We are preparing a new Flora of Staffordshire. Whilst searching through old literature, we have come across S. Dickenson's long alphabetical list :"A...
Hi, you could try checking out the following site: http://www.ipni.org/index.html for searching plant names. For example it lists Cistis anglicus Linn. as a...
I can do a few of these. The Confervas are Algae, which no doubt have different names currently. Equisetum limosum is the modern E. fluviatile. Juncus...
Still here. Concentrating on desk work at the moment. Some of it to do with a book of drawings on alien plants in the British Isles (ie escapes, naturalised...
Would love to have a copy of the Alien plant book when published. Fallopia japonica ( my pet weed) has come to a plateau in its spread on the Isle of Arran. ...
Kate Hayward
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Jan 22, 2003 10:06 pm
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Hello, At Widewater Lagoon, the gravel area with Sea Thrift and various Stonecrops is being dug up. The top soil is meant to be returned to the original, but ...
Hi Kate, I seem to remember you mentioning F. japonica before. It won't be in the new book as it is already drawn in the BSBI Docks & Knotweeds handbook (as...
Saw some snowdrops in flower only today, not a million miles from you in a garden in Maldon, Essex. Phil ... From: "Kate Hayward" <Kate.Hayward@...>...
Phil Luke
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Jan 23, 2003 6:15 pm
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Any illustrated book with drawings of British aliens will be top priority with me!! Gordon. ... From: Ian Thirlwell To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Hello Phil, Just found mine!! they are just about coming up at last! Will Look in Maldon in the next few days. Kate ... From: "Phil Luke"...
Kate Hayward
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Jan 23, 2003 7:27 pm
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Gordon, that's good to hear. A short piece of background to the project: it was something that David McClintock had been working on for many years but ...
The snowdrops in my north facing garden in Sussex were flowering on Saturday 18th January when I returned home from a holiday. I also saw (and smelled!)...
helen proctor
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Jan 23, 2003 9:12 pm
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A two week tour to the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa was really well timed to avoid the cold snap at home in early January! I was intrigued to find...
helen proctor
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Jan 23, 2003 9:13 pm
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Sorry that Essex has not got its snowdrops yet. In Assynt (the top left-hand corner) ours are several inches high, but then we have not had a very cold ...
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Jan 23, 2003 9:29 pm
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Cheers Malcolm and everyone else. I'm thoroughly pleased you're all out there still. Glad it has not gone dead. For a brief moment I felt a void like Dave...
Peter Jones
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Jan 23, 2003 10:18 pm
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Dear List members, ... Just to add to this debate, I am writing from Harare in Zimbabwe where S. columbaria is a common plant; it flowers during the hot dry...
mahyde
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Jan 24, 2003 6:53 am
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... If you're including lower plants: Some years ago I was surprised to find the liverwort Targionia hypophylla (rare in UK) flourishing in the cracks in the...
Ian, I will certainly buy your ...book of drawings on alien plants in the British Isles (ie escapes, naturalised etc) with Eric Clement & Delf Smith. And ...
Brian, I'll pass the good news on to the others. I know Eric is pleased at the interest he has had from other quarters too. Many thanks. Ian ... From:...
Ian, I didn't mention it but I raised a large number of alien plants in my garden here specially for David M. some 25 years ago and I'm delighted that things...
No, of course it won't be the same afterwards just because of having had its topsoil returned to someone's idea of how it was before, and even that only an...
Hello, This may prove interesting. The particular gravel and alluvial sediment is salty through seawater percolation and brackish water flooding and not all ...
Hello everyone, I hope our list owner won't mind me addressing the list for the following item, but I consider that it is indirectly connected to what we are...
Hello, What do you think would happen if you put cattle on a Chalkhill Blue habitat? (which includes scrub and rabbit-cropped never ploughed grassland). This...
