The 1959 Injurious Weeds Act does not just apply to ragwort. It names four more species as well: broad leaved dock, creeping thistle, curled dock, and the spear thistle . The park has all of them.
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Ragwort again
This year the park produced beautiful hay: a variety of grasses, dry, sweet smelling, full of wildflower and not a single shred of ragwort anywhere.
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Water plantain ( Alisma plantago-aquatica) thriving in the Lambrok Tributary
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Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense) taken at dawn this morning by DKG.
Gallery of colours
A gallery of colour to lift the sombre, over-grown greens of all the latest pictures on the home page.
Hogweed
This has been a year of astonishing growth: more grass than we have ever seen, nettles at head height, trees and shrubs sagging under the weight of blossom. Our common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) is standing seven feet tall in places with flower-heads the size of dinner plates.
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by Ian Bushell
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This is Stachys sylvatica, commonly known as hedge nettle, hedge stachys or hedge woundwort. It is growing at the far end of Lambrok Meadow.
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Chris Seymour’s pictures of the park’s common spotted orchids.
Dog roses (Rosa canina) are in flower in the park’s hedges. We are promised good weekend weather so come and see.
Hemlock water dropwort
This is hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata), by some accounts the UK’s most poisonous plant.
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Common spotted orchids from DKG
The first common spotted orchid of the year, photographed by Ian Bushell. Send in your own orchid photographs to friendsofscp@outlook.com and we will publish them all.
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The yellow iris are in flower!
Click here for more picturesBarbarea vulgaris
Barbarea vulgaris also called bittercress, herb barbara, rocketcress, yellow rocketcress, winter rocket, and wound rocket
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