#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
#SmallIsBeautiful #ClimateDiary

One of my absolute favourite wildflowers, Self-heal. It's probably a bit underrated because it's so ubiquitous, but it is beautiful. This is in the grass underneath the apple trees in our allotment. It was rock hard solid clay only a few years ago, covered in horsetail. Now we've got a fine mix of grasses, and gradually increasing diversity (wild carrot, common knapweed, red clover, oxeye daisy - mostly introduced via plug planting)
#Allotments #WildFlowers #Meadows #SelfHeal #OrganicGardening

My penultimate "wild" post: Self-heal, which is Prunella vulgaris in botanical Latin or in Cymraeg it's Craith Unnos (meaning "heal overnight" but literally translates as "one-night scar", aka Y feddyges las "the blue doctor"). Grows short in mown lawns and taller in uncut meadows but never an attention seeker. One of my favourite plants. :ecoanarchism_heart:

#30DaysWild #wildflowers #SelfHeal #nature

Puccinia brunellorum-moliniae ex Prunella vulgaris

#Prunellavulgaris #Prunella #Braunelle #selfheal #Brunelle #consuelda #Pucciniabrunellorummoliniae #Puccinia #rust #rost #rostpilz #rustfungus #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature

Velvet grass, a highly invasive species, has killed dogs and cats, and contains enough cyanide that it has even killed goats who ate too much. A turf grass that not only chokes out other species, it is allopathic and poisons its neighbors, and can inhibit tree growth. Introduced to my watershed in the form of two grass hay bales, spread on a small landslide in the winter of 2017.
My watershed is a rarity having high densities of healthy intact CA native prairie. In a few short years this shit has moved throughout the watershed. I spent 80 hrs in 2018 pulling velvet grass from ground zero, but unfortunately it escaped off site, and is colonizing the watershed at an alarming pace, spread by heavy equipment, car tires and the wind.
I just pulled every velvet grass seedling, before it set seed, on both sides of a four mile stretch of road. Im tired, heartbroken, and very angry.
My advice from doing decades of watershed restoration .......never, ever, ever, use any bales except rice straw as mulch.
Photos, Before and after weeding velvet grass (holcus lantanus) out of the ditch.
A lovely green and purple, low growing bed of Self-Heal ( prunella vulgaris) emerges. Self-Heal is both edible and medicinal.
#PrunellaVulgaris
#SelfHeal
#InvasivePlants
#VelvetGrass
#HolcusLantanus

Our second video live on YouTube - A Walk by the #River Orwell 😊 I am not good at "plants" so Karen is teaching me as we go along 🤣🙏 thank you for watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZG3GKCIivc

#selfheal #suffolk #suffolkcoast