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Spiked Speedwell Veronica spicata still flowering beautifully in the Avon Gorge.
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A surprise find in the shape of Dittrichia viscosa Woody Fleabane on the central reservation of a dual carriageway outside Southampton. Made my day!
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May not be much to look at, but this is the very rare Potamogeton nodosus Loddon Pondweed looking rather attractive in a river on the Hampshire Berkshire border.
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Thanks Paul, that’s useful to know. Glad it’s been reintroduced.
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Oh no ! I read about the lorry fire, which I found upsetting as it was carrying live hens. Very sad. So glad you saw the purslane. I must go myself.
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That is the best! Have yet to see it.
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What a great plant. Love it. Is that a reintroduction site for it?
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Now that is a great orange!!
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Beautiful leaves! I’d like to see both of those.
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Another one for Sorbus fans: the rare Sorbus domestica growing on coastal cliffs in a remote spot along the river Severn.
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One of my favourite species of dock: Rumex maritimus, golden dock, looking particularly golden in a damp meadow in Cambridgeshire
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For Sorbus fans: Sorbus herefordensis growing on the edge of woodland in Herefordshire ( of course). A very handsome tree!
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Not your usual mugwort, this is Chinese mugwort, which flowers much later in the season and has different leaves to common mugwort.
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End of summer colour: golden samphire still putting on a great display along the sea wall at Broadmarsh, Hampshire.
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This little beauty is the hybrid between common and pale toadflax, Linaria x sepium. Growing with Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire
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Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, flowering happily on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire
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I found this persicaria capitata legging it down a drainpipe in Falmouth town centre! Made me smile 😃
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Carline thistle looking particularly golden in the evening sun in Sharp Tor point, Devon
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A trip to Dartmoor is not complete without seeing this gem, ivy leaved bellflower. Love seeing this!
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Crataegus persimilis
broad-leaved cockspur thorn growing well away from any garden, at the foot of a disused railway embankment in a remote part of north Devon