A jumbled post to round up a few bits ....
A few weeks ago I collected a tenanted Taleporia tubulosa case from Kinchley Lane alongside Swithland Res. I've never had much success with these before, either no emergence or just a grubby female. At last I had a bit of luck when this emerged on 12th May ....
Limnephilus sparsus
Brindled Beauty
Silver Y
I recently got around to sorting out a vascular plant list for the garden,
which is almost certainly not complete but includes everything I can
attribute to a date/photo. I've added the paltry list to my Garden Lists
tab, and almost as soon as I'd done that I've found a couple of new plants
for the garden. We've completely let the garden go so far this spring, still
thinking it would be dug up soon only to find that the landscaper who let us
down last year has done it again - looking for a new one but there seems to
be a real issue with materials etc which is hampering efforts. I know we
should do it ourselves but I really haven't got the skills, energy or time
to do it justice. In the meantime, the lawn especially is popping up
wildflowers that have probably been there for years but never getting the
chance to get their heads above the mower. The two new species are
a Teasel growing next to the fence - likely from seed in
bird-droppings, and a few spikes of Common Mouse-ear in the lawn
(away from the Sticky Mouse-ear I found a couple of weeks ago that is more
prolific).
Teasel
Common Mouse-ear
Sticky Mouse-ear
Despite my inability to get my head around the Vegetative Key that I bought
early last year, I've gone and bought a similar key to grasses.
I gave it a whirl with some garden stems and got to Perennial Rye-grass, which
is probably right but I was far from confident. I think I need to try and work
through a couple of grasses that I know (or at least think I know) and take it
from there. Crucially, this key requires non-flowering stems (tillers).
I need to go back and have another look at the hawthorn galls in the week I
found as I may have cocked that up; there is a very similar fungal gall and
the aphids I saw may have been incidental (on the leaf, not inside the gall).
Remember me saying good things happen for LCFC when Selby wins the World
Championships? What a fantastic day out yesterday, almost like getting back to
normality and a massive personal boost on coping with life post-surgery.
Sealing the win and seeing the cup lifted by the Chairman Top Aiyawatt
Srivaddhanaprabha was emotional. A properly run Club with the fans and
community at the heart. Hopefully we can seal a Champions League place and
enjoy another European Tour next season ....
2 comments:
I wish I could use the vegetative key. I keep attempting it but my botanical knowledge falls foul pretty much every time, even trying it on stuff that I absolutely know what it is!
Well done to Leicester :)
Same here, but thought trying the process on grasses would be a bit easier - time will tell!
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