View Full Version : What is sprouting in your area?
bushcraftbob
08-04-2008, 16:40
Just interested to know what spring greens / edibles have started to grow in your area?
The hedgerows here are carpeted with Lesser Celandine and have also noticed the Pignut shoots are just protruding through the soil in my local copse. I haven't noticed any Hedge Garlic / Jack by the Hedge yet? I remember there was loads about last year but does this come on later in spring?
Toadflax
08-04-2008, 16:45
I haven't noticed any Hedge Garlic / Jack by the Hedge yet?
There's a couple of small shoots in my garden and I saw some in flower down by the river in Oxford today.
Geoff
Lesser celandine, bluebells, comfrey, coltsfoot, lady's smock, nettles and dockens are all showing around here, and the first buds are on the hawthorns too.
cheers,
Toddy
Loads of wild garlic about in these parts, some just about to flower. Nettles and a few other bits :)
Celt_Ginger
08-04-2008, 18:52
Pretty much just the hawthorns showing around here
Matt Weir
08-04-2008, 19:04
Ramsons, nettles, jack-by-the-hedge, goosegrass,
fred gordon
08-04-2008, 19:52
Can see very little as its still covered with snow! A few daffodils and some willow catkins.:(
nettles, oyster mushrooms, rabbits.
And the sloe gin
I have seen some borage growing in an isolated area, a few rats’ tail plantain leaves showing, and last week just picked a few black berry leaves for an impromptu tea.
MartiniDave
09-04-2008, 08:44
Hawthorn, catkins and a few bluebells at present.
Dave
Tor helge
09-04-2008, 16:42
Sadly nothing.
But the snow is slowly disappearing:) .
Tor Helge
amongst wild plants,
edible:
wild garlic, garlic mustard, raspberry leaves and the odd kale type thing
the rest:
dock, nettle, daffodils, bluebells, hawthorn, most of the umbels, comfrey, celandine, clover
etc.
i've done a lot of weeding recently.
Went for a walk yesterday...not all of these are edible
Wood Anemone
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0506.jpg
Prunus Blossom
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0512.jpg
Honeysuckle
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0508.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0511.jpg
Hawthorn
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0513.jpg
Primrose
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0540.jpg
Cow Parsley
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0542.jpg
Wood Spurge
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0547.jpg
Lesser Celandine
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0557.jpg
Jack by the Hedge
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0532.jpg
Willow catkins
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/scottyc20/IMG_0562.jpg
Also saw the usual nettles, blackberrybrambles, bluebells just pushing through, wood sorrel, ramsons, dandelions etc
This is a plum tree on my allotment yesterday
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/Johnnyvariety/plum.jpg
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 16:11
Lesser Celendine has bee out for ages here. Found A large flowering bunch of Ramsons the other day. I dont however know what the leaves are in the pictures below. If anyone knows, can you let me know. Cheers.
Unknown 1.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll132/IntrepidStu/UnknownLeaf_small.jpg
Unknown 2 As you can see, These are different views of the same leaf
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll132/IntrepidStu/Unknown_Small.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll132/IntrepidStu/Cramp_Small.jpg
Any Help appreciated guys!!
I also saw some specacular horse chestnut buds sprouting.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll132/IntrepidStu/HorseChetnut5small.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7358903.stm
there aint no hawthorn in flower round these parts, the blackthorn is out though.
the second plant in the photo is cow parsley dont recognise the first
just made me a salad of lambs quarters from my garden with foraged wild garlic and jack by the hedge. pretty strong. the wild garlic and jack by the hedge together.
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 18:43
the second plant in the photo is cow parsley dont recognise the first
just made me a salad of lambs quarters from my garden with foraged wild garlic and jack by the hedge. pretty strong. the wild garlic and jack by the hedge together.
RU sure about that??
The cow parsley leaves I have seen look more like bracken leaves.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll132/IntrepidStu/cowparsley2_lf.jpg
i'm sure the first is just a dock. maybe a curly dock.
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 18:55
i'm sure the first is just a dock. maybe a curly dock.
Yeah, I thought it may be a curly dock (aka Yellow Dock), but the other one is prevelent under ash trees, and boy, there is alot of it!!
the second is definitely one of the carrot family though stu, maybe wild parsnip or hogweed?
Looks like curled dock and hogweed to me....
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 19:42
OK, I was very confused there for a moment until I realised that Hogweed and Cow Parsnip are the same thing!!!
Cheers guys.
Stu
it would appear you are stepping into the mystifying world of umbellifers for the first time... its a minefield of poisonous plants and treachery.
it would appear you are stepping into the mystifying world of umbellifers for the first time... its a minefield of poisonous plants and treachery.
And a big interest to me...
Stu... Looking through the thread, it seems you have cow parsley and cow parsnip confused, not hogweed and cow parsnip... I do not think cow parsnip grows in this country (unless it is a local name for hogweed).
In the photo you last put up saying about the bracken like leaves, I agree, it looks like cow parsley... It is one of the early flowering members of the carrot family..
You do need to be especially careful of members of the carrot family. As mentioned some are poisonous, even deadly poisonous and some will bring you out in rashes even if you brush your skin against them..
Edit... It is mentioned in PFAF, so maybe it does grow here..?? http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Heracleum+sphondyli um+montanum
Has anyone come across it in the UK..?
Edit again... Sorry I have it wrong it seems (sort of..). Hogweed is heracleum sphondylium.. Cow Parsnip is heracleum maximum... So cow parsnip is a type of hogweed, but not our common hogweed... This research is really doing my head in now... Anyone else got any info..?
Sorry if I am doing your heads in too....
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 20:41
And a big interest to me...
Stu... Looking through the thread, it seems you have cow parsley and cow parsnip confused, not hogweed and cow parsnip... I do not think cow parsnip grows in this country (unless it is a local name for hogweed).
In the photo you last put up saying about the bracken like leaves, I agree, it looks like cow parsley... It is one of the early flowering members of the carrot family..
You do need to be especially careful of members of the carrot family. As mentioned some are poisonous, even deadly poisonous and some will bring you out in rashes even if you brush your skin against them..
Edit... It is mentioned in PFAF, so maybe it does grow here..?? http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Heracleum+sphondyli um+montanum
Has anyone come across it in the UK..?
Now I am confused.
http://dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/plants/hogweed.html
This is just one source that says cow parsnip is also called hogweed.
IntrepidStu
21-04-2008, 20:47
No No No. The picture of the "bracken like" leaves was posted in responce to someone who said my original picture was COW PARSLEY. I posted this picture to show the poster what cow PARSLEY looks like and that it is absent from my original picture.
No dissrespect mate, but did you actualy READ the thread. I am now TOTALY confused!!!
And a big interest to me...
Stu... Looking through the thread, it seems you have cow parsley and cow parsnip confused, not hogweed and cow parsnip... I do not think cow parsnip grows in this country (unless it is a local name for hogweed).
In the photo you last put up saying about the bracken like leaves, I agree, it looks like cow parsley... It is one of the early flowering members of the carrot family..
You do need to be especially careful of members of the carrot family. As mentioned some are poisonous, even deadly poisonous and some will bring you out in rashes even if you brush your skin against them..
Edit... It is mentioned in PFAF, so maybe it does grow here..?? http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Heracleum+sphondyli um+montanum
Has anyone come across it in the UK..?
this threads getting interesting now. the photos of the 'strimmers rash', on the page of your link, look very like a small patch on my neck which i haven't been able to explain. but i do a lot of strimming at work in the summer..
getting a bit off topic now though.
another plant which sprouting well at my place is wood avens.
mr dazzler
21-04-2008, 20:53
I just finished cutting annd splitting a cord of birch logs, I just raked up all the scrap and dust and tidied up, I looked at the hedge while I was burning the scraps, It looked absolutely marvellous, birch frond's, ash bud's, cherry tree in blossom, lots of new haw thorn growth after stripping out the ivy last year. It all is buzzing with energy and every thing was enlivend by a nice steady breeze. The ducks are still doing there flying circus routine round and round in circles I am sure they like the attention they get:lmao:
No No No. The picture of the "bracken like" leaves was posted in responce to someone who said my original picture was COW PARSLEY. I posted this picture to show the poster what cow PARSLEY looks like and that it is absent from my original picture.
No dissrespect mate, but did you actualy READ the thread. I am now TOTALY confused!!!
Please see my edits above....
I did read the thread as plants are a big interest to me, esp the umbellifers. But I may of got confused with it all much earlier that I realised....lol... I am now going to go and sit in a dark room and think about anything but parsnips or parsleys....
Sorry to of caused confusion...:confused: :confused: :confused: