WILD FLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILST OUT WALKING 2018

Deal

Seeds are ripe now

 

Not flowers but...
Fly Agaric.


Porcelain Fungi.

 

Brassica oleracea

 

I'm guessing that is on the cliffs at Dover.
I can remember roaming around there in the late 70s early 80s before the NT took over the place, no restaurant, just an ice cream van in those days.
I also remember seeing these cabbages growing around the gun emplacements, I used to think they were just remnants from WW2, where soldiers had perhaps grown a few veg.

Never occurred to me they might be native wild plants.

 

Yep, Dover

Native to both sides of the channel coasts, ancestor of most cabbages, broccoli, sprouts etc.

Much more rubbery leaves than cultivated cabbages, I made Tetters have a good feel

 

..... Everso very rubbery

 

Found my first Sea Buckthorn today, Hippophae rhamnoides

 

We now have Milk Thistles growing locally, that turned up in some imported topsoil. I've read suggestions about adding them to homebrew to mitigate any adverse effects of alcohol The Supplement You Should Absolutely Consider Before a Night Out



Wonder if the rude filter will overide the botanical name?

Silybum marianum