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| A Plant a Day: October 23 |
| In September 23, we started doing this totally mad thing.. we gave ourselves the task of finding, identifying and photographing a different wild plant from our land every single day. We planned to do it till the plants ran out, or the days ran out, or we ran out.... whichever came sooner.... We got to mid January 24 just before cold and rain and wind meant we stopped being able to find any new plants on our daily searches and so we stopped looking and promised ourselves to return to the task when spring got going..... In April 24 we begin again, although are now tasking ourselves to find a 'flowering' plant each day or a totally new one - this will give us a chance to re-find the 133 plants found over the 23/24 winter but also to hopefully find new ones too.... |
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Current plant count on our land: = 57 (NEW this month = 31) |
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| October 31st 2023 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: a few  |
October 30th 2023 Horse chesnut - Aesculus hippocastanum Driveway On our land: just the one  |
October 29th 2023 Spear thistle - Cirsium vulgare Oak Field On our land: fairly common  |
| October 28th 2023 English oak - Quercus robur Swallow Field, inner hedgerow On our land: very, very common  |
October 27th 2023 Dog's mercury - Mercurialis perennis Gathering Area hedgerow On our land: very common  |
October 26th 2023 Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus Green Lane On our land: two saplings in Green Lane  |
| October 25th 2023 Cow parsnip - Heracleum maximum Garden, by pond On our land: very common  |
October 24th 2023 Aspen - Populus tremula Garden, by poultry gate On our land: a few in garden and Green Lane  |
October 23rd 2023 Common holly - Ilex aquifolium Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: a few  |
| October 22nd 2023 Common hazel - Corylus avellana Goat Field, outer hedgerow On our land: very common  |
October 21st 2023 Dog rose - Rosa canina Goat Field, inner hedgerow On our land: very common  |
October 20th 2023 Silver birch - Betula pendula Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: common in this hedgerow  |
| October 19th 2023 Wood avens - Geum urbanum Garden gravel On our land: very, very common  |
October 18th 2023 Common self-heal- Prunella vulgaris Garden gravel On our land: common on lawns  |
October 17th 2023 Orchard grass - Dactylis glomerata Swallow Field On our land: not seen often  |
| October 16th 2023 Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa Oak Field, inner hedgerow On our land: very, very common  |
October 15th 2023 Narrowleaf hawkweed - Hieracium umbellatum Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: not seen much  |
October 14th 2023 Broad-leaved willowherb - Epilobium montanum Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: not seen much  |
| October 13th 2023 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna Goat Field, inner hedgerow On our land: very common  |
October 12th 2023 Knotted cranesbill - Geranium nodosum Garden, gravel area (by back gate) On our land: not often seen  |
October 11th 2023 Welsh poppy - Meconopsis cambrica Garden, gravel area On our land: common in garden  |
| October 10th 2023 Greater knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa Goat Field, outer hedgerow On our land: not that common  |
October 9th 2023 Common gorse - Ulex europaeus Goat Field, outer hedgerow On our land: quite common  |
October 8th 2023 Woodland germander - Teucrium scorodonia Swallow Field, inner hedgerow On our land: common-ish  |
| October 7th 2023 False oat-grass - Arrhenatherum elatius Swallow Field, willow hedge On our land: common-ish  |
October 6th 2023 Spiny sow-thistle - Sonchus asper Allotment On our land: not often seen  |
October 5th 2023 Endres cranesbill - Geranium endressii Between Four-Fruit-Tree Area and Bees On our land: not often seen  |
| October 4th 2023 Crab apple - Malus sylvestris Goat Field, inner hedgerow On our land: two (other in garden)  |
October 3rd 2023 Black bryony - Dioscorea communis Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: seen a few  |
October 2nd 2023 Hedge woundwort - Stachys sylvatica Oak Field, outer hedgerow On our land: only seen one  |
| October 1st 2023 Common dandelion - Taraxacum officinale Garden On our land: very common  |
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