tony from suffolk
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Whoops, spelling's gone a bit odd… meant convolvulus!
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Lankyman
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Yes it does look like that. I can't say I've noticed it round where I live before.
Mr Dinwiddy
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The plant with the greyish leaves and blue flowers in the big shingle is Oysterplant. Its characteristic of shingle beaches but has a Scottish distribution so English beach botanists might not be familiar with it. There are English records from the 1970s and no-one seems sure of the cause of its northern shift. It could be damage through shingle removal/loss, and/or grazing pressure and/or more storm damage to plants and possibly higher temperatures inhibiting seed production. Most likely a combination of these.
The succulent looking plant with opposite leaves and white flowers is sea sandwort. That is found round the whole UK coast. It has creeping roots (stolons) that adapt it to cope with mobile substrates like sand or fine shingles.
Enjoying your photos Lankyman
The succulent looking plant with opposite leaves and white flowers is sea sandwort. That is found round the whole UK coast. It has creeping roots (stolons) that adapt it to cope with mobile substrates like sand or fine shingles.
Enjoying your photos Lankyman
AnaisW
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Your description made me think about how small natural details can lift a mood, even indoors. On quieter days I’ve brought a bit of that feeling home by using indoor plant delivery from time to time, which helped me notice tiny things like new leaves or colours the same way I notice plants on walks. It’s a nice way to keep that sense of paying attention to nature going.
Lankyman
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Today mostly walking round the coast on the easternmost part of Mainland Orkney. You have to watch your step as there are some fairly lethal drops. Still a lot of nesting seabirds. Bird's-foot trefoil
Lots of sea pinks, usually right on the brink (extra points if you can spot the fulmars)
We also encountered a white orchid which I presume is a Northern Marsh orchid variant
Lots of sea pinks, usually right on the brink (extra points if you can spot the fulmars)
We also encountered a white orchid which I presume is a Northern Marsh orchid variant
Karen L
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Bagpuss, I think it's a Common Orchid, but they can take many forms as they cross-pollinate. And the Forget-Me-Not, might be Brooklime, especially if it's growing in water. :-D
Very envious of you being on Exmoor. ;-)
bagpuss
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Thanks had assumed Marsh Orchid as it was in very boggy ground!
I think the other is water forget me knot possibly as the flower shape matches up, doesn't compare to Brooklime which I think has less petals?
Lankyman
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We've moved north onto Westray for a few days. It's definitely Bird Central up here on the coast but still some dense displays of sea pinks (mostly right on the edge of a pretty terminal plunge!). The ledges are stuffed full of mainly guillemots, kittiwakes and gannets with a sprinkling of puffins, all sitting in their own poo. Your eyes almost water with the hum.
We did come across a small patch of thyme and also the first butterworts in flower I've seen so far - good guys seeing as they eat midges although the wind up here means they aren't such a nuisance.
We did come across a small patch of thyme and also the first butterworts in flower I've seen so far - good guys seeing as they eat midges although the wind up here means they aren't such a nuisance.
langcliffe
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This beautiful flower is emblematic of the Chartreuse massif. It's the St. Bruno lily, named after St. Bruno who founded the Carthusian monastic order in Chartreuse in 1084, and is to be found above about 1,500 metres.
langcliffe
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It is indeed! If you ever need confirmation try sniffing it...
langcliffe
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Indeed. I've only seen them in Chartreuse, and not very often.
langcliffe
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Here's a group of Clusian gentians, as seen in my avatar. It's a flower that lifts the spirits. The photo isn't very good, as I was trying to capture the ones in the shade where the deep blue comes out, but couldn't avoid the neighbouring unshaded areas.
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Karen L
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I never thought to do that, the only ones I know that have much of a smell are Fragrants. I shall do more sniffing from now on!
Karen L
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There were about six plants not far from the campsite we were staying in, along with a pair of Lizard Orchids, but we saw more Lizards later on our walk.
Lankyman
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Is there a connection to 'Vaucluse' (of the big spring)?
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