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.

Birdsfoot trefoil

Welted thistle

St John’s wort

Reedmace

Willow

Fleabane and mint

Bittersweet

Meadowsweet

Old man’s beard

Common reed

Ox eye daisy

Cornflower

Bittersweet

Spear thistle

St John’s wort

Downy ragwort

Groundsel

Bryony

Gypsy wort

Yellow wort

Angelica

Dandelion

Prickly sow-thistle

Creeping buttercup

Agrimony

White clover

Old man’s beard

Common reed

Water forget-me-not

Plantago

Downy ragwort

Corn marigold

Pink campion

Cranesbill

Teasel

Slender vetch

Selfheal

Spear thistle

Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb

Moss

Rough chervil

Old man’s beard

Fleabane

Small scabious seed head

Common poppy

Hawkweed sp.

Downy ragwort

Common toadflax

Hornbeam

Broad-leaved willow herb

Autumn gentian

Spiny restharrow

American willow herb

Mullein

Angelica

Marjoram

Small scabious

Dandelion

Bramble

Mint

Annual speedwell

Cut-leaved cranesbill

Round leaved fluellen

Mullein

Scarlet pimpernel

Hawkweed sp.

Skullcap

Mullein

Mint

Hawkweed

Bistort

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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