A Living Logbook of Plants, Cities & Microhabitats
Plants are everywhere, but the conditions in which they survive can change dramatically from one street, city, and country to another. This website is a growing field logbook documenting the plants I encounter while travelling, with a particular focus on how species interact with the environments created around them.
Rather than simply recording which plants are present, I investigate where they grow, the microhabitats they occupy, the environmental pressures they face, and the adaptations that may allow them to persist there. A plant growing from a shaded wall, for example, experiences a very different combination of light, temperature, water availability and human disturbance from one growing beside a road or inside a managed garden.
For each location, I combine field observations, photography, species identification and environmental information to build a record that can eventually be compared across cities, climates and seasons.
The project also explores how AI and digital tools can support biological fieldwork. AI has assisted me with preliminary species identification, data organisation, pattern detection, mapping and comparison with scientific databases, while observations and conclusions remain grounded in documented field evidence.