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Do you have difficulty in identifying plants...
Identification of British Plants Course 29th - 31st March 2010
The Field Studies Council in association with the Natural History Museum is running a course on plant identification in Lyme Regis, Dorset - you can find the details by going to their website - right click on the following link and open in a new tab/window: http://www.field-studies-council.org/2010/walkingandgeology/jurassiccoast.aspx and scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link.
Previously...
If you can spare just 3 minutes you ought to take a look at the Autumn slideshow on the www.bbc.co.uk website - photographs of glorious autumn scenes accompanied by extracts of poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Clare. Right click on the following link and open it in a new tab or window: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8345213.stm
Poppies, usually seen in full flower in July, have appeared following a ploughing
earlier this year of land owned by the farmer and conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Many people have been stopping to take photographs of this unusual site at the time of year (October).
Customers in Tisbury, Wiltshire, sowed our Wild Flower Meadow Mix and Cornfield Annuals seed in early April and have been thrilled with the results in July (see picture below).
The flowers you see are the annual ones which give tremendous colour in the first year whilst the perennial wild flower meadow species germinate and will take over next year.
Now it is necessary to take a cut - and remove the cuttings - to give space and light for the emerging perennial seedlings.
Cornfield Annuals seed can be sown in Autumn or Spring and will flower next June/July.