Wildflowers

[french frank]

Interesting. The Common goes back to the original medieval common, and now has one main area (about 12 acres) and several nearby green spaces which escaped the Victorian building frenzy. Today I was helping with the monthly litter-pick and went to one of the smaller areas that I hadn't been to before and was pleased to see several species that I'd never found on the main Common, even though it's only two or three hundred meters away. Nothing unusual just not on my usual patch:

Lady's bedstraw
Marjoram
Field scabious
Bird's foot trefoil
Meadow cranesbill
Lords and Ladies

The Autumn hawkbit has taken over from the Whilte clover as the predominant species on the main area.

[teamsaint]

Interesting. The Common goes back to the original medieval common, and now has one main area (about 12 acres) and several nearby green spaces which escaped the Victorian building frenzy. Today I was helping with the monthly litter-pick and went to one of the smaller areas that I hadn't been to before and was pleased to see several species that I'd never found on the main Common, even though it's only two or three hundred meters away. Nothing unusual just not on my usual patch:

Lady's bedstraw
Marjoram
Field scabious
Bird's foot trefoil
Meadow cranesbill
Lords and Ladies

The Autumn hawkbit has taken over from the Whilte clover as the predominant species on the main area.

Interesting. No False Baby’s Breath there ?!
any road up, we were at Thomas Hardy’s houses today, They are both NT , by timed ticket but everybody else seems to have opted for the beach , so we had very good personal tours of both places. Lovely gardens, esp the cottage, but didn’t spot anything unusual by way of wildflowers, I think.

[Old Grumpy]

Interesting. The Common goes back to the original medieval common, and now has one main area (about 12 acres) and several nearby green spaces which escaped the Victorian building frenzy. Today I was helping with the monthly litter-pick and went to one of the smaller areas that I hadn't been to before and was pleased to see several species that I'd never found on the main Common, even though it's only two or three hundred meters away. Nothing unusual just not on my usual patch:

Lady's bedstraw
Marjoram
Field scabious
Bird's foot trefoil
Meadow cranesbill
Lords and Ladies

The Autumn hawkbit has taken over from the Whilte clover as the predominant species on the main area.

Sir Jacob would never use acres and meters (sic) on the same parchment!

[french frank]

Sir Jacob would never use acres and meters (sic) on the same parchment!

And far be it from me: 12 acres and two or three hundred yards.

[I'm convinced that it's only a matter of time before there's no such thing as 'British English' either, just 'English' (= US English). I frequently have to type 'colors' and it already seems odd to refer to 'Favourites' (i.e. bookmarks). But 'meters' - I wonder if they have another word for a meter? Like faucet for tap.]

Anyway, getting back to the flowers, the lady's bedstraw (Galium verum) is the only one that I'd actually never noticed before anywhere, though it's pretty ordinary. There are some 50 species of Galium found in Britain, including goosegrass/cleavers.

[vinteuil]

... wonderful spreads of bluebells beneath the trees on the Stokenchurch - Christmas Common road. A joy : I think spring is really here.

Many many red kites benefiting from the thermals over Watlington Hill...

[french frank]

... wonderful spreads of bluebells beneath the trees on the Stokenchurch - Christmas Common road. A joy : I think spring is really here.

How cheering! Our Common is surrounded by so many residential gardens that all the bluebells here are Spanish or hybrids now. Plus there is a growing number of patches of Three-cornered garlic, an Invasive Non-Native. Curiously, people are allowed to buy and grow it in their gardens, but to allow it to escape into 'the wild' (defined as a 'general open space') is an offence. Not that it appears to be enforced/enforceable and it's very hard to grub out all the bulbs.

Yes, spring is here and it's weed-time - on the Common that designates native wildflowers, like several sorts of cranesbill, deadnettles, garlic mustard and meadow buttercups; and cuckoo flowers are now quite plentiful.

[gradus]

We have a tremendous number of Three-cornered garlic plants, rather like white bluebells and a devil of a job to get rid of.

[french frank]

We have a tremendous number of Three-cornered garlic plants, rather like white bluebells and a devil of a job to get rid of.

"In GB it is listed on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act, which makes it an offence to deliberately introduce it. However, it is a popular plant that is widely naturalised on waysides and road verges, where it has the potential to displace native species where invasive."

https://www.nonnativespecies.org/non-native-species/information-portal/view/131

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/609/2010-04-06