Dear Helen, I was so sorry to cancel Leonardslee meeting with you tonight. I envisaged a great day. Please let's schedule another day next week or even the...
Dearest Peter I was disappointed too, but I do understand - your vegetables must come first - how are they by the way? Leonardslee is such a wonderful place...
Hi all I have received a request from a lady for a book which she hoped might have been written by me. Sadly, it isn't, but if anyone out there has an unwanted...
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Ron Tavender
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Nov 7, 2001 7:03 pm
Hello, everyone, What a mild Autumn we have experienced - at least in the Midlands. Whilst out walking the lanes of Worcestershire yesterday, November 6th, I...
Hi Ron Not a good day here today 95% cloud with some drizzle and showers. Led 2 walks for my classes both to the West of the Avon north of Loddiswell.(VC3) ...
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Ron Tavender
ron.tavender@...
Nov 7, 2001 11:09 pm
Hi, Martin, Only one butterfly - Red Admiral in my conservatory today, maybe looking for a warm place to hibernate. Doors fully open, probably attracted by the...
Few more plants in flower at Newton Park, near Bath, on 7th November Achillea millefolium Centranthus ruber Crepis capillaris Geranium molle G. pratense G....
November 8th Couldn't resist making a mental note as I went about my day. The following 'weedy' selection caught my eye on this wild wet windy day in the North...
Keith, Geranium nodosum is a rare one here (Bath). I don't think I've ever seen it naturalised. Is it more common in the NW? & is it fairly persistent? cheers...
It was almost certainly a garden escape . I too have not seen it wild in the area , and I would not have included in the list apart from it being relatively...
Hi! Below are the plants I have seen today in VC.57 at 1000ft above sea level. There is nothing truly notable, but I thought it worth a mention. Richard. ...
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Gordon Hanson
Gordon27@...
Nov 14, 2001 10:19 am
Darrel, I sowed a few seeds of Geranium nodosum in my Ware garden about fifteen years ago and now it's my number one enemy getting everywhere including the...
Following my list of species seen in flower at the beginning of this thread of messages, I am sorry to report that, following a moderately severe frost on the...
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Rodney Burton
rodney.burton@...
Nov 14, 2001 8:06 pm
I sowed Nicandra soon after we moved here about 30 years ago and let it grow to maturity. After that it re-appeared on composted ground about three times, at...
Hi everyone, Here I am again to show you a further selection of flowering plants I saw today in VC.57 at 1000ft above sea level. I have included one grass if...
Richard, Thanks for the lists. It is interesting to see your records for 1000' in vc 57 , as mine are mainly sea level in vc 58 . Been busy preparing and...
Hi Rodney et al, Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Datura stramonium - my memory was jogged. I have seen this species twice in recent years, in both...
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Gordon Hanson
Gordon27@...
Nov 14, 2001 10:07 pm
Dear Ron, This beautiful alien crops up regularly on local farm manure heaps, presumably as an impurity in animal feed. It also appears suddenly where soil has...
Dear all, N. physalodes grows in the staging and and cracks in the floor of one of our glasshouses, it was originally planted (in a pot) because of its alleged...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Nov 15, 2001 10:08 am
Clement & Foster (Alien Plants of the British Isles) indicate that D. stramonium is from N. America. Ian ... From: "Ron Tavender" <ron.tavender@...> To:...
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Kate Hayward
Kate.Hayward@...
Nov 15, 2001 6:54 pm
Hi, I have just seen Fallopia baldchuanica (Russian vine) still in bloom, another rampant alien, In Broomfield,Chelmsford, Essex. Kate Hayward will look out...
Dear Ron, Rodney, Ian, Darrel and Gordon, I've only seen Nicandra physalodes once as a bird seed alien, but it is a beautiful plant! Mabberley (The Plant Book)...
Hi Bryan, etc. etc. Re Datura stramonium - my "Encyclopaedia of Herbs and Herbalism" (ed. Malcolm Stuart pub. Caxton, 1989) says as follows: "Thorn Apple aka...
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Peter Jones
Phj@...
Nov 16, 2001 10:02 pm
Cheers Kate, It's also doing the same down in West Sussex. My roses in the garden are thriving and my lawn is above ankle deep. Saw a red admiral yesterday...
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Peter Jones
Phj@...
Nov 16, 2001 10:02 pm
Dear All, I greatly desire to see ghost orchid this coming summer in the UK - does anyone have a relatively reliable location? Peter Jones ... From: "Ron...
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Rodney Burton
rodney.burton@...
Nov 17, 2001 11:36 am
I have seen 'Stramonium' listed among the ingredients in a herbal cure for smoking (not for myself, I should say). This sounds like a case of the cure being...
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Gordon Hanson
Gordon27@...
Nov 17, 2001 12:12 pm
To all thornapple admirers, Several years ago a local maltings building burnt down and after the wreckage was removed up came thousands of plants. The origin...
Today, November 18th, during the course of a walk at the southern end of the Malvern Hills, I saw in flower: Silene latifolia ssp. alba - White Campion ...
