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Horticultural Trip

Posted in Flora, Gardens on Thursday May 23, 2019| 2 Comments »

Trip to Milton Manor Gardens and Sugnall Walled Garden, in Staffordshire.

Photos by Richard T

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Plant, bulb and seed swap

Posted in Events, Flora, Gardens, Memorial hall on Monday April 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »

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A Big Bee

Posted in Flora, Photography on Tuesday July 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Thank you David G for sending in these images and caption.

Too heavy for takeoff /fell into the flower

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The drought continues

Posted in Fauna, Flora, Weather on Wednesday July 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

July 2018 – The Millenium pond has completely dried up, the photo compares the pond to this time last year. Not good timing for the Baby Moorhens who are currently on the pond finding what few puddles there are.

Who has picked blackberries before in July?!

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Horticultural Society Trip

Posted in Flora, Societies on Monday July 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Cascades visit

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Beautiful Orchids

Posted in Flora, Photography on Saturday May 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Where the modern day fertilisers can’t reach they seem to survive. By David S

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Extinct Plant Found in the Peaks

Posted in Flora, Peak Park on Wednesday September 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

hawkweed

Extinct plant rediscovered in the Peak District National Park
A rare plant previously thought to be globally extinct has been rediscovered in the Peak District National Park.
Two small populations of the leek-coloured hawkweed, 62 plants in total, have been found flowering on the banks of the Monsal Trail, in Chee Dale.
Leek-coloured hawkweed flowers are yellow, similar to a dandelion but smaller. The plant gets its name because its leaves are the same chalky-green as the vegetable, leek.
The discovery of Hieracium subprasinifolium, to give the plant its botanical name, was made by Dr Tim Rich whilst collecting seeds for Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank.
Dr Rich said: “Leek-coloured Hawkweed has not been seen in Derbyshire for over 60 years and is thought to have died out at its only other known world site in Staffordshire a few years ago, so I was very, very pleased to find these two small but healthy populations growing near the Monsal Trail. (more…)

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