
Autumn gentian
August brought drier weather but there were plenty of flowers in bloom especially on the chalkier grasslands. However, there were also some beautiful later flowering wetland species plus a good sprinkling of arable flowering weeds. This year has been exceptional for the sheer quantity of flowering plants but my favourite this year has to be the Autumn gentian. I had collected some seed many years ago from a roadside, it was a tiny amount and, to be honest, I had given up thinking I’d ever see it grow on the Wimpole chalk grasslands but… there it was, with hundreds and hundreds of other ones by the Folly – it seems this spot was a good choice for this species.
Mullein
Yellow wort
Old man’s beard
Mint
Downy ragwort
Plantago
Angelica
Marjoram
Common poppy
Downy ragwort
Mullein
Scarlet pimpernel
Creeping buttercup
Hornbeam
Fleabane and mint
Slender vetch
Dandelion
Moss
Common toadflax
Small scabious seed head
Spiny restharrow
Groundsel
Prickly sow-thistle
Skullcap
Round leaved fluellen
Small scabious
Ox eye daisy
Broad-leaved willow herb
Dandelion
Autumn gentian
Cranesbill
Reedmace
Common reed
Bryony
Mullein
St John’s wort
Spear thistle
Bittersweet
Annual speedwell
Birdsfoot trefoil
Angelica
Bistort
Bramble
Cornflower
Gypsy wort
Willow
Agrimony
Meadowsweet
Old man’s beard
Corn marigold
Downy ragwort
Hawkweed
Bittersweet
American willow herb
Common reed
Old man’s beard
Hawkweed sp.
Water forget-me-not
Welted thistle
Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb
St John’s wort
Selfheal
Rough chervil
White clover
Pink campion
Fleabane
Hawkweed sp.
Cut-leaved cranesbill
Spear thistle
Teasel
Mint
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About Sadeik
You may ask why "Sadeik" well it means friend in arabic. Worked in Jordan a lot doing tree surgery you see. I have worked in forestry since I left school with a two years in Telecom. Went back to forestry and tree surgery as it may not have paid as much but was far more interesting and dangerous. Spent a lot of years mountaineering, caving and canoeing too. At 29 I went to Bangor University to study Forestry and soil science then did an MSc in Water engineering all very interesting. By a quirk of fate in 1995 ended up helping sort out the woodland and park at Wimpole, funny thing was then I only intended to stay six months or so, but 18 years later I'm still here learning all the time. That's the best bit, if I wasn't able to learn something new every year I would not have stayed and as you get older you realise that the grass is not so green in the next field after all. In fact my patch is getting greener while much of the rest is getting browner.
Blooming great.
Tresal? Is that what I know as teasel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsacus
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You have done an amazing job of reintroducing and increasing the numbers of wild flowers at Wimpole 🙂
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This gentian just began at the end of August and is blooming strongly now.
Enter At Your Own Risk…Gentiana asclepiadea
What might you find inside? Only you will know.
https://flahertylandscape.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/enzian-gentian-a-choice/
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