Hi, I've been going through some old photos and 'rediscovered' a picture I took of a plant earlier in the year. It was found at the foot of the new Severn...
Looks more like Plantago maritima than Armeria I think. We think we have see this rather odd form, but no-one seems to know of a disease which could cause it....
PandIEVANS@...
Mar 6, 2004 9:19 pm
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Hi Pat, P. maritima was another one I remember considering, but I wasn't sure. It wasn't typical conditions for it, but then I'm the first to complain about...
Dear Mike, All organisms have a scientific name, implemented for international communication. The Internet is a global medium by excellence. I had to look up...
Dear Members, Wessex Gardening Club have set up a "Weekly Gardening Tips" information line, offering free advice and ideas to gardeners. Please feel free to...
Hello, Horseshoe Vetch I have been told that Hippocrepis comosa is a short lived perennial that reproduces mainly by seed. I would describe as a long lived...
Hello, http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/deps/ha/dmrb/vol10/section3/ha6793i.pdf As I have now confirmed that Hippocrepis comosa is a long lived...
... http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/deps/ha/dmrb/vol10/section3/ha6793i.pdf ... perennial ... This document perhaps gives too simple a picture....
Hello Martin, Thanks for the very helpful reply. This bears out exactly with my observations. I am not sure about heavy sheep grazing on steep slopes though as...
Hello Martin, The South Downs Conservation Board are going to argue that Hippocrepis comosa, the Horseshoe Vetch, will persist in areas grazed by cattle,...
Hello, I may have asked this before and forgotten. Who are responsible for deciding and designating SSSI sites please? (Does anybody know before ploughing...
English Nature, one way or another. If memory serves me, sites are recommended by local teams and are put forward to the 'EN council', or something like that,...
Hello, Webrings can be useful if the people on the ring stick to the parameters. Otherwise, they are not so good. However, there are always many sites which ...
Hello Just for fun; If you took the part of a modern day Noah and had to choose 10 plants species (not restricted by Geographical location, and they could be...
Congrats', you win the 'spot the mistake' game. Maybe I hadn't thought the whole thing through.! No doubt science will come up with a solution one day. The...
Hi Is anyone interested in a four day field botany course to the Exmoor area? Habitats will include heath, moor, wetland and sand dune and sites will include...
RUTH DAWES
Dawes.Rosedale@...
Mar 22, 2004 7:05 am
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In message <405D5093.2050807@...>, ray hamblett <ray.hamblett1@...> writes ... At least 9, if not ten, would have to be food plants... -- ...
In message <Sq0jT4FkTrXAFwTn@...>, Andy Mabbett <andy@...> writes ... alternatively, you could take ten plants that...
Martin Cragg-Barber
martin@...
Mar 23, 2004 9:39 am
2379
Dear All, We are planning to visit the Burren in late May and would be grateful for any information. Suggestions for nice areas to visit would be good (we will...
Hi Last year I had about 20 spikes of Orobanche hederae in my garden, and I understand that this is parasitic on Hedera helix var hibernica, the tetraploid...
Terry Smith
t.a.smith@...
Mar 31, 2004 6:22 pm
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Irish ivy has larger, less deeply lobed leaves of a less dark green, more widely spaced on the creeping stems, than ordinary ivy, but the most precise ...
http://ciwatch.fotopages.com/ Todays entry http://ciwatch.fotopages.com/?entry=77307 Hello If anyone has the time to spare, I would be interested in the names...
From: "ciwatch2004" <ciwatch2004@...> ... Quite a few flowers about yesterday 300 miles further north. Would expect your spring to be well advanced. I...
'Cranes Bill' actually looks like a Stork's-bill (Erodium): the flowers are not quite rotationally symmetrical, the petals are slightly 'crumply' and there...
Dear Members, Wessex Gardening Club have set up a "Weekly Gardening Tips" information line, offering free advice and ideas to gardeners. Please feel free to...
Hello, What water plants would group members recommend for a small wildlife pond in a small front garden of a suburban street? Initially, it is thought that...
This is actually a big and fairly complex issue. There is much emphasis at the moment on using plants of "local provenance" in any planting that may enable...
Richard Lansdown
rlansdown@...
Apr 9, 2004 12:32 pm
2388
Hello Richard, Thanks for the very useful reply. Just stopped for a mug of tea. Lots of brambles and crisps packets to clear even before the hole can be dug. ...
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