Tag: flowers
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Orley Common
Greater Butterfly-orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) Orley Common is half a mile west of Ipplepen on the road to Torbryan: grid reference SX 828 667. It is a fragile site of great value for its wildlife, geology and historical interest. Because it has fairly undisturbed ancient grassland and ancient woodland, it is very species-rich, with County and…
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Foxgloves
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Blackthorn
Blackthorn bushes growing beside the River Exe near Powderham.
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Wood Anemones
Wood Anemones, Chagford, Devon.
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Apple blossom
Crab apple Malus sylvestris John Downie
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Three-cornered garlic
Keble Martin, in the 1969 edition of The Concise British Flora in Colour, describes this plant as “Naturalized in woods, etc., in W. Cornwall, S. Wales, S.W. Ireland and Guernsey”, and the flowering period as April to June. Since he spent much of his life in Devon it seems likely that it wasn’t found here…
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Winter Heliotrope
Although this plant is a pest in the garden it smells very sweet in the winter sunshine – on a December morning there was a bee at work on this clump of flowers. Status: a naturalised garden escape.