Flower of the day

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Artisan

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

I don't see a picture

[metalfish]

Went out for a walk today along the Seven Sisters next to Eastbourne and saw some yellow horned poppy- right on the edge of the cliff with a very long drop so the photo is taken from a distance

[url=http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/showphoto.php?photo=95659][/url

and I eventually found the Pheasants eye, they are very small here coz of the thin soils- only 1 to 2 inches high- and abit small for my camera but I was so pleased to find them, it's the first time I've seen'm in the wild

[Gypsy Orchid]

Originally Posted by metalfish

Went out for a walk today along the Seven Sisters next to Eastbourne and saw some yellow horned poppy- right on the edge of the cliff with a very long drop so the photo is taken from a distance

[url=http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/showphoto.php?photo=95659][/url

and I eventually found the Pheasants eye, they are very small here coz of the thin soils- only 1 to 2 inches high- and abit small for my camera but I was so pleased to find them, it's the first time I've seen'm in the wild

Nice to know the Pheasants eye is still in that area I found it in Friston forrest in 1976 the only time I have ever seen it.

[metalfish]

Friston Forest is right across the road, the field where it's at is on the seaward side of Friston Church, down past Crowlink!

[Pete Collins]

My FotD is this Lesser Stitchwort, my first of the year. It was growing at the tiny Sallowsprings Nature Reserve, Whipsnade, Beds., and there was some of the far more common (round here, anyway) Greater Stitchwort too.

[Jez]

Mine is common Figwort. All the times of walking down the lane into Beaulieu (beautiful) now known as Bewdley I've never come across it before and I'm finding it all over!

[leifus]

Over two days in Purbeck I found these (sorry no photos )

heath groundsel
common-ramping fumitory
pirri-pirri-bur
sea bindweed
southern marsh orchid
changing fmn
birdsfoot clover
pale flax
birdsfoot
hairy birdsfoot trefoil
rough clover
narrow-leaved pepperwort
celery-leaved buttercup
stinking chamomile
bugloss
corn spurrey
common star-of-bethlehem
pale persicaria
burnet rose
heath pearlwort
my favourite flower the BEE ORCHID that I accidentally stumbled across
hairy rock-cress
swine-cress
lesser swine-cress
hairy buttercup

[leifus]

And four days in Wales provided 120 species of wildflower, the best of which were...

lesser-sea spurrey
rock sea spurrey
corn spurrey
birdsfoot
birdsfoot clover
common-ramping fumitory
tree mallow
sun spurge

as well as all the common cliffside species

[treecreeper]

This only deserves inclusion because of where I found it...in the middle of Birkenhead on an abandoned industrial railway track.





It's Orobanche alba. It was a few minute's walk from Prostitute Street (known to the Post Office as Corporation Road) and the smackheads' haunts. It's a good botanical area. Common spotted orchid should be there soon. I'm hoping for bee orchid, which has spread on the Wirral in recent years.

[leifus]

Originally Posted by treecreeper

This only deserves inclusion because of where I found it...in the middle of Birkenhead on an abandoned industrial railway track.





It's Orobanche alba. It was a few minute's walk from Prostitute Street (known to the Post Office as Corporation Road) and the smackheads' haunts. It's a good botanical area. Common spotted orchid should be there soon. I'm hoping for bee orchid, which has spread on the Wirral in recent years.

great find!