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Offline stephenprudence

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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #75 on: July 16, 2011, 03:51:54 pm »
Indeed, Viper bugloss is our native Echium.. down towards Portmeirion they used to have big problems with Echium pininana (The Giant Canary Echium), as it was self seedling all the time. If there were any giant Echiums around the North Wales coast I would imagine they would far out number our native ones  :o

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« Reply #76 on: July 23, 2011, 11:18:37 am »
Saw these plants on my walk yesterday along the riverban in Dyserth. They look like Gunneras but I'm not sure if they are or not.
The blue flowers were on a cliff face by the lead mines there.


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« Reply #77 on: July 23, 2011, 12:08:17 pm »
The blue ones look like Harebells, not sure about the big leaves.
Plenty of various funghi on the Orme this a.m.-- sign of Autumn?
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« Reply #78 on: July 26, 2011, 04:22:58 pm »
Hugo, I agree with Nemesis that your blue flowers look like harebells.  The plant with the large leaves looks like butterbur.  If you happen to do the walk again, I would expect the leaves to die back over winter and then the flowers to appear in spring, before the leaves.  Butterbur is common in damp places and besides streams and rivers, as in your photos, so you'll probably see it some of your other walks, too. 

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« Reply #79 on: July 28, 2011, 01:24:33 pm »
Has anyone else noticed the large amount of Mullein plants down the side of the road between the toilets and the old Rectory Tea Gardens? Wonder if they really are wild or some garden throw outs from across the road?
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« Reply #80 on: July 28, 2011, 01:31:20 pm »
Probably the latter -  WWW
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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #81 on: July 28, 2011, 11:01:06 pm »
The blue flowers are harebells. Campanula is the latinised name.

The large flowers are in the rhubarb family, but are poisonous.

It is in the genus Rheum. Very common on streamsides/riversides.

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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #82 on: August 03, 2011, 11:46:16 am »
Another couple of shots of flowers on the Orme Common Toadflax and Tufted Vetch. A bit jiggly, but the pup had got wind of a rabbit!
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Offline Blodyn

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« Reply #83 on: August 03, 2011, 01:33:05 pm »
You obviously walked along the same path as me, Nemesis.  I took some photos of them this morning, too! 

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« Reply #84 on: August 03, 2011, 04:03:57 pm »
I did speak to a lady coming the other way who said she was meeting friends at the church, but didn't see any one else on foot apart from a distant view of some ladies with a garden chair in the new cemetery! :o
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« Reply #85 on: August 03, 2011, 08:43:11 pm »
I saw these flowers in the graveyard at Llanrwst Church, a very vivid orangey colour, but I have no idea what they are?

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« Reply #86 on: August 03, 2011, 09:48:34 pm »
Is this the same one? We took this picture yesterday approaching close to St Tudno's from the half way station.

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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #87 on: August 04, 2011, 10:07:47 am »
Dave, your flower looks like an orange hawkweed.  Some of the other hawkweeds have equally imaginative names (few-leaved hawkweed, leafy hawkweed, spotted hawkweed) but at least they're easy to remember.  What lovely colours in your photo.

The Medz, yes, that's the one.  The plants are perennials and pop up there each year.

Nemesis, I obviously missed you as I didn't see anybody else during my walk. 

Offline stephenprudence

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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #88 on: August 04, 2011, 09:56:02 pm »
Hawkweed is a Mediterranean native, it likes our climate though and loves limestone soils,  it's also pretty invasive. However it is regarded as a native flower.


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Re: Wild flowers
« Reply #89 on: August 07, 2011, 12:21:29 pm »
This morning we took a ride down the Conwy Valley to Betws and back and I was amazed at the volume of Himalayan Balsam growing on the sides of both the A 470 and the B5106. Don't think I have ever seen as much in that area.
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