Hello, Apologies for the accumulation of messages. I have out the Milkwort comparison on: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Milkwort.htm I think they are both Common...
A distinctive feature of G. celandine is the orange juice from the stems. Supposed to be a cure for warts. Phil ... From: British Marine Life Study Society ...
Hello, I must test this wart treatment. I think it is hazard of seashore life. Wart virus in the sea? (just as improbable as the wart cure?). Meanwhile, I...
It is quite well naturalised here in Maldon, Essex - seems to like those odd bits at the base of walls. Spreads rapidly if you get it in your garden, but not...
Hello, Can anybody inform me of the legal position regarding spraying of herbicides (not spot weedkiller) in Local Nature Reserves, or if there are no legal ...
Sorry, this is not a strictly botanical query but I would be grateful for GIS advice for a botanical project. I am trying to draw a grid to show quadrats in a...
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Funny nobody else has responded to this in more than a week. There must be a management plan for the LNR which gives some help in each case, when it comes to...
Saw this thistle on Holy Island and was unable to identify it with any certainty. It looks quite different to the thistles I see commonly in the Yorkshire...
Hello, Lead Agencies for designated Local Nature Reserves * Management group meeting for a local group (Widewater Management Group) explored this issue. This...
Hello Rodney, An interesting and helpful reply was posted at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/countrysidemanagement/message/3927 With Local Nature Reserves it...
Christine, You needed to upload the picture to the Photos section (no, I don't know how to do it either). I wonder if that was the Slender Thistle, Carduus...
Hello, You might be able to match it up to the thistles on ths page: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Thistles.html I hope I have got my Slender Thistle ID correct as...
Thank-you Rodney. Slender Thistle is what I thought it must be, but wasn't sure. CEB ... From: Rodney Burton To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 14,...
Hello Raymond has seen 3 Early Purple Orchids on the bank between Grassington Bridge and Linton Falls Christine [Non-text portions of this message have been...
The approx 4 weeks we had, prior to the last week, without rain has affected green-winged orchids badly at Wymington Meadow NR in Bedfordshire, this year. Also...
Hello Peter, This is interesting. Green-winged Orchids grow on chalk conservation cattle pasture at Anchor Bottom, Upper Beeding. This is chalk porous soil...
Peter On my local Downs (north Surrey), I did a preliminary survey this morning. The past few years have seen the first flowers of Man Orchid opening around...
Hello I will be going up to the field off Hardgate Lane on Friday morning the 18th May if anyone would like to go with me. Meet on Skirethorns Lane 10am just...
Hi In Northants green-wingeds flowering on schedule, numbers about same as other years but flowering spikes noticeably shorter, about 1/2 normal height. Nic...
Early Purples seem unaffected in the Peak and in the Magnesium Limestone woodlands around NE Derbyshire; Adders tongue in good numbers in Calke Park, S Derbys...
... That is what it is all about!! Let's face it, without management it would all probably be Beech forest ;-) . All the best John < Hello, Alas, not with...
Hello, It looks like one: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Bellflower.htm I do not know what one it is there as there are cultivated ones and the seeds may have been...
It's columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris. Best Stephen ... From: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UKBotany@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of glaucus25 Sent: 16 May 2007...
Hello, Thanks Stephen. I have seen this wild in other places this year. http://www.glaucus.org.uk/BlueFlower018.jpg Cheers Andy Horton glaucus@... Adur...
Hi - Can anyone do this dock? Photos in Photos: Richard C. Found on a derelict grassland site yesterday (15/5/07) in Essex, near edge of Epping Forest....
Hi Richard, Probably Rumex cristatus (Greek Dock) http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/R152571.HTM Like a big crispus but the ochraea are more silver. The teeth on...