What bloomed in August?

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Sadeik

 

Autumn gentian

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.

Agrimony
Common toadflax
Yellow wort
Birdsfoot trefoil
Common reed
Cornflower
Bittersweet
St John’s wort
Bramble
Mint
Spear thistle
Downy ragwort
Prickly sow-thistle
Bistort
Mint
American willow herb
Welted thistle
Willow
Angelica
Teasel
Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb
Meadowsweet
Pink campion
Small scabious seed head
Plantago
Old man’s beard
Round leaved fluellen
Spiny restharrow
Hawkweed sp.
Water forget-me-not
Bryony
Downy ragwort
Selfheal
Fleabane and mint
Slender vetch
Hornbeam
Autumn gentian
Scarlet pimpernel
Dandelion
Mullein
Ox eye daisy
Common reed
Mullein
Groundsel
Marjoram
Fleabane
Reedmace
Cranesbill
Spear thistle
Old man’s beard
Gypsy wort
Dandelion
St John’s wort
Angelica
Rough chervil
Broad-leaved willow herb
Cut-leaved cranesbill
Hawkweed
Mullein
Bittersweet
Creeping buttercup
Common poppy
Annual speedwell
Hawkweed sp.
Downy ragwort
Corn marigold
Moss
Old man’s beard
Small scabious
White clover
Skullcap

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?

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

    Enzian::your choice

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