After a successful thread started back in March 2020 at the start of the first lockdown, its probably about time to start a new one for 2022. Thank you to all for your contributions, no matter how small or big, each has been valuable and interesting, and hopefully you will continue to contribute to the 2022 thread.
The old thread: Plants, flowers and shrubs; Share your photos here can be viewed on the link below
https://community.rspb.org.uk/chat/f/the-tea-rooms/206836/plants-flowers-and-shrubs-share-your-photos-here#pifragment-4313=1
I'll kickstart this thread with some snowdrops that have come out in flower, crocuses will be out in many places soon, and then daffodils, and many more to follow throughout the year, and it will be nice to see what wild or garden plants, flowers or shrubs you come across on your wanders or around your garden. Without these plants, flowers and shrubs, nature would struggle to survive, they all a part of the valuable cycle of life, insects need them, birds need the insects, and so on through to the mammals,
I mentioned daffodils, these shoots are growing very well among the snowdrops, and it won't be long before the bluebells start showing shoots...
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
After a week in sunny, and dry, North Wales, I came home to the welcome sight of tulips in full bloom, with a plus!
last year we had eight flowers, the year before was seven, and this year, NINE!
And they were barely buds before we went away!
I'd forgotten this one, I think a sweet violet, any correction or confirmation gratefully received.
And the underrated and overlooked common daisey....
Lovely photos Zo and nice to see the daisy getting some air time.
With the Orchid Iv seen Information and pictures with Wild Orchids but Iv never seen a Wild Orchid in real life before so it was the first time Iv ever seen one. But it’s one of the ones that come out in Spring. I only found them scattered near and right on the steep slope itself on the Common. They were absent every where else on the common. The rest were cowslip and Daisys. Not all of the flowers on the Orchid were open yet and there was some that was still growing but with the ones that had grown some of the flower heads were open. It’s scarce in the Midlands. It’s widespread but not as widespread as it once was. And Conservation wise it’s Threatened by destruction of Woodland and loss of Grassland habitats due to farming methods.
Zo Clark said:With the Orchid Iv seen Information and pictures with Wild Orchids but Iv never seen a Wild Orchid in real life before so it was the first time Iv ever seen one. But it’s one of the ones that come out in Spring. I only found them scattered near and right on the steep slope itself on the Common. They were absent every where else on the common. The rest were cowslip and Daisys. Not all of the flowers on the Orchid were open yet and there was some that was still growing but with the ones that had grown some of the flower heads were open. It’s scarce in the Midlands. It’s widespread but not as widespread as it once was. And Conservation wise it’s Threatened by destruction of Woodland and loss of Grassland habitats due to farming methods.
Its always good when you get your first sighting, no matter what the species, or how popular.