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08-05-2010, 03:28 PM
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I've managed to get the photo into images but I've made a mess of it - managed to put it in twice, can one be deleted?
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08-05-2010, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete Collins  Welcome to WAB, jayvee64! Glad to hear you like the photos on this site.
Wildflowers are wonderful, aren't they? I only got interested in them about four years ago, now I wonder how on earth I used to go for long walks in the countryside and not notice the flowers at all. | Me too! Ox-eye Daisy today and Herb Bennet. First of the year. |
08-05-2010, 07:32 PM
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my 100th wildflower species of the year today with Field Mouse-ear ( Cerastium arvense)  
also found my first 2010 kidney vetch
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08-05-2010, 08:02 PM
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Yellow archangel for me. Loads of it growing amongst the bluebells in Hurst Wood today...  
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09-05-2010, 01:31 PM
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Nice photos of Yellow Archangel, Dave. There's lots of it around here in the Chilterns at the moment, including some on the small 'common' just across the road from where I live. A very pretty flower when you look at it close up.
I'll go for Silverweed as my Flower of the Day, as I saw my first flowering one of the year this morning at Pitstone Hill, Bucks. Other firsts for the year were Birdsfoot Trefoil and Milkwort (Common Milkwort, I think - the light was too bad to get photos for identifying it properly).
Near Wigginton, I came across a nice verge by a lane which I remember from previous years as being quite colourful with wildflowers. This morning there were Bluebells, Yellow Archangel, Greater Stitchwort, Herb Robert, Goldilocks Buttercup and White Deadnettle.
Elswhere there were still Wood Anemones and Lesser Celandine about, but obviously past their best. |
09-05-2010, 02:44 PM
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Adder's Tongue Fern and another site with at least 22 Early Purple Orchids in the New Forest today. |
09-05-2010, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Claxton Adder's Tongue Fern and another site with at least 22 Early Purple Orchids in the New Forest today. | Sounds like we may have been at the same site Jason.
Had a few extra hours to myself this morning as the girlfriend went to the car boot so from first light 'till 10.30 I got round a few sites on the New Forest & found Marsh Violet in flower, Beech Fern coming up, New Forest Crowfoot (restricted to the New Forest), Water Violet, Mossy Stonecrop, Early Purple Orchids, Hampshire Purslane (pretty much restricted to the New Forest), & a couple of hundred leaves of the Wild Gladiolus (restricted to the New Forest) coming up.
It was an overcast morning so the pics are none too good.
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09-05-2010, 07:18 PM
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Impressive early purple spikes there! I happened across 6 of these today, making that my flower of the day
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09-05-2010, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete Collins Nice photos of Yellow Archangel, Dave. | Thanks Pete!
Cuckoo fower for me today. I know lots of people have been reporting it for quite a while on this thread but I saw my first outside Island Mere hide at Minsmere today.
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