Sorry for the neglect of this blog. I went looking for Stinking Hellebore and failed miserably, about a month ago. i should be back up and running soon.......
Edward's Amateur Botany: Yorkshire and Beyond
My travels in a mission to see all the wildflowers I can out of Harrap's Wildflowers, my favourite wildflower book!
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Friday 25 March 2022
Tuesday 18 January 2022
The last of the Herefordshire Pics
Saturday 8 January 2022
I am still here!
Hello, its been a long time since I last posted, mothed, botanised or anything, thats only due to the fact its Winter :). I am preparing a very small final P3 sequel to the Herefordshire series, and I can't wait for my first plant hunt in February! The first species of the year will be a plant with the initials of S and H and its latin is H. foetidus. Guess in the comments! Then it will likely be a G and H with latin of H. Viridis. In the time being through Winter my hobby is trainspotting and I have considered starting a blog where I keep record of trains. Anyway please tell me in comments if I should. If you are still here, thanks for reading!
Sorry about the lack of posts,
Edward
Wednesday 10 November 2021
A Holiday in Herefordshire - PT2
The much awaited (by who? :)) second part to the Herefordshire saga.
Field Madder, Brimfield |
Brimfield church |
Water Figwort, Eardisland |
Westonbury Mill Water Gardens |
Westonbury Mill Water Gardend |
Herefordshire speciality, Mistletoe, Growing in orchard, Almeley |
House in the woods, Almeley |
Brooklime, Shobdon |
Trailing St Johns Wort, Mortimers Cross |
Maize forest, next to footpath, Kingsland |
Great Mullein, Ledicot |
Black Horehound, Ledicot |
Cyclamen, Shobdon |
Romanesque font, Shobdon |
Shobdon Church |
Shobdon Arches |
White Bryony, Pembridge |
Pembridge bell tower |
Pembridge |
Common Poppy, Pembridge |
Musk Mallow, Pembridge |
Thursday 4 November 2021
Some pictures from Everywhere!
Just thought while I wait to find time for the second Herefordshire post I would put some page brighteners up...
Large-Flowered Hemp Nettle, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Grass-of-Parnassus, Priestcliffe, Derbyshire |
The River Tees in Upper Teesdale |
Cauldron Snout, Upper Teesdale |
Basil Thyme, Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Red Hemp-Nettle, Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Wednesday 29 September 2021
Update
I have recently bought a new book, the full on complete one with 1,900 species rather than 900. I will be able to add rarities in that aren't in Harrap's Wildflowers, because a lot aren't. The point being this blog won't just revolve around Harrap's only, it will have anything I wanted to see, and instead, if I have seen a rare plant once I will see it again. So the blog will now include a few mega-rares or rares that aren't in Harrap's aswell as commoner, the blog will now just be about what I want to see giving it free movement and a fair few more rarities and things not in Harrap's. Note: Harrap's is a wildflower guide that until now, this whole blog was based off.
Tuesday 28 September 2021
A holiday in Herefordshire PT1 - 27/08/2021 to 04/09/2021
Sorry for the delay in getting this post out, lots to do.
We went to Kington for our holiday this year and explored most of the countryside of North Herefordshire, Kington was a lovely place but we visited Leominster and it is quite an odd place. Anyway to the point, it was lovely holiday and beautiful countryside with us doing a lot of walking, hence I spotted a lot of new plants. Be braced for a LOT of pics. I may split this post up into parts
I need to go back again on more of a plant based trip.
Thyme-Leaved Speedwell, Titley |
Fool's Watercress, Titley |
Cornflower, Titley |
Common Vetch, Titley |
Feverfew, Titley |
Hairy Tare, Titley |
Chicory, Titley |
Orpine, Titley |
Weobley |
Weobley |
Spotted Dead-Nettle, Kington |
Yellow Corydalis |
Red Kite, Pembridge |
Common Hemp Nettle, Pembridge |
River Arrow, Pembridge |
River Arrow, Pembridge |
Procumbent Yellow Sorrel, Kington |
Navelwort, Kington |
View from Hergest Ridge towards the English Side |
Black Bryony, Lower Hergest |
View from walk out of Kington |
A pesticide free, oat field, packed with arable weeds |
The Rare Dwarf Spurge, Lower Hergest (in the above oat field) |
The weedy Oat Field |
Field Pansy, Weedy oat field, Lower Hergest |
Mind-your-own-Business, Lower Hergest |
I repeat - I am still here!!!
Sorry for the neglect of this blog. I went looking for Stinking Hellebore and failed miserably, about a month ago. i should be back up and ...
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Sorry for the neglect of this blog. I went looking for Stinking Hellebore and failed miserably, about a month ago. i should be back up and ...
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On the walk back, after the unsuccessful trip for Marsh Pea, stumbling across one of my favourite plants, as the first time I have ever see...
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We went to this beautiful limestone rocky peninsula near Grange-over-Sands on the second day I had free, a beautiful place managed by Cumbr...