tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post4888857838423835968..comments2024-03-28T05:55:54.342+00:00Comments on Happy Muslim Mama: Spotting Wildflowers in KentHappy Muslim Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16144849663355612169noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-12041678223132256092013-06-22T00:51:58.763+01:002013-06-22T00:51:58.763+01:00Thank you!
I've been looking at plants for abo...Thank you!<br />I've been looking at plants for about 2 years now; i've found about 400 beside my village. We've got a canal, old quarries, woods, boggy bits, dry, sunny, shady, disturbed parts... so many habitats, it's amazing the great variety that sprouts out of it all! I photograph all the plants in detail and keep track of them.<br />The way I got to know plants was to take a 2 x 2 metre area nearby home and discover every plant in it. First familiarise fully with what's there, and then when that's done just leaf through a wild flower book page-by-page and 80% of them will jump out at you. Then do a similar process for all the plants where you *regularly* walk. By choosing regular places you walk, you'll get to know those plants really well. That'll bring you up to about 200+ plants, by which time you'll have got used to your flower book and how to identify them (which for new flowers, is best using their flowers!)<br />Photographing them in detail - flower, leaf, stem, shape, hairiness etc - really helps, as you get to deeply interact with the plant and notice all its characteristics.<br />Hope this helps, and wish you always much joy of nature!<br />dUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15919887132448536226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-25886110491357536302013-06-16T16:41:08.706+01:002013-06-16T16:41:08.706+01:00Hi David,
All I can say is WOW!!! I am seriously ...Hi David,<br />All I can say is WOW!!! I am seriously impressed that you know all of these. Thank you so much for taking the time to name them for me.<br />Now that you mention it, Pic 13 does look like bindweed, I should know, it loves to grow in my garden despite my best efforts.<br /><br />By the way, I love Edinburgh, such a beautiful city, hope to visit again this summer.Happy Muslim Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16144849663355612169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-91104063234183523422013-06-16T16:38:33.707+01:002013-06-16T16:38:33.707+01:00That's rubbish, try harder!!That's rubbish, try harder!!Happy Muslim Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16144849663355612169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-36309287021011301392013-06-13T00:35:31.073+01:002013-06-13T00:35:31.073+01:00Hello!
i'm so glad you enjoyed your visit to K...Hello!<br />i'm so glad you enjoyed your visit to Kent, and i hope you will always continue your love of flowers and nature!<br /><br />Here are the flowers you have posted, as an encouragement for you -<br /><br />Pic #2 - Redshank (persicaria maculosa) - you can see the distinctive black mark on the leaf.<br /><br />Pic #3 - Pineapple Weed (matricaria discoidea) - if you crush the head it actually smells of pineapple, and tastes very nice<br /><br />Pic #4 - Buttercup. The leaves in the background suggest Creeping Buttercup (ranunculus repens) with its large celery-like leaves rather than the taller Meadow Buttercup (ranunculus acris) which has thinner spikier leaves<br /><br />Pic #5 - Groundsel (senecio vulgaris)<br /><br />Pic #6 - Creeping Thistle (cirsium arvense)<br /><br />Pic #7 - Hogweed (heracleum sphondylium) - you can actually see the leaves in the background which are different from the Queen Anne's Lace.<br /><br />Pic #8 - Bramble / Blackberry (rubus)<br /><br />Pic #9 - White Clover (trifolium repens)<br /><br />Pic #10 - Daisy (bellis perennis) - this is said to take its name from the phrase "Day's Eye"<br /><br />Pic #11 - Bittersweet (solanum dulcamara)<br /><br />Pic #12 - Probably Field Bindweed (convolvulus arvensis) but could be Hairy Bindweed (convolvulus pulchra)<br /><br />Pic #13 - Hedgrerow Crane's-Bill (geranium pyrenaicum) - there's a similar Dove's-Foot Cranesbill.<br /><br />david (from Edinburgh)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15919887132448536226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-58609056724167411702011-07-13T08:29:32.245+01:002011-07-13T08:29:32.245+01:00I only recongised the dandelions and daisies. ;)I only recongised the dandelions and daisies. ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13628315542430902814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398611943115596793.post-15087082300877846082011-07-12T13:55:24.099+01:002011-07-12T13:55:24.099+01:00i recognised almost all of them as weeds! :)i recognised almost all of them as weeds! :)LSSnoreply@blogger.com