Target Plants for Next Year

[KeenTeen17]

What are your top target plants for next year?

mine are:
henbane
bog orchid
alpine enchanters nightshade
marsh gentian
lindisfarne helleborine
coral root orchid
birds nest orchid
burnt orchid

[Tony O-P.]

What do you mean by target plants? Plants you want to buy for your garden or plants you want to see in the wild? Cheers, Tony.

[Hedge Witch]

Henbane seems to be mysterious and elusive, I'd be happy with stumbling across that one.

[davidbr]

Originally Posted by Tony O-P.

What do you mean by target plants? Plants you want to buy for your garden or plants you want to see in the wild? Cheers, Tony.

Plants he wants to see in the wild, at least that's what I assume he means - anyway you'd have a hard job growing most of that list in your garden

My main aim for 2009 is to take my list of UK plants photographed in the wild (currently 809 with today's Hebe x lewisii) above 1500 and possibly have a good go for 2,000 (though I've come to appreciate that's tougher than it might have seemed...)

I'm not so much targeting specific species, more sites & habitats; Warley Place, Essex in late February is a definite, where I'll hope to add around 30 species of unusual spring bulbs, and I'm also determined to fix up a trip to Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel when the Wild Peony is in flower. Then I'm intending to go to the Scilly Isles in June, when I ought to be able to find a vast range of introduced plants in, for many of them, their only UK site; plus a few rare natives, Dwarf Pansy, Shore Dock etc.

The London area (Ham River Lands, Mudchute Park and the River Thames towpath, plus some of the cemeteries) will also warrant several visits (doesn't sound too difficult to cover, from the accounts I've read of WFS field meetings) and I especially want to go to Ham House to see Skirret (Sium sisarum), an old culinary herb that apparently grows nowhere else now. The other area I'll no doubt get to at some point in early June, either before or after Scilly, is the Norfolk/Suffolk Breckland - I've been there as a birder with a passing interest in botany and seen what I thought was a good range of plants, but reading what's actually there I can see I ought to have opened my eyes more

[KeenTeen17]

have you photographed the western st pauls wort in Warrington?

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

What are your top target plants for next year?

mine are:
henbane
bog orchid
alpine enchanters nightshade
marsh gentian
lindisfarne helleborine
coral root orchid
birds nest orchid
burnt orchid

Burnt Tip Orchid is a bogey one for me, so that would be good to get next year. I have heard of a locality near Aysgarth Falls in the Yorkshire Dales, so hope to check that out. Dark Red Helleborine is another. It occurs at a place I go a lot, Gait Barrows, but as yet, I have not been at the right time of year.
It is such a good feeling when you pick a target species and finally catch up with it. Last year, my target was Mountain Avens, but it had to be in the Pennines. I was thrilled when I finally found it in a lovely spot in the Yorkshire Dales.

Regards, Chris

[Gypsy Orchid]

Small TongueOrchid Serapias parviflora at Rame head in Cornwal
Bog Orchid Wild Gladioli and Marsh gentian in New Forest

[leifus]

I've seen bog orchids 13 of them

I want to take my orchid tally from 12 this year to 24 next year which will be a challenge but I shall persevere

I'd say that the flower I most want to see next year would be the fly orchid - an elusive gem of the country

[Lancashire Lad]

I'm not that concerned with target species (but I do keep a checklist of what I have seen). I'm just happy to be out in the wild, visiting places familiar and not so familiar - as often as I get the chance, and am pleased with whatever happens to be around to photograph at each location. One thing that does bug me, is when I find evidence of plants having been dug up & removed - which I have seen on several occasions this year.

Regards
Mike.

[Poirot]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

What are your top target plants for next year?

mine are:
henbane
bog orchid
alpine enchanters nightshade
marsh gentian
lindisfarne helleborine
coral root orchid
birds nest orchid
burnt orchid

Aiming very high there good luck