Strange Plant Locations Thread

[KeenTeen17]

This is a thread to post images of where you have seen plants growing in weird places. Like on top of a building or pylon etc. To get the ball rolling. This was in another thread which prompted this one!

Originally Posted by BarbaraEmma

We've watched this little Rowan tree struggle to survive for a few years now.At the moment it's looking quite healthy but some years it just about hangs on in there.
Wonderful things plants ,if you want one to grow in your garden, you have to nurture it carefully and then you find some little free spirit doing its' own thing at the top of a pylon.
I expect lots of you have noticed trees growing in odd places.
Barbara

[Lancashire Lad]

This tree is trying to grow, (and making a pretty good job of it), from between the stones of the chimney ruins at Sawley Abbey (near Clitheroe).

You can just see the top of the tree in the first photo, with the second photo looking directly up the chimney.



Regards
Mike.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

This tree is trying to grow, (and making a pretty good job of it), from between the stones of the chimney ruins at Sawley Abbey (near Clitheroe).

You can just see the top of the tree in the first photo, with the second photo looking directly up the chimney.



Regards
Mike.

Thats great Mike. exactly the stuff we're after
I once found a Nemesia flowering in Winter on a roof

[KeenTeen17]

Found a lump of grass growing out of a fence post.

And a nettle growing out of the handle of an ammo box being used as a geocache.

[loripo]

This little tree is growing and flowering in the debris on a narrow ledge on the Thames river wall.

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by loripo

This little tree is growing and flowering in the debris on a narrow ledge on the Thames river wall.

I noticed on Sunday a small Black Mulberry + a larger Swedish Whitebeam growing on Hammersmith Bridge- I suspect derived from Starling droppings as these birds often perch above. There used to be a Cape Gooseberry for some years, but appears to have now gone. Alos lots of Campanula poscharskyana + a couple of Parthenocissus (bird poo derived again).