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27-05-2009, 07:11 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Alice Holt Forest, near Farnham
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
In grotty Brussels yesterday : so these are bank holiday Monday ones:
First common spotted orchid ( in a spot I've not seen them before: they're spreading slowly despite depredations of Forewstry Commission's road maintenance teams: 2 steps forward, 1 step back)
But FotD was this: bud from a HUGE dog rose ( Rosa canina) which rambles 30 feet up into the branches of a nearby oak .First I've seen here. 
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28-05-2009, 04:05 PM
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
I saw a few 'firsts' of the year today - Scarlet Pimpernel, Field Pansy, Woody Nightshade, Cut-leaved Cranesbill. |
28-05-2009, 08:05 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ashburton Dartmoor Devon
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
Butterfly Orchid today and Spotted O just coming out. Also xexexexexexexe Balm. (Not allowed first name)
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28-05-2009, 09:08 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Edge of the New Forest, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
Pale Butterwort flowering on the New Forest now (sorry for the bad pic, it was getting dark & I was sinking). 
I was also in the one spot in the Forest that has Common Butterwort. (the colour didn't come out right though).  
Plenty of Sundews & the Bog Asphodels are starting to poke their heads up. |
28-05-2009, 09:19 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Norwich and Oxford!
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
Ah yes, I saw loads of common butterworts in a Suffolk fen the other day. Very pretty. We don't get the other one round here, will have to wait till the summer when I'm next down your way again! |
28-05-2009, 09:23 PM
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
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Originally Posted by Gypsy Orchid 
Butterfly Orchid today and Spotted O just coming out. Also xexexexexexexe Balm. (Not allowed first name) | You had me wondering what this plant could possibly be, but I know now! Nice find. |
28-05-2009, 09:44 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ashburton Dartmoor Devon
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
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Originally Posted by Deer Stalker Pale Butterwort flowering on the New Forest now (sorry for the bad pic, it was getting dark & I was sinking).
I was also in the one spot in the Forest that has Common Butterwort. (the colour didn't come out right though).
Plenty of Sundews & the Bog Asphodels are starting to poke their heads up. | Nice to see photos of Butterwort Deer Stalker One of my must find plants I have yet to find them on Dartmoor are they fairly common in the bogs in New Forrest and how long is there flowering period? |
28-05-2009, 09:46 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somerset, UK
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
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Originally Posted by Phoebe | I love wallflowers. They have the most glorious scent on a warm day 
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28-05-2009, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Gypsy Orchid Nice to see photos of Butterwort Deer Stalker One of my must find plants I have yet to find them on Dartmoor are they fairly common in the bogs in New Forrest and how long is there flowering period? | Cheers Gypsy Orchid.
There is only one known spot on the Forest for Common Butterwort & I think they flower up to about August.
Pale Butterwort is locally common on most of the bogs on the Forest & is in flower until about September. |
29-05-2009, 04:08 PM
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| | | Re: Flower of the day
Thats probably one if the nicest photographs i have EVER taken...LOL....*sigh* 
the dead one in the background? erm...yeah...thats..erm.....representative of the fickle standards of nature, as one flower is preparing to bloom, another is past its necessary requirements, and the cycle continues, lol
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