What species of nettle is this

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by wildherbalian85

Looking in my herb book now that i know the name of the plant im looking for (ThankYou), i find intersting (appart from the fact you can suck on the flower for it nectar) is that this shouldn't be in flower untill may and yet this photo was taken last week. This odd as there are a few plants that have yet to even start growing which normaly would have by now.

I don't know what part of the country you are in, but up in N Yorks it seems to be around much earlier than that, especially in sheltered places. I take time of flowering with a pinch of salt (now I can hear my blood pressure monitor twitching, that old "S" word)

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by wildherbalian85

Looking in my herb book now that i know the name of the plant im looking for (ThankYou), i find intersting (appart from the fact you can suck on the flower for it nectar) is that this shouldn't be in flower untill may and yet this photo was taken last week. This odd as there are a few plants that have yet to even start growing which normaly would have by now.

Sometimes its best to take the flowering periods in books with a pinch of salt. Iv'e seen White Dead-nettle in flower since the end of March & I'm sure others have seen it before that.

[wildherbalian85]

I dont normaly pay to much attention to flowering periods anyway.. especialy with increasingly mild winters and springs. What is odd though is my hebane has yet germinate, i have yet to see any opium poppies, the bramble seem's to only be comming into leaf now - let alone flowering, and the apple tree at the bottom of our garden only this week has started to flower. Oh and there is still no sign of any woody nightshade

Compared to recent years it would seem like spring has yet to properly spring - though some plants have skipped spring again and gone straight to summer.
Plants are strange things

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

I don't know what part of the country you are in, but up in N Yorks it seems to be around much earlier than that, especially in sheltered places. I take time of flowering with a pinch of salt (now I can hear my blood pressure monitor twitching, that old "S" word)

Im slap bang on the southcoast.

[Hobjob]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Sometimes its best to take the flowering periods in books with a pinch of salt. Iv'e seen White Dead-nettle in flower since the end of March & I'm sure others have seen it before that.

And it can flower late in September if its been cut down earlier