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Help with identifying plants in school wildlife garden
Good evening fellow gardeners!
I'm (still) working through identifying the plants in the school wildlife garden, and after hours of looking on websites and going through all my books...I admit defeat...Could you help? I'm putting together a concept board with plant idents and a plan of the garden and these plants are the missing pieces....
thanks again for your help. It makes a huge difference!
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Bracken at the top
I think Hazel next, A pic of the bark would confirm (or not)
In the last pic, is that a child or adult hand. Just trying to get scale. And pic of the bark and twigs would help
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah Nutcutlet you are coming to my rescue again!
Hazel! Well I was totally wrong...thanks for the correction.
Bracken - that makes sense...shame though as it doesn't sound exciting enough for such a gorgeous plant...
It's my hand holding the leaf (hand span is around 15cm) ...
Thanks again! I'm typing up notes for the school as we speak....
Just read up on bracken...won't be introducing it into other areas of the school garden...but didn't realise it can be used for mulch/composting...so not all bad then.
Bracken,Hazel are what I have in my garden the last I am not sure.
I think the last is some sort of maple but the leaves look rather large for field maple and the wrong shape for sycamore or Norway maple.
What did you think the hazel was Stipa? I can't see the bark, twigs or developing nuts so could be wrong.
In the sticks near Peterborough
The Maple leaves look like photos of Acer italicum, a tree I have never actually seen
Bracken around here is becoming an absolute pest. Its carcinogenic, I believe, and its destroying the wild flowers along the lanes. There are great chunks of it and no flowers at all
It killed large chunks of our conifer hedge, not that I wanted it anyway, but I hate the plant.
I think the maple is field maple, Acer campestre. It seems the most likely. A rare one is unlikely and it's not sycamore or Norway m
In the sticks near Peterborough