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I seem to recall a website with quality photos of the most common
weeds in the British Isles, but Google as I might, I don't seem to be able to find it. The nearest thing to crop up is a not very satisfactory Bayer website. Can anyone help? TIA! Cat(h) |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... I seem to recall a website with quality photos of the most common weeds in the British Isles, but Google as I might, I don't seem to be able to find it. The nearest thing to crop up is a not very satisfactory Bayer website. Can anyone help? TIA! Cat(h) Try Images in Google. http://tinyurl.com/69k23a Regards, Emrys Davies |
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, "Cat(h)" writes I seem to recall a website with quality photos of the most common weeds in the British Isles, but Google as I might, I don't seem to be able to find it. The nearest thing to crop up is a not very satisfactory Bayer website. Can anyone help? TIA! Cat(h) Try * http://www.plant-identification.co.uk * http://www.bioimages.org.uk -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On Jul 14, 2:33*pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , "Cat(h)" writesI seem to recall a website with quality photos of the most common weeds in the British Isles, but Google as I might, I don't seem to be able to find it. *The nearest thing to crop up is a not very satisfactory Bayer website. Can anyone help? TIA! Cat(h) Try *http://www.plant-identification.co.uk "more on this page coming soon" :-) *http://www.bioimages.org.uk This is good, but it assumes I know what I am looking for - which I don't. I know my weeds from pulling them out of my garden, hence visually only. I would like a site which shows me photos or good drawings, and then tells me the name of what I am dealing with. As you can tell, I am just a little demanding :-) Thanks to you and Emrys for your suggestions! Cat(h) |
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, "Cat(h)" writes On Jul 14, 2:33*pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , "Cat(h)" writesI seem to recall a website with quality photos of the most common weeds in the British Isles, but Google as I might, I don't seem to be able to find it. *The nearest thing to crop up is a not very satisfactory Bayer website. Can anyone help? TIA! Cat(h) Try *http://www.plant-identification.co.uk "more on this page coming soon" :-) Follow the link to Skye (it has a great variety of wild plants there), or do a Google search on that site. But it would have the same problem as the other - you have to know roughly what you're looking for. *http://www.bioimages.org.uk This is good, but it assumes I know what I am looking for - which I don't. I know my weeds from pulling them out of my garden, hence visually only. I would like a site which shows me photos or good drawings, and then tells me the name of what I am dealing with. As you can tell, I am just a little demanding :-) I can usually identify a wild flower to genus, or at least family, at which point I can refer to one of the several field guides on my shelf, or dig round the web for images. There's probably about a thousand species of wild plant to be found in your area. But I've only tallied up a little over 200 here so far this year (but I haven't attempted to include grasses) - the number of common/widespread plants is smaller. The number of species which are common enough for you to encounter then as a weed is probably about 100. (OTOH, the only place I've seen small toadflax is on one of the allotments on the local site, and until yesterday the only location I knew for greater bird's foot trefoil was my back garden (I've just found it in a country park 8 miles away).) Thanks to you and Emrys for your suggestions! Cat(h) -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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