First the Bluebells, now the Ramsons

[Lyn and Malcolm]

Or Allium ursinum, and if you are Irish then Creamh.

These pictures were taken today, just a mile away from where we took the pictures of the Bluebells a couple of weeks ago.














Lots of other wild flowers including Orchids, we are checking out the names before any posting.

Malcolm

[ideasguy]

Fantastic show there Malcolm. That really is a remarkable place. Ive never seen those flowers over here. Perhaps I need to get out more!
And you say theres more wild flowers in there! Looking forward to seeing them when youve made an ID.
 

[Lyn and Malcolm]

George said

Ive never seen those flowers over here

Look for the link for the distribution in Ireland.

http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=220&wildflower=Ramsons


Malcolm

[ideasguy]

Excellent website, Malcolm. Thanks for the link!
Ive enjoyed having a look over the website - a great place to peruse on tea breaks!
Very well presented and crammed with very useful information.
The Ransoms are unfamiliar to me, but perhaps its beacause our Easter vists to the forest parks around here (in the North of Ireland) are earlier in the season, before they come into flower.

[Lyn and Malcolm]

George wrote

Looking forward to seeing them when youve made an ID.
 

The wild flowers are now identified, probably best to give a link to our webpage with the pictures.

http://www.photography.lynandmalc.co.uk/garstonwood.htm

Malcolm

[ideasguy]

I'm impressed, Malcolm!
Great photos as usual, but youve done your research well to identify the plants.
Thats a very useful resourse youve created 

[NightHawk]

That looks like a beautiful area to visit Malcolm.  It's a pity it's so far away for us. 

Kathy and I are starting to get out a lot more now.  We used to be ardent country walkers but other things took priority and we got out of the routine of it for a while.

We've recently joined a local bird club and hope to get more socialising done and get out into the countryside a lot more again.

Needless to say that, as well as my scope, I'll have my trusty Nikon camera with me and take advantage of the plants around at the time in the various locations we visit.

Great photos on your web site. 

Laurie.

[NightHawk]

We have a few Bluebells in our rear garden at the moment and they appear to be of the Spanish variety. 

Kathy got some of these bulbs from her mum a while ago but we didn't know at the time what they were.

Kathy keeps digging them up every time they appear but they just keep on coming, and coming, and coming........ (yawn).  In this case they are a WEED.  Not got any of the native Bluebells though.  Sorry about that folks but it's beyond our control. 

We love Bluebells, but as our borders are quite small we just don't have the space to allocate to the native variety. 

The photos of Bluebells posted so far are great - lovely to see.

Laurie.

[Lyn and Malcolm]

George and Laurie
Thank you both for your nice comments on the pictures.

Because we were with a Birding group for the Garston wood walk, I didn't have much time to grab the pictures, so was quite pleased to get the Ramsons showing something like as they were.

We are lucky to have such a lot of different habitats around us, the sea, although we never go there in the summer, the New Forest, the Purbeck hills, downland and woodland, heath, rivers ect. But do have a main road within about 20 metres of the house, which fortunatley is a lot quiter at night, more so recently.

As you have Laurie, we get a few bluebells trying to come up in our garden, but Lyn trys to dig the odd one out, normally breaks it off as they are so deep down.

Malcolm

[Eric Hardy]

I have only just noticed these shots Malcolm. What a display and great pictures too! Is that what I call wild garlic? We don't get that in the beech woods round here, just the bluebells, although, as I have mentioned before we have it in the garden in a controlled patch and use the leaves in the kitchen. In my youth in Teesdale I remember vast areas of the wild garlic following the bluebells in the woods near Barnard Castle.

Eric H

[Lyn and Malcolm]

Eric said

Is that what I call wild garlic

Yes Eric it is.

Malcolm