - Published references to dry stone wall flora

Dry Stone Wall News - April 2010

A colourful 12-page booklet is available.  This is a valuable guide to conserving the community of plants, lichens and fungi which grow on limestone dry stone walls, and will be useful to anyone involved in professional or volunteer work with these walls.

Gallery pages

• Colonists of limestone dry stone walls In Winsley, West Wiltshire:
  Lichens and Fungi
  Bryophytes
  Ferns and Flowering Plants

• Some colonists of dry stone walls in Argyll

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