... Recent work suggests that Himalayan balsam cannot compete with native vegetation and is merely an opportunist exploiting areas of bare soil. Even Crassula...
... soil. I find that very difficult to accept. Himalayan Balsam was rarely seen here when I started recording 4 years ago. Now it has colonised large tracts...
Not in my car I couldn't - I know Rudland Rigg well, and it's pretty rutted - no probs in a Land Rover, but not an ordinary car thank you very much :-). There...
I agree. I also wonder whether they actively kill other plants, say by exuding aromatic oils - that balsam smell is overpoweringly strong. I can often smell it...
I find that very hard to believe. Round here it has invaded river banks that were certainly already vegetated, and also tracts under trees where there may have...
ryenats wrote ... By the first site, I meant as distinct from the one I mentioned in my 27 Nov posting i.e. " a dry peaty track at about SE170760, again near a...
I agree that Himalayan Balsam suppresses local flora, and is very difficult to get rid of once established. I have seen large patches of the balsam along the...
Interesting observation. If this is the case then it would be an example of allelopathy, see http://www.answers.com/allelopathy?gwp=11&ver=2.0.1.458&method=3...
I have had independent confirmation via a knowledgeable friend that the mystery plant on Rudland Rigg is indeed Cotula/Leptinella squalida: "...It is Cotula...
I have put together a list of 20 or so plants in flower now: Achillea millefolium Yarrow Arabidopsis thaliana Thale cress Arrhenatherum elatius Oat, False ...
Thinking Rob's map ref was on Malham Moor I emailed the information to the BSBI recorder for VC 64, a friend of mine. Members will be interested in her reply...
Hi Brian - interesting - can you please ask your friend if the plants on Dallow Moor are near a trig point? <<Its beginning to look as if this plant has found...
ryenats wrote ... on Dallow Moor are near a trig point? Of course! at SE 158711 (but then they do tend to crop up every 5km or so). I didn't notice any Cotula...
Rob, The BSBI recorder for VC65 has told me that your record of Cotula squalida on Kirkby Malzeard Moor is its first record in the Vice County. Brian. ...
Briankbyrne wrote ... squalida ... Wow! I really should have dug it out earlier. I have been prompted to look out some other photos taken while trig-spotting,...
Rob, Your ID looks right to me. George Swan's Flora of Northumberland records Gaultheria mucronata at Kyloe Woods, and Kyloe is given as NU 0540, which would...
ryenats wrote ... I was surprised to see a plant of Euphrasia (short spindly sp) in flower on 2 Dec, on Cribarth. It's an interesting limestone summit with...
and I was surprised to see hybrid bluebells well up in a Hullavington garden yesterday (not flowewring obviously) and plants of Phlox paniculata that hadn't...
Martin Barber
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Dec 14, 2006 2:35 pm
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Gill, You asked for details of the Dallow Moor record in an email I've somehow lost. However I met with Phyl last night and she emailed the following:- The...
Hello, I was going to make to make a note of the December flowers in coastal urban Sussex, but they disappeared quickly at the start of the month, it was very ...
<<I would not be surprised to find some Brambles still in flower.>> Neither would I, but strangely I have not seen any since I started making my December list....
December flower greetings from Göteborg Sweden, where we have had an extremely mild and wet autumn. My December flowers, however, are more or less the usual...
Bramble (Rubus ulmifolius) in flower near Winchester yesterday (17/12/06). Some more for the lists, all from unploughed stubbles SE of Winchester: White...
Viper's Bugloss in full flower on 17 December here in Norfolk. Cheers Simon ... Anne Harrap 1 Norwich Road Edgefield Melton Constable Norfolk NR24 2RP ...
Hi Folks Some sprigs of Yarrow ( Achillea millefolium ) flowering yesterday y on the south facing slope of a railway bank nr lightcliffe , Calder dale , West...
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