The great exbs spring and summer wildflower hunt!! (1 Viewer)

[palval147]

That looks a lovely walk, Wendy.

 

[Wendy Morris]

Germander Speedwell and a Whitebell from this afternoon. I could have taken many more Bluebells, but I just looked and enjoyed them! The Whitebell was surrounded by thousands of its blue cousins. Actually...what is the relationship? Off to find out!

 

[Wendy Morris]

Just a bit of Red Clover in the grass at Sutton Bingham earlier today.

 

[pie]

Gorgeous Wendy. Did you find the relationship btw?

 

[Pam_m]

A wonderful selection of flower pics!:t:

Horsetail, the pics were taken yesterday at a local Fisheries. I have watched the Horsetail grow over the last few weeks, good to see it with the sheaths now! Can anyone spot the little man?o

 

[Wendy Morris]

Three from Portland yesterday.

1&2 are Birdsfoot Trefoil

3 is Thrift

4 is Red Valerian.

 

[palval147]

Lovely wildflower photo's, Wendy & Pam.
I have some taken in & around Weymouth, but, I need to identify them first, before I add them to this thread.o:gh:

 

[Gill Osborne]

Just stick then on Val - any you get stuck on will soon be id'd by someone else :king:

 

[palval147]

OK Gill, but that is nearly every one.3

1) Thrift
2,3. Don't know.
4) Vetch?
5) Buttercups?

 

[palval147]

A few more....

1) Clover
2) Don't know.
3) Hawthorn (May)?

 

[palval147]

Wild Garlic in the front garden.

 

[Gill Osborne]

OK Gill, but that is nearly every one.3

1) Thrift
2,3. Don't know.
4) Vetch?
5) Buttercups?

1: Yes, definitely looks like thrift :t:
2: Looks like some sort of 'escaped' agricultural brassica....rapeseed? Some sort of cabbage?
3: This one I DO know but the name escapes me!!! It's a herb of some sort!!! Arghhhh what do they call it......Borage? I'm sure you can soak it in water for a few days or weeks and it makes a good fertiliser.
4: I'm sure I saw some of that at Druridge on Tuesday - I think someone on this site (Northumberland thread?) said it was Common Vetch.
4: Looks like Meadow Buttercup (upright growing habit as opposed to creeping buttercup's, well, creeping over ground habit 3) with another dmestic brassica in front on the right.

I may be wrong with these mind...I'm still working on botany and trying to improve my own knowledge this year.

 

[Gill Osborne]

I've seen that small yellow flower too which is No. 2 in the next post.....sure I have!

Oh I really DO need a good botany book!!! :smoke: Something is saying medick but I'm not even sure if that IS a real name 3

Hold on...I'll go google it......

Yes, there IS a plant called Medick....I didn't imagine it! rather bizarrely it's called black even tho' it's yellow! :king: Is this the one?

http://www.english-country-garden.com/flowers/black-medick.htm

 

[palval147]

I think the second pic, first post is Rapeseed escaped, Gill. I agree on the others. Many thanks for your identifications for me.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Mmmmmm not so sure on my id on borage now :smoke: Especially when you compare it to these pics...

http://images.google.co.uk/images?h...&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

Oooh how frustrating.....I've seen this plant before - I'm sure there's a load of it next to the allotments beside Hulne Park but the name just will not come to me! :smoke:

Somebody...HELP!!!! 3

 

[Bea]

Mmmmmm not so sure on my id on borage now :smoke: Especially when you compare it to these pics...

http://images.google.co.uk/images?h...&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

Oooh how frustrating.....I've seen this plant before - I'm sure there's a load of it next to the allotments beside Hulne Park but the name just will not come to me! :smoke:

Somebody...HELP!!!! 3

Is it Comfrey you're thinking of Gill?

 

[Gill Osborne]

Perhaps :smoke: 3

Just googled it and yes, I think THAT'S what it is :t: And reading a bit it turns out that it's comfrey which you make a fertiliser from, not borage :king:

Thanks Bea xxx

 

[palval147]

So, Ladies, my third pic, first post is Comfrey then? I have seen it many times before also. Thank you both for the identifications.

 

[Wendy Morris]

A potter along Chesil at West Bexington this afternoon revealed the following....
1..Hoary Cress, flowers further out than the last pic I posted.

2&3..Yellow Horned Poppy, just the one flower which, I gather is quite early.

4&5..Tree mallow and a close up of the flower.

 

[Wendy Morris]

A couple more....

6..Yellow iris in amongst the reeds.

7..Woody Nightshade, also known as Bittersweet.