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Originally Posted by pammosley  David, No, you`re right 
But I can put it in my photo collection so I know what it is next time I see it  I only count flowers that can be found in the wild.
So you don`t count Frenchay Hospital flowers then   |
The crocuses, aconites and anemones are fine; they've been there years and are spreading on their own, probably going back to before the hospital was built. The Cornelian cherry and daffodils, though - and the Winter Heath that's by the entrance - I couldn't bend my rules enough to allow those a place...
A shame, because a couple of days ago I went to a supposedly "easy" site for Cornelian-cherry and didn't see a thing
Personally I accept anything that's spreading under its own steam, so I will count plants in people's gardens if they've seeded themselves; those are the rules followed by the authors of
Alien Plants of the British Isles, so it's not just me
"Relics of cultivation" are also allowed, so plants that have survived on the sites of abandoned, derelict gardens or old estates are OK, and ones growing in a wild environment that were deliberately introduced. Trees planted in woodland, for forestry, flowers sown along new roads, that sort of thing. But not the shrubs mass-planted on roundabouts and in parks, unless they're reproducing
Of course, really, it's a matter of personal preference - some people do count the trees they find in parks, cemeteries etc, and that new book I've got includes all the foreign trees planted in those sort of places.