Spotting flowers growing wild in the South East
Two local violets revisited I wasn’t expecting to write another post so soon on violas, but I’ve had so much help online, it would be a shame not to get it all down while I remember! In my previous post I spotted two different looking violas in the verges of Alfriston Rd, Seaford. Viola hirta…
Hairy violet vs Sweet violet Viola hirta vs Viola odorata If you read my previous post about wild plants in flower in January you will notice I listed a couple of violets. Despite decades of interest in plants, I’m not a trained botanist, and I must admit that sometimes the thought of an identification key brings…
Town plants Walking around Seaford in winter There are plenty of wild plants in flower even in January as evidenced by the BSBI New Year Plant Hunt. I go walking most days, and either I walk to my dried flower workshop or for a brisk half hour health walk, and there is often something new to…
Fragrant winter heliotrope is almost over I’ve just been out for a walk in Seaford past this large swathe of wildflower leaves. It is winter heliotrope, Petasites fragrans. Identifying winter heliotrope I only recently found out what this was. I had photographed some heliotrope flowers last year in Seaford, but hadn’t used the pics. Then…