What constitutes a flower as " wild"
Jimgentracer writes
Does anyone know if a bluebell is in my garden, does that make it not a
wild flower and the same question goes, if I find a rose on a towpath
hedgerow is that making it a wild flower?
Usually a wild flower is taken to mean a british native, so the English
bluebell in your garden is a wild flower being cultivated in the garden,
and if the rose in the towpath hedgerow is a garden variety (as opposed
to a dog rose or one of the other british native species) then it's a
garden escape, not a wild flower.
Bit like animals. The hedgehog in your garden is still a wild animal,
even if you feed it nightly, whereas the cat living along the canal is
feral, not wild.
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Kay
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