Showing posts with label lady's bedstraw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lady's bedstraw. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Saturday 9 July

On our own so we wandered on to the Lower Burgh Meadow.


 Alsike Clover - Trifolium hybridum small patch just going over.
 Alsike Clover - Trifolium hybridum
 Broad Leaved Helleborine - Epipactus helleborine this patch had about 7 plants last year, they are here but look like the strimmers have done a bit of cutting down, unfortunately they are near to the paths edge.
 Broad Leaved Helleborine - Epipactus helleborine
 Broad Leaved Helleborine - Epipactus helleborine
Common Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea 
 Fungi
 Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium this one is part of an hedge in the village, the scent always reminds me of my childhood, it was always a popular hedge. Wild Privit does grow round here but I have not seen it flower yet.
 Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium
 Lady's Bedstraw - Galium verum
 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis
 Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria
 Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria
 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis
 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis
 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis
 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria not a lot on the meadow I expected it to spread but it seems to be less this year.
 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
 Square-stalked St John's-wort - Hypericum tetrapterum there's plenty of St John's-wort about but not square stalked and yes this is also next to the path, I have yet to see this flower.
 Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima
 Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima
Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum finally in flower

Take Care.

Saturday, July 09, 2011

Sunday 3 July

Sunny morning and we ended up on the Lower Burgh Meadow.

But as we were setting off four Hot Air Balloons passed over the house - they looked beautiful against the clear sky.






 Another Cat kill found on Sunny Brow
 Common Figwort - Scrophularia nodosa var. bobartii
 Goats Beard - Tragopogon pratensis
 Goats Beard - Tragopogon pratensis
 Lady's Bedstraw - Galium verum
 Skipper
 Marsh Woundwort - Stachys palustris
 Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia
 Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis
 Scented Mayweed - Matricaria recutita
Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Take Care.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Tuesday 7 June

Cool but dry - we walked up to the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Beetle for ID
 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale
 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale
 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale
 Common Knapweed  bud - Centaurea nigra
 Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii
 Common Toadflax not quite open - Linaria vulgaris
 Great Crested Grebe
 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica
 Lady's Bedstraw in bud - Galium verum
 Redshank - Persicaria maculosa
Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Take Care.