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Dean Hill Down, Wilts
Posted 07-09-2008 at 03:22 PM by leifus
This is the place I am going to do a study on (like the with Top Field) next year. It will be great: a rich chalk grassland/scrub four times the size of the Field with a huge butterfly population and instead of pyramidal orchids there are bee orchids and instead of common centaury there will be yellow-wort and autumn gentians!! I…can’t…wait!!!! 
Anyway, a nice surprise when we pulled into the car park and saw a clump of spearmint and a couple of dark mulleins! Over the hill where the scrub/grassland is I found lots of old yellow-wort, blue fleabane, hawkweed and bristly oxtongues, eyebright and wild parsnip. I also found one blackening waxcap fungus growing in the short grass.
Back through the woods there was wall-lettuce and lots of dewberry. Then, finally, I went into a steep field full of harebells where I discovered hundreds of autumn gentians (most had already gone over), the highest of which was 18cm.
FLOWER OF THE DAY: Dark mullein
FUNGI OF THE DAY: Blackening waxcap
Anyway, a nice surprise when we pulled into the car park and saw a clump of spearmint and a couple of dark mulleins! Over the hill where the scrub/grassland is I found lots of old yellow-wort, blue fleabane, hawkweed and bristly oxtongues, eyebright and wild parsnip. I also found one blackening waxcap fungus growing in the short grass.
Back through the woods there was wall-lettuce and lots of dewberry. Then, finally, I went into a steep field full of harebells where I discovered hundreds of autumn gentians (most had already gone over), the highest of which was 18cm.
FLOWER OF THE DAY: Dark mullein
FUNGI OF THE DAY: Blackening waxcap
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