Every other Wednesday evening for the past couple of months I’ve been wandering the field and hedgerows of our village with a group of hard-core botanists led by Dr Ken Adams, the Essex Botanical recorder.
I say hard-core, because these guys don’t just know the names of a couple of virtually all the plants we come across, they will tell you just about everything to do with the plant including, of course, the Latin name. In fact they would rather talk Latin names, which is a bit frustrating for the likes of me.
Although it’s hard to keep up, I’ve been enjoying myself immensely and it’s rekindled an interest in botany that I started just after I began serious bird-watching many, many years ago.
Today, I took out the big camera and went to the woods and the local fields to capture a couple of June flowering plants. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on some of these. Unfortunately, Ken wasn't with me today!
Red Dead-Nettle
Red campion
Slender or Hairy St John’s wort (not perforate)
Self-heal
Arum lily berries
Don’t forget to look up now and again – Buzzard.
Field of Rape
Poppy
Redshank
Common mallow
Agrimony
Field scabious with 5-spot burnet moths
Bladder campion
Oxeye daisy
Rosebay willowherb
Cinqufoil (with cut-leaved cranesbill)
Ragwort
Cardinal beetle
Tall melitot
Bugloss
Black hoarhound
White bryony
Thanks for the visit.
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