What bloomed in August?

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.

Bittersweet

Moss

Birdsfoot trefoil

Mullein

Autumn gentian

Common reed

Groundsel

Hawkweed

Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb

Fleabane

Dandelion

Plantago

American willow herb

Yellow wort

Corn marigold

Pink campion

Gypsy wort

Small scabious seed head

Ox eye daisy

Common reed

Rough chervil

Spear thistle

Small scabious

Hawkweed sp.

Common toadflax

Mullein

Hornbeam

Downy ragwort

Bramble

Creeping buttercup

Selfheal

Broad-leaved willow herb

Bryony

Agrimony

Cornflower

Reedmace

Cranesbill

Willow

St John’s wort

Mullein

Angelica

Bistort

Scarlet pimpernel

Old man’s beard

Mint

Old man’s beard

Angelica

Bittersweet

Welted thistle

White clover

Annual speedwell

Old man’s beard

Cut-leaved cranesbill

Slender vetch

Water forget-me-not

Fleabane and mint

Downy ragwort

St John’s wort

Round leaved fluellen

Common poppy

Marjoram

Prickly sow-thistle

Meadowsweet

Hawkweed sp.

Mint

Spiny restharrow

Spear thistle

Skullcap

Downy ragwort

Teasel

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.

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3 Responses to What bloomed in August?

graemeu says:

August 28, 2016 at 22:45

Blooming great.
Tresal? Is that what I know as teasel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsacus

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Sarah Dawson Jewellery says:

August 30, 2016 at 12:49

You have done an amazing job of reintroducing and increasing the numbers of wild flowers at Wimpole 🙂

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flahertylandscape says:

September 20, 2016 at 14:18

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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