Sunday, February 03, 2013

February seedlings

Today I coppiced the sallows.  It is remarkable how vigorously they continue to grow without any fertilizer being added to the soil.

While working I noticed a seedling unfamiliar to me.

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I suspect it is ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, though it has some similarity to a primrose.  We will wait and see.

In mid-April last year many seedlings of the same kind came up in one corner of the box.

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Only one of these survived (I wonder how they decided) and now that its true leaves have developed it is clearly a bramble, Rubus fruticosus agg..

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I shall now have to wait for flower and fruit to discover which microspecies it is.