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canal-side Iris (update)
I has another look at this a couple of days back, and it does indeed
seem to be Iris siberica (hollow stems). -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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canal-side Iris (update)
In message , Janet Baraclough
writes The message from Stewart Robert Hinsley contains these words: I has another look at this a couple of days back, and it does indeed seem to be Iris siberica (hollow stems). Wonder if it was a garden escape or someone planted it. I think some houseboat dwellers beautify their moorings. Janet Some of the canalside plants are probably planted - there's one lock that has Rhus typhina, Vinca major and Lathyrus tuberosus next to it, but others, like this one, appear to be spontaneous. Garden escapes do turn up in the oddest places. I know two places where Sidalcea is growing "wild" (this is one of the sterile hybrids, so presumably they're throwouts of some form) - one is near a fishing pond on what I suspect was once industrial land, which I suspect arrived with some thrown out topsoil (the locality also has Alchemilla mollis and Lysimachia punctata), and the other is on top of a hill (the locality also has the broad-leaved bluebell which may or may not be Hyacinthoides hispanica). And I saw a sunflower in the middle of a potato field, and another growing in a crack in a canal bridge, and a tomato in the middle of a maize field. There also was a colony of potatoes growing in a roadside verge (I haven't seen it this year). But I'm still finding new genuinely wild plants, as well as garden escapes. The latest discovery is Ornithopus perpusillus (a little legume) found growing in mown grass along an exurban road. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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I know a nature reserve in the middle of the limestone dales which has some very domestic looking rhubarb
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canal-side Iris (update)
In message , kay
writes Stewart Robert Hinsley;892016 Wrote: Garden escapes do turn up in the oddest places. I know a nature reserve in the middle of the limestone dales which has some very domestic looking rhubarb Quarrymens' kitchen garden? -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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