Quite a long walk from Malletsheugh to Darnley Mill allowed me to explore some of the fragments of countryside still left following the recent expansion of the western suburbs of Newton Mearns. I was surprised to find lots of farmland and hedgerow plants including Field Scabious, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Bush Vetch and Yarrow. Blackthorn, Beech and Oak trees in the retained hedgerows carried some interesting larval mines and galls.