Flowers Chamomile releases a beautiful, apple-like scent when crushed. For this reason, it was used in Elizabethan times as a plant for l...
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Showing posts with label Wildflowers. Show all posts
Wild liquorice
Wildflowers A sprawling plant, wild liquorice often has large, kinked stems. It favours woodland, scrub and grassland habitats on chalky ...
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Lesser water-parsnip
Wildflowers Look out for the white, umbrella-like flower heads of lesser water-parsnip along the shallow margins of ditches, ponds, lakes...
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Vervain
Wildflowers An introduced plant, vervain is widely naturalised in the UK. It is a great source of nectar for all kinds of insects and can...
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Hairy violet
Wildflowers Living up to its name, the hairy violet is covered in fine hairs. Look for its delicate, violet flowers blooming from March t...
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Dwarf milkwort
Wildflowers Dwarf milkwort is a rare plant of chalk and limestone grasslands with short turf; it can mainly be found in Kent, Yorkshire a...
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Meadow saffron
Wildflowers A late-blooming flower, Meadow saffron looks like a crocus, displaying similar pink flowers once its leaves have died back. I...
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Melancholy thistle
Wildflowers As its name suggests, the Melancholy thistle was once used to treat 'melancholia' (depression). Today, it can be foun...
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Greater water parsnip
Wildflowers Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occur...
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Pepper saxifrage
Wildflowers Pepper saxifrage is a classic plant of unimproved hay meadows and roadside verges. It's upright, branching stems carry umb...
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Yellow star-of-Bethlehem
Wildflowers The Yellow star-of-Bethlehem is a woodland plant that lives up to its name - it displays starry, gold flowers in an umbrella-...
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Horseshoe vetch
Wildflowers Horseshoe vetch is a member of the pea family, so displays bright yellow, pea-like flowers and seed pods. Look for this low-g...
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Top 10 Flowering Plants
One of the most satisfying and healthy chores you can do while at home is gardening. It helps you relax and is quite fun when you have the...
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Lesser stitchwort
Look for the pretty, star-shaped, white flowers of Lesser stitchwort in woodlands and meadows, and along hedgerows and roadside ...
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Broad-leaved helleborine
A tall orchid of woodland and scrub, the broad-leaved helleborine has greenish, purple-tinged flowers that look a little 'dr...
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Pyramidal orchid
The pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green s...
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Greater butterfly-orchid
The Greater butterfly-orchid is a tall orchid of hay meadows, grasslands and ancient woodlands. It has whitish-green flowers th...
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Field cow-wheat
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four s...
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Fen violet
A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A r...
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Fen Violet
A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A real speci...
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