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17-05-2009, 10:52 PM
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Blimey Tiggrx, that was quick! I post the question at 10:43 and you give me the answer at 10:44 - very impressive!
And thanks very much!
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18-05-2009, 08:26 AM
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The Red Campion is extremely impressive this year...luxuriant and makes really luxuriant patches of colour in the hedgerows
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18-05-2009, 05:11 PM
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today I got pink purslane and white campion |
18-05-2009, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17  today I got pink purslane and white campion | i haven't got pink purslane yet! 
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18-05-2009, 07:09 PM
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AMAZING DAY  (16th) Monkey orchids were the highlight...   
followed very closely by this lady orchid...   
the hybrid between the two... 
then common twayblade... 
the rare downy-fruited sedge... 
Other species recorded were black bryony, chalk milkwort, rough chervil, common gromwell and wild parsnip 
brilliant day (and as you can see I'm still getting used to the new lens - although these photos look less sharp than the ones on my computer )
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18-05-2009, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by blacknest The Red Campion is extremely impressive this year...luxuriant and makes really luxuriant patches of colour in the hedgerows | I would agree with that Blacknest, and there seems to be a lot of it about too. Here's some from Minsmere yesterday... 
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19-05-2009, 08:44 AM
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The wild yellow flag irises by my pond are in full flower for the first time today...very spectacular. Sometimes you get a lot of "plant" for relatively little "flower" but not so this year.
As British wild flowers go is there a lovelier sight? (Sorry this is rhetorical...not an attempt to start a pointless debate!!!! )
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19-05-2009, 06:56 PM
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I forgot to mention....on the way to seeing the orchids I saw spiked star-of-bethlehem (in it's known area)
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19-05-2009, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by leifus I forgot to mention....on the way to seeing the orchids I saw spiked star-of-bethlehem (in it's known area) | Yes you did text me when you were stuck on the M4 in a traffic jam and while I was washing dishes  |
19-05-2009, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 Yes you did text me when you were stuck on the M4 in a traffic jam and while I was washing dishes | hahahaha it was great! I was half asleep and then i was like WHOAH
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19-05-2009, 11:00 PM
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So what shall it be? Monkey, white, lady, common, tway, hybrid....
na not for me!
Plant of the day is the unexpected small toadflax found growing on platform 3!
Never seen this before! |
20-05-2009, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by IanS So what shall it be? Monkey, white, lady, common, tway, hybrid....
na not for me!
Plant of the day is the unexpected small toadflax found growing on platform 3!
Never seen this before! | Its surprising when you find things I went on a day out to a glass museum and I was dissappointed due to a lack of plants. How wrong was I  It was near a canal and I got Trifid Bur Marigold and Small Toadflax was on the stony bits next to the mill |
20-05-2009, 09:14 PM
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I'm very happy with the bur chervil I found today but my flower of the day is a common star-of-bethlehem that I stumbled across in the middle of a wood
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20-05-2009, 11:39 PM
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I'm going to be naughty and go fully non-wild: the clipped cotoneaster hedges at work are a solid mass of fragrant little flowers.
And never have I seens so many bees , (nor so many different types of bees) all feeding voraciously.
My lavender was close though...covered in dozens of rather cute, compact bumble bees with a white tail and yellow band (= Bombus lucorum ??? guessing wildly here need to look into this properly ,doing it from memory is no good)
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21-05-2009, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by leifus I'm very happy with the bur chervil I found today but my flower of the day is a common star-of-bethlehem that I stumbled across in the middle of a wood | Your getting luckier by the day!! |
21-05-2009, 09:03 AM
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Last nights flower of the day was Fly orchid! Finally found them
Also found birdsnest orchid in the same wood... |
21-05-2009, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by leifus I'm very happy with the bur chervil I found today but my flower of the day is a common star-of-bethlehem that I stumbled across in the middle of a wood | Congratulations on finding a Star-of-Bethlehem leifus!
I saw my first Columbine and Water Crowfoot yesterday, but I think my FotD was this Yellow Iris.  |
21-05-2009, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 Your getting luckier by the day!! | I know and it bodes well for an awesome year seen it yet? Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete Collins Congratulations on finding a Star-of-Bethlehem leifus!
I saw my first Columbine and Water Crowfoot yesterday, but I think my FotD was this Yellow Iris. | thanks - a lovely flower isn't it?
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21-05-2009, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by leifus I know and it bodes well for an awesome year seen it yet?
thanks - a lovely flower isn't it? | just a few more days the suspense is killing me  |
22-05-2009, 03:10 PM
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I'll post my sightings without my camera on this thread. I've had a fair bit today - white campion
- goats beard
- garden lupin
- garden radish
- lesser trefoil
- columbine
- common figwort
- ground elder
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22-05-2009, 07:31 PM
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first wall lettuce of 09 today
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22-05-2009, 10:32 PM
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Im off to Purbeck for a couple of days and then to wales for a week so I won't be on WAB for a while  but look forward to plenty of ID's and sightings later!
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23-05-2009, 04:39 PM
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My Flower of the Day is Grass Vetchling, only the second time I've seen it. It was south of St Albans, on a footpath beside the M25!
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23-05-2009, 05:12 PM
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My first Common Birdsfoot of the year in flower on the Forest this morning. Narrow-leaved Lungwort flowers have gone over but I did see some Wild Gladioli leaves poking up. Another few weeks & they will be flowering. |
23-05-2009, 06:18 PM
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Whilst Dad and I were gardening today, I found this common spotted orchid sharing pot space with a Cordaline
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