Friday, 26 March 2021

More early spring flowers round the village.

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I saw on Twitter a picture by Brian Laney, Northamptonshire's vice county recorder, who has encyclopaedic knowledge of Britain's flo...
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Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Early spring around the village

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Still in lockdown, I walked a few miles south of the village to a couple of meadows.  Although still quite early, I counted 20 flowering pla...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

William Fowler Memorial Wood - a lockdown walk

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  A short lockdown walk yesterday to a small reserve on the outskirts of Chipping Norton, the William Fowler Memorial Wood. Quoting from the...
Saturday, 8 August 2020

Fruit Set in the Greater Butterfly Orchids at Christmas Common

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Back in March I thought that the coronavirus restrictions might impede or worse, lead to the cancellation of the greater butterfly orchid st...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Greater Butterfly Orchid Study - Fourth Year

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The lockdown restrictions were eased just in time to allow me to travel down to Christmas Common in the Chilterns to count and measure the g...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Short term extremes of weather and the impact on plants

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Covid-19 must be serious; lack of rain for at least a month has not even been mentioned in the newspapers, and this in a country obsessed by...
Monday, 27 April 2020

Enjoying the Lockdown

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I think I have adapted well to confinement.   Staying close to home therefore (no more than 2 to 3 km away), the flowering plant count is no...