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nt on i left it as long as i could because i thought it was still a bit cold but i can t leave it any longer why what s wrong with fizz well in my experience women have a finer eye for this sort of detail than men do and anyway it is not very nice out i may not even walk her today and if i do i won t take my camera it is not because of the bad weather but i always feel guilty waiting for her to come back from the beauty parlour it must cost a few bob and they go to all this trouble to get a lovely clean tidy dog and the moment she gets home we go out and roll in mud i might let them enjoy their clean dog for one day i walk fizz more to give her the stimulation and interest than to exercise her she could run around on her hamster wheel if she needed exercise i expect that she will find three hours at the bp stimulating enough for today so what to do i am going to talk about bluebells we will be going to see them soon when i was out finding new speedwells i noticed a few other flowers about there was a lot of bugle but this is really such a nice flower that it deserves a post of it s own when the weather is better the other thing that i saw a lot of was the enemy this is not a bluebell well it is not a hyacinthoides non scripta a native british bluebell it doesn t really look anything like a bluebell it is not the same shape this is a hybrid of the spanish bluebell and a sweet and innocent english bluebell that was seduced because of her innocence the key to telling the species apart is normally given as the pollen colour come here you show them this is what the natural history museum has to say the easiest way to tell the difference between native and non native bluebells is to look at the colour of the pollen if it is creamy white then the bluebell is a native if it is any other colour such as pale green or blue then it is definitely not native these are native so what is this if it is creamy white then the bluebell is a native no sir you are wrong growing in amongst these obvious hybrids there were a lot of white hybrids i searched every flower and there was not a trace of blue or green pollen to be seen every single one was creamy white once upon a time these flowers would have been shot as spies they are out of uniform but they most definitely are not hyacinthoides non scripta this is what a white native bluebell looks like the enemy is at our door and it seems that in many cases they are becoming smarter than us more vigilance is called for photos of a newly shorn fizz will be coming up soon share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading bugle hyacinthoides massartiana hyacinthoides non scripta hybrid bluebell native bluebell nature wildflowers insects tramp s bestiary tramp s herbal true flies wild flowers educated fleas may 4 2015 fodrambler 20 comments i thought that i would take fizz up in the fields and take her picture in amongst the dandelions but i became distracted this is st mark s fly bibio marci we call it that because they all emerge around about the same time april the twenty fifth and that is st mark s day they are a little bit late this year these first picture are of the male he has large eyes and clear wings also very long back legs that hang below him in flight last year i searched in vain for a female of the species they look quite different the problem is that the adults only live for about a week and as they all emerge at the same time there is very little opportunity to see them and there she was distracting me i forgot all about fizz she has small eyes she is a little bit longer than the male and has dark wings but even though she looks so different i am quite confident that this is the female of the species i have heard it said that the male has such big eyes so that he can find the female and that is quite believable i had a lot of trouble finding her the dandelions are beginning to fade now the buttercups are just starting to appear as soon as the dandelions go these fields will fill with buttercups it looks like these fields are going to be grown for silage again this year the grass is already too long for sheep that is good because for a few months we will get long grass and lots of wildflowers and all of the associated insects i will leave you with the firework display called ribwort plantain share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading bibio marci buttercups dandelions insects nature plantago lanceolata ribwort plantain st mark s fly taraxacum wildflowers tramp s herbal wild flowers my new speedo s may 4 2015 fodrambler 34 comments oh no i am going to write a post about a speedwell flower i discovered one today that i hadn t seen before there are quite a lot of them anyway you are not even in my post tonight oh please did you wash your face this morning veronica filiformis this is slender speedwell worldwide there are about 500 species in the veronica genus and in the uk we have about two dozen different speedwell flowers half of those are quite rare and the rest well it is just a case of finding them and photographing them this is number seven for me with so many little blue flowers around the problem is usually recognising that i am looking at a species that i haven t seen before it is very easy to see a little blue flower and just think speedwell in this case i saw a fairly dense matt of pale flowers and thought wow speedwells without any leaves they do have leaves they are just quite small so here is my list to date germander speedwell veronica chamaedrys heath speedwell veronica officinalis ivy leaved speedwell veronica hederifolia persian or common field speedwell veronica persica thyme leaved speedwell veronica serpyllifolia wood speedwell veronica montana and now of course slender speedwell veronica filiformis so many veronicas i love finding new flowers and i love my speedwell collection i would like to add a few more this summer i am sorry that this daily post is late we have been having power cuts all day it goes on and it goes off and it has been going on for ages very strange i am probably the only person being bothered by it because it is now the middle of the night and everybody else is asleep but it is still annoying me fortunately i have got my light in a bag it is called a luminaid and it is a solar charged lantern it throws out enough light to fill the room that i am in and i can read by it and for sleeping in the woods and stuff like that it is perfect it charges itself in the day and runs all night i am not being sponsored to say this but i will see if i can find a video about it because i am loving my luminaid tonight fizz hasn t got one but she is asleep this is not an advert i think it is a kind of charity thing i am not sure that i am allowed to put adverts on here but nobody is getting paid for anything here and if you want one then you have to go and find one for yourself and all sorts of places sell them i did get approached by a company recently who asked if i would like to write about their product on my blog but i didn t really know what it was and so that is on hold for the moment this little light really works and deserves a free mention tonight because it is dark here on and off i might like to do some kit reviews one day it would be things like buffalo pile clothing i bought my first buffalo sleeping bag thirty years ago frosts knife makers of sweden they are called mora now but i still have my frosty my little vango wood burning stove that has been on here once there is kit that i have used for ages and i know that it is good but it wouldn t be paid for advertising on that controversial note i will say goodnight good morning share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading speedwell veronica chamaedrys veronica filiformis veronica hederifolia veronica montana veronica officinalis veronica persica veronica serpyllifolia wildflowers tramp s herbal wild flowers forget me do s may 2 2015 fodrambler 35 comments there is very little point in holding on to the past what is gone is gone today i am in the best place that i have ever been in my life it is completely peaceful here full of birdsong and the scent and colour of wildflowers i am letting go of all that used to be that was hard work so my overly sweet and pretty little friend you are a wood forget me do it is not always easy to get forget me do s to species the wood forget me do is very similar to the field variety a british pound coin has a diameter of 22 5 mm about the size of a wedding ring i guess these flowers look about 7 8 mm across three to the pound field forget me do s are about half that size 3 4 mm these flowers are also quite flat the shape of the calyx pushes the petals of the field flower up making more of a cup shape out of it the calyx of the field variety is almost bell shape with the tips of the sepals closing to a point the wood variety is more linear with an open end in both cases the individual flower stalks are about twice the length of the calyx that pedicle length is key to separating some of the smaller species and so it should be noted locally it is in flower now and you can see it in all the more open hedgerows as you walk into the village dodging the devilish little lambs the large flower of the wood forget me do is the source of most of the garden varieties goodbye whatever your name was i am afraid that it has gone again i do remember that you were a very pretty little flower share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading forget me nots myosotis sylvatica nature wildflowers wood forget me not tramp s herbal wild flowers hanky panky may 1 2015 fodrambler 25 comments ha i have heard it said that the devil makes work for idle hands maybe he does i don t know about that today we are going to talk about monkey business of the botanical kind i just want to mention the star of today s show pretending to be old nick himself this beautiful little innocent is one of our asbo lambs born into the wild this one has survived i just met him about an hour ago and i was struck by his inner beauty i wish he was mine let s talk about flowers and hanky panky primroses are lovely no question about that the cowslip is so tall and strong handsome even that is just another word for beautiful but should we leave them alone together i don t know how much that you know about the birds and the bees but if you leave primroses and cowslips alone together then there is a very fair chance that they will get up to hanky panky this is a flower called the false oxlip real oxlips are very rare and a species in their own right a false oxlip is the result of a liaison between a primrose and a cowslip we are not here to judge it seems to me to be a very beautiful offspring his mum was not what i would call a looker but i noticed his sister beautiful animals share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading cowslip domesticated life false oxlip nature primrose primula veris primula vulgaris butterflies tramp s bestiary tramp s herbal wild flowers playing with butterflies april 30 2015 fodrambler 40 comments it is a miserable one today a cold wind has blown in from somewhere and brought lots of cloud with it it is a good day to demonstrate my butterfly handling technique they will be at my mercy the poor little things can t do anything about it they need sunshine they need to be warm to fly and they will be very lethargic today the first butterfly that we found was a female orange tip the first trick is the weather i have been out at two o clock on a sunny afternoon and can not get anywhere near them i am already very close to this one and she would have flown away if she could she is too cold and i can do what i want with her now you must not touch her in any way only she may touch you she is very easy to break and we are big and clumsy just put your finger right in front of her minding her antennae and legs and just depress the flower a little bit you can talk about politics or the economy but not war it has to be gentle depression as the flower gives way under her feet she will step forward onto your finger and once her front feet are on you can just roll your finger under her and you have her i don t exactly have this one where i wanted i wanted her on my finger tip for display purposes but she has crawled onto my knuckle and i can t move her this will do it is a butterfly fizz i have picked this one up because she was in deep shade i am going to move her into the sunshine as soon as she feels the sun she will open her wings and bask and she will fly away it will only take about two seconds for her to warm up enough to fly so i have to get lucky with my photographs and she has gone the pictures aren t great but never mind we will try again later you can only do this with the white ones any of the whites this little speckled wood was flitting all over the place a little bit of cloud doesn t bother him it is simply because white reflects light and heat and dark colours like brown absorb it and the speckled wood warms up much easier than the orange tip and flies on much cooler days i have never been able to approach or pick up a speckled wood or any of the other dark ones sometimes they will land on me by chance and of course if you raise them as your own you can release them but that is as good as it gets now i am just going to leave the butterflies for a moment because i have noticed the seed pods of that flower she was sitting on and i want those photographs it is garlic mustard thank you for indulging me i needed those photographs for my files i have just noticed another flower have you ever wondered where primroses go when they die hmmm a small lack of floral compassion perhaps anyway i have and i care i want to know so i am choosing a nice female plant with pin flowers i am going to perform a couple of autopsies on her dead sisters very interesting this is how we find things out perhaps if i sewed them back together and passed electricity through them then i could reanimate them now which bit went with which back to the butterflies and we have found another orange tip this one is a male just in case there is anyone in the world who wonders how i can tell the male from the female well it is only the male who actually has orange tips to his wings on the inside with a few years of practice and an element of expertise in this field absolutely anyone can tell the difference i am not going to try and pick this one up he is as docile as the female was and 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