Having settled into our base at Doniford (about 10 miles along the coast from Minehead), I quickly added another unusual garden escape to the list;
Lesser Mexican Stonecrop (
Sedum confusum), although this turned out to be fairly frequent in the area on roadbanks and old graves etc.
For the rest of the afternoon, we headed into the neighbouring town of Watchet for some urban plant-hunting; a seaside town with plenty of old walls, a paper-mill and railway, this proved a good area for a range of escapes. Especially pavement weeds;
Garden Viola (
Viola x hybrida),
Garden Lobelia (
Lobelia erinus) &
Seaside Daisy (
Erigeron glaucus) were especially frequent, a quite different range to that I'm used to in Bristol
(
Seaside Daisy, Erigeron glaucus)
A building site had been colonised by lots of
Snapdragon (
Antirrhinum majus) plants, in a range of colours, the more unusual (for me)
Garden Tobacco Plant (
Nicotiana x sanderae) & a
Japanese Spiraea (
Spiraea japonica) - presumably a relic of whatever was on the site before, I'm not sure if its' yellowing leaves are a cultivar or a result of the dry conditions
(
Garden Tobacco Plant, Nicotiana x sanderae)
(
Japanese Spiraea, Spiraea japonica)
Above the railway station I was pleased to find
Escallonia (
Escallonia macrantha) &
Hairy Vetchling (
Lathyrus hirsutus), as well as an
Elaeagnus I've yet to name...
(
Escallonia, Escallonia macrantha)
(
Hairy Vetchling, Lathyrus hirsutus)
But, the day's star find was without a doubt this beautiful pavement-crack weed which I've since identified as
Mallow-leaved Bindweed (
Convolvulus althaeoides)
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Mallow-leaved Bindweed, Convolvulus althaeoides