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Post by 4wd on Dec 31, 2021 10:45:22 GMT
Once again a place to dump photos of anything taking your interest through the year. Since 1st January looks like being rather springlike it would be a good chance to take a few. The local facebook botany group do a New Years Day wild flower count and some places by the coast get 70 or more in bloom. I would find something in flower here but probably not even seven
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Post by 4wd on Jan 1, 2022 16:09:08 GMT
First stage of clearing up one of the Arwen casualties. There are about ten mature pines down the other side of the dale, but less pressing to deal with than this Oak laid on silage field.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 1, 2022 16:44:48 GMT
That looks like a goodly fraction of a year's firing. I'd try and get the big bits split soon, because they go more easily unseaoned and wet. Meanwhile... I've been round the holding and found 21 species in flower. In some cases there is just the one flower, and in others the are lots of the same species. Anyway... 1. Hebe, growing in a field boundary. 2. Sarcococca. Tiny flowers with intense scent and only just out. 3. Calendula. Lots of tiny daisy-like flowers for several months. 4. Chimonanthus Praecox. Waxy semi-transparent buds followed by scented flowers. 5. Crocus, possibly Tomassianus, and if so, probably self seeded. 6. Crysanthemum. One of several looking a bit miserable growing outside in pots. 7a. Hazel catkin with Mrs RGSP's hand for scale. 7b. Hazel female flowers. The threads are about 1mm long. 8. Lamium album, or white dead nettle. There's one out somewhere in almost every month. 9. Liriope Muscari. Strange things, but they do flower in mid winter. 10. Mahonia Aquifolium. The trick with these is to massacre them every year after flowering, before fruiting.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 1, 2022 17:25:11 GMT
2nd lot to limit the posting size. 11. Penstemon. These have been flowering in a pot by the back door for about 5 months, and this is the last flower just hanging on. 12. Periwinkle. Unspectacular but reliable. 13. Prunus Subhirtella Autumnalis. Variable flowering from November to March. 14. Rose. A small bush type, whose label has been nicked by blackbirds. 15. Galanthus Elwesii var. Monostictus, Hiemalis group. 16. Solanum - probably Crispum and certainly white. 17a. Viburnum Bodnantense. Absolutely covered in flower this year. 17b. Viburnum Bodnantense close up. 18. Winter jasmine a.k.a. Snob gardeners' bane. 19. Witch Hazel This orange-flowered one is more tolerant of chalk than the standard yellow. 20. Pyrus Chanticleer. One group of flowers 25' up - too high up to photograph easily. It's really a spring flowerer, but sometimes has a few over the winter
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Post by rgsp on Jan 1, 2022 17:35:24 GMT
Other non-flowers of some interest Callicarpa bodinieri - bright mauve bead-like fruit. The flowers are insignificant. The Cedar of Lebanon bearing this was planted about 15 years ago, and had cones for the first time last year. This evergreen Clematis Armandii will probably flower by February from fat buds like these. Sooner i the weather is kind. This group of winter aconites was not visible a couple of days ago, and could easily be out tomorrow.
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Post by rgsp on Feb 8, 2022 15:55:25 GMT
Pictures from yesterday's visit to Chippenham Park. In the formal garden, lots of corners have mixtures of aconites and snowdrops like this: There are also plenty of early dwarf irises. This clump appears to have hybridised: I think Matthew mentioned trying to establish some black grass: opiophogon I think. Here is some with snowdrops. "The canal" is an entirely hand-dug waterway about 1/3 of a mile long, and the present gardeners do make good visual use of it: Snowdrops en masse are impossible to do justice to in a photograph, but here is a typical sample of areas which stretch to acres.
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Post by 4wd on Feb 11, 2022 19:09:33 GMT
Thunderheads Farndale about 5pm today - on sunset
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Post by 4wd on Feb 11, 2022 19:19:18 GMT
Sheep with fodder beet -- Farndale 11th Feb
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Post by Joyce on Feb 19, 2022 19:09:42 GMT
Amazing number of flowering plants. All your photos are lovely RGSP and 4wd Thank you and others who use the thread to share.
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Post by 4wd on Mar 5, 2022 13:02:04 GMT
These are starting to go over but this group are in a very windswept position. Daffodils still generally a way off opening here.
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Post by 4wd on Mar 15, 2022 20:48:01 GMT
Royal Crescent on Whitby West Cliff. It's a rather pale imitation of the grand crescents you might see in e.g. Bath, a lot of different styles and above all it was never all built so there is only a quarter of a circle rather than half which was the plan. The missing part is mainly car park. Spa Pavilion perched rather precariously halfway down the significant cliff. The driveway to it has literally 50ft sheer drop into sea at high tide. They are doing quite a bit of work for new season.
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Post by 4wd on Mar 23, 2022 10:17:19 GMT
Morning sheep check.
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Post by 4wd on Mar 26, 2022 10:20:08 GMT
Sunset yesterday on Harland Moor This little group of windswept trees is right on the ridge and a striking landmark which can be seen from many miles away
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Post by 4wd on Apr 12, 2022 8:08:35 GMT
Some of my cowslip colonies. Started off some 20 years ago they are well away now in the places that suit them they need no more help. Watch the seedheads until late June then pick them before they shake out it is Ok if they are still a bit green. Dry off on Newspaper indoors, when fully crispy break them up and roughly separate seeds. Sow on the surface where you think they might grow, ideally find a mini bare spot. They need a period of cold to germinate I do it between Christmas and New Year roughly. A tiny pinch is enough. They like each others company and don't like to be moved at all so just leave little clumps when you see them. In year one there will not be any flowers and year two they are quite weedy. They don't like full shade or being smothered out in vigorous grass. A bank that tends to get very dry later mighty suit them but not all that fussy TBH This one is probably a false Oxslip which has crossed with wild primrose. These are showy just now, don't last long but bees like them too.
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Post by 4wd on Apr 14, 2022 18:43:51 GMT
Just now 14th April
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