Jo Parmenter
@jo-the-botanist.bsky.social
Norfolk-based #BSBI #IAmABotanist & consultant ecologist (semi-retired, in order to spend more time looking at plants). Hobbies/Interests: looking at plants. Oh, and I cook things, too (including plants).
Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID
Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID
A little early for #Wildflowerhour, but I need to get on and cook dinner now ... we had a #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting yesterday on a 'less rainy than expected' sort of day and found shed-loads of pale galingale Cyperus eragrostis growing around a flooded concrete pad near Tunstead, East Norfolk.
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A little early for #Wildflowerhour, but I need to get on and cook dinner now ... we had a #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting yesterday on a 'less rainy than expected' sort of day and found shed-loads of pale galingale Cyperus eragrostis growing around a flooded concrete pad near Tunstead, East Norfolk.
Prickly saltwort Sasola kali still going strong near Gt Yarmouth pier
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Prickly saltwort Sasola kali still going strong near Gt Yarmouth pier
Perhaps my favourite fern (v hard to choose though) - rustyback Asplenium ceterach on the sea wall at Gt Yarmouth
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Perhaps my favourite fern (v hard to choose though) - rustyback Asplenium ceterach on the sea wall at Gt Yarmouth
Fragrant evening-primrose Oenothera stricta has made progress in colonising the consolidated dune grassland of north denes since my last visit
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fragrant evening-primrose Oenothera stricta has made progress in colonising the consolidated dune grassland of north denes since my last visit
The much-photoed shrubby hare's-ear Bupleurum fruticosum at Gt Yarmouth North Denes
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The much-photoed shrubby hare's-ear Bupleurum fruticosum at Gt Yarmouth North Denes
Slumbering giants between Easton and Covehithe
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Slumbering giants between Easton and Covehithe
Sea rocket Cakile maritima putting on a fantastic late show at Easton Broad in Suffolk.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sea rocket Cakile maritima putting on a fantastic late show at Easton Broad in Suffolk.
As we move deeper into the Norfolk autumn, the #NorfolkFloraGroup continues to venture forth and gather data. My group found itself in the high-altitude cloud-layer but undaunted, we continued to find a plethora of lovely plants and a relatively dry picnic spot on a sandy track with Hoary Cinquefoil
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As we move deeper into the Norfolk autumn, the #NorfolkFloraGroup continues to venture forth and gather data. My group found itself in the high-altitude cloud-layer but undaunted, we continued to find a plethora of lovely plants and a relatively dry picnic spot on a sandy track with Hoary Cinquefoil
Hybrid cat's-ear Hypochaeris x intermedia on sandy arable margin near Reydon (both parents present).
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hybrid cat's-ear Hypochaeris x intermedia on sandy arable margin near Reydon (both parents present).
Slender thistle Carduus tenuiflorus still flowering in a sandy arable margin near Reydon, Suffolk.
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Slender thistle Carduus tenuiflorus still flowering in a sandy arable margin near Reydon, Suffolk.
Slightly mildewed Stachys arvensis field woundwort on sandy arable margin near Covehithe today.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Slightly mildewed Stachys arvensis field woundwort on sandy arable margin near Covehithe today.
Developing saltmarsh around pools at Dunwich looking stunning
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Developing saltmarsh around pools at Dunwich looking stunning
Always a bit special to see Limbarda crithmoides Golden Samphire in East Anglia - these between Dunwich and Walberswick.
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Always a bit special to see Limbarda crithmoides Golden Samphire in East Anglia - these between Dunwich and Walberswick.
Corn spurred looking pretty at Benacre
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Corn spurred looking pretty at Benacre
Not been to Covehithe for a while. Eroding cliff top has been colonised by Jersey cudweed
November 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Not been to Covehithe for a while. Eroding cliff top has been colonised by Jersey cudweed
1st world problem? ... when your special lime drizzle cakes for the first #BSBIbotany #NorfolkFloraGroup winter meeting of 2025-26 are sadly compromised by a slightly over-risen profile so that the drizzle topping slides off. Edges will be very tasty, at any rate....
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
1st world problem? ... when your special lime drizzle cakes for the first #BSBIbotany #NorfolkFloraGroup winter meeting of 2025-26 are sadly compromised by a slightly over-risen profile so that the drizzle topping slides off. Edges will be very tasty, at any rate....
#wildflowerID help requested for mystery rosette on vaguely calcareous rewilding site west of Bircham Newton VC28 yesterday (i.e. possibly sown). My feeling is Scabiosa columbaria; other suggestions include Verbena sp. and Inula conyza (we have not arrived at a consensus!). Anyone have any thoughts?
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#wildflowerID help requested for mystery rosette on vaguely calcareous rewilding site west of Bircham Newton VC28 yesterday (i.e. possibly sown). My feeling is Scabiosa columbaria; other suggestions include Verbena sp. and Inula conyza (we have not arrived at a consensus!). Anyone have any thoughts?
Here is a screenshot instead
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Here is a screenshot instead
Our lovely #BSBI #Solanaceae Referee is away - in the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? Sandy arable margin, coastal SE Suffolk. From a couple of metres away I'd assumed S nitidibaccatum, but leaves well-dissected, and not at all glandular-hairy and so wondering about S sarrachoides.
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Our lovely #BSBI #Solanaceae Referee is away - in the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? Sandy arable margin, coastal SE Suffolk. From a couple of metres away I'd assumed S nitidibaccatum, but leaves well-dissected, and not at all glandular-hairy and so wondering about S sarrachoides.
I have been to the vegetable patch. Kitchen looks like a harvest festival has exploded in it. Tonight's menu will need to take in an eclectic mixture of Asian pear, beef tomatoes, grapes, random potatoes and things-in-the-fridge which need eating before a new life form emerges....
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I have been to the vegetable patch. Kitchen looks like a harvest festival has exploded in it. Tonight's menu will need to take in an eclectic mixture of Asian pear, beef tomatoes, grapes, random potatoes and things-in-the-fridge which need eating before a new life form emerges....
A trip to Suffolk wouldn't have been complete without calling in to see the hog's fennel Peucedanum officinale beside the footpath skirting Woodsend Marshes at Southwold
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A trip to Suffolk wouldn't have been complete without calling in to see the hog's fennel Peucedanum officinale beside the footpath skirting Woodsend Marshes at Southwold
@trisnorton.bsky.social I remembered the snail for scale this time
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@trisnorton.bsky.social I remembered the snail for scale this time
.. but then it magically appeared beside the track back to the cp
September 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
.. but then it magically appeared beside the track back to the cp
Anyone know this one? Guessing a Teucrium.... Landguard on sunny trackside. Sandy calcareous substrate.
September 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Anyone know this one? Guessing a Teucrium.... Landguard on sunny trackside. Sandy calcareous substrate.
Got it! Dozens of small plants of Chenopodium vulvaria on damp sandy mud and shingle around a shallow depression at Landguard Common. Thanks to @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for directions. Now on to see the Cynosurus echinatus I last found here in 1998...
September 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Got it! Dozens of small plants of Chenopodium vulvaria on damp sandy mud and shingle around a shallow depression at Landguard Common. Thanks to @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for directions. Now on to see the Cynosurus echinatus I last found here in 1998...