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| | Welcome to our newest member, Penali18 | |  | Posted 12-08-2008 at 12:55 PM by leifus Updated 12-08-2008 at 04:31 PM by leifus Common marsh is a water meadow on the edge of the River Test in hampshire.
Flowers thrive on the silt and wet soil on the side of the river such as monkeyflowers in good number, fool’s water-cress, purple loosestrife, blue-water speedwell, water mint, pink-water speedwell, gipsywort, yellow loosestrife and marsh woundwort. On the river grew common water-starwort, common and greater duckweed and water-cress. And finally, the water meadows brought marsh ragwort, common comfrey and lots of... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 09-08-2008 at 01:12 PM by leifus Langford Lakes is a nature reserve run by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and is home to many butterflies, dragonflies, wetland wildflowers and especially birds. The reserve is made up of paths that run out into the huge lakes that give it its name.
We went in hope of seeing plenty of dragonflies and wildflowers, possibly to add to our year lists and we certainly did.
I'll start with the birds because the Trust have worked hard to attract plenty of different and interesting species to... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 09-08-2008 at 12:50 PM by leifus The top field was being cut today so I went out and rescued some of the seeds to plant in my wildflower meadow. Now hopefully next year we will have smooth tare, common vetch, goat's-beard, common spotted orchids, blue fleabane, common broomrape, common fleabane, wild basil, red bartsia and rosebay willowherb all growing in the meadow. | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 09-08-2008 at 12:45 PM by leifus Round of the garden this morning brought 4 butterflies: meadow browns, large whites, gatekeepers and an essex skipper which I had great views of because it stayed around for ages!
Dark bush crickets sung from the long grass and I occasionally spotted one spying on me from behind a leaf. Also, there was a sloe bug feeding on some hogweed.
Flowers growing on an abandoned vegetable patch included groundsel, scarlet pimpernel, white campion, great mullein, smooth sow-thistles and some... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 05-08-2008 at 12:16 PM by leifus We followed a river while walking across fields before walking up the hill to follow the Leeds/Liverpool canal. W estarted by walking past an arable field where I found groundsel, fat-hen, redshank and knotgrass as well as creeping yellow-cress. By the river, indian balsam grew everywhere, but there was enough room for mugwort and water figwort and rough hawkbit and fox and cubs in the grass. We then moved into a field full of creeping thistles and were suprised to find at least 20 small tortoiseshells... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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