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Post by NellyDee on May 28, 2018 15:49:28 GMT
Is this the real colour of the flowers (pink to my eyes)? Meadow Cranesbill haa blue flowers. Yes it was this colour - have I got the wrong plant? I was making an assumption as this has come up where the cranesbill normally appears, so just thought it was a change in colour ops:)
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Post by aeshna5 on May 29, 2018 4:52:20 GMT
Probably Geranium x oxonianum then- a common + vigorous garden escape.
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Post by NellyDee on May 29, 2018 8:36:59 GMT
Yep you are right! I looked it up. I do wonder how plants suddenly appear here. I do not have any of the Geraniums growing in the garden area or the wild areas and the nearest house to me is 1/2 a mile away. This came up in an area that frequently gets flooded where usually there is Bugle, Ragged Robin, meadowsweet, cuckoo flower, meadow cranesbill, up the banks primrose, germander speedwell etc., oh and reeds and sedge.
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Post by ianr on Jun 9, 2018 9:47:06 GMT
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 9, 2018 10:36:13 GMT
Lovely photos, Ian but your orchids are certainly not Pyramidal but some sort of Dactylorhiza marsh orchids.
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Post by ianr on Jun 10, 2018 8:19:07 GMT
Lovely photos, Ian but your orchids are certainly not Pyramidal but some sort of Dactylorhiza marsh orchids. Thanks for that aeshna5, may account for the variety of pinks and purples plus the only orchids mentioned on the boards were pyramidal and southern marsh ian
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 10, 2018 20:14:07 GMT
Beautiful photos as always, Ian!
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 12, 2018 19:48:35 GMT
My wildflower of the day is the mallow that's come up from between the paving stones and has decided to sprawl across the path.
I had one come up in a pot several years ago, and it seems to have seeded in some strange places- last year one sprang up out of the drain. I try scattering the seeds in more sensible places, like the area where I've planted comfrey, but it persists in trying to grow in what must be (for a plant) uncomfortable areas. I do love the purple flowers, so I just let it do as it pleases. It seems to be healthy enough.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 24, 2018 4:17:59 GMT
One of my favourites- Bog Asphodel flowering in the mire at Chobham Common.
Bell + Cross-leaved Heath now out + also of note Heath Bedstraw + Slender St. John's-wort.
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Post by ianr on Jun 24, 2018 8:12:08 GMT
This was the outstanding colour amongst the grasses lots of it too ian knapweed by ian robinson, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 24, 2018 17:40:40 GMT
They do look good, Ian. I noticed quite a lot coming out in my local meadows today + lots of bright yellow Meadow Vetchling, My FOTD is the juxtaposition of white Hedge Bedstraw growing beside yellow Lady's Bedstraw. surprisingly didn't see the hybrid of the two!
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Post by NellyDee on Jun 25, 2018 9:33:02 GMT
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Post by ianr on Jun 25, 2018 12:31:44 GMT
Flowers today some I know! some I don't on the old station wall there were a few ferns maidenhair and wall rue plus others a lot of biting stonecrop, bindweed and field bindweed evening primrose, white tansey whole banks of it, lambs ear just starting to flower. Seemed to be mainly yellow flowers. Oh and goats beard another one I can't resist Many more too ian white tansy by ian robinson, on Flickr by ian robinson, on Flickr by ian robinson, on Flickr goats beard by ian robinson, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 25, 2018 16:29:50 GMT
Hi Ian, the first isn't Tansy (which has yellow flowers) but a double form of Feverfew. One below is Wild Liquorice + below that looks like Lesser Trefoil.
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Post by ianr on Jun 26, 2018 8:06:11 GMT
Thanks again aeshna5 I do appreciate your input and I do look online, guess I don't find the right one ian
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