... A patch of snowdrops or daffodils in the middle of nowhere at the side of the road is likely dumped garden waste, take the spade to them and lift *some* of the bulbs. ...
Not in East Anglia and many other rural parts of Great Britain - there are native daffodils and snowdrops and it's the ones that are furthest from gardens that are likely to be the native ones that haven't crossed with cultivated ones from gardens.
We were commenting on the lovely patches and drifts of snowdrops on roadside banks today... Definitely not dumped garden waste! Likewise the primroses and daffs. Mind you, the council has done a similar bulldozing job to the one Lordswood mentioned to widen a road for oil tankers, shame the refinery has closed!
Jimmy appears to have a pretty cavalier attitude to removing plants from the wild. Shame on him.
Clumps of snowdrops often signify that there was human habitation nearby once-upon-a-time.
Rather than leaving a bouquet of flowers at the site of a road fatality, it would be such a good idea to plant bulbs as a lasting memorial that would come up every year.
I think there would be a common-sense interpretation of the law for most people. If theres a bramble bush for example clearly growing in an overgrown field, I doubt anyone would have a problem with "foraging". Theres a difference with a field full of clearly managed fruit bushes. ....
And how do you know that a member of the farmer's family hasn't got those blackberries earmarked for some jam or a crumble - will turn up with a colander to pick them, or send the children of the family, only to find that Jimmy has taken them .... and they didn't belong to him ... that would be stealing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I drove down a small back lane the other week going to a wildlife reserve. There were gorgeous clumps of snowdrops all along the bottom of the hedgerows. I was really enjoying them, then I saw the house where they must have originated. It was quite obvious that the house owner goes out and plants them up the lane for everyone to enjoy. Only the most selfish person would go dig them up for themselves.
I was a bit perturbed though when I visited a very sensitive area of the reserve and found more clumps of snowdrop. Still on balance they looked nice there too.
before the war, Daffs were grown in Devon / Cornwall and were sent daily by train to London. They were dug up at the start of the war , to allow for food crops, and dumped into the hedgerows where they still flower every year.
Before I moved to East Yorkshire , I had never seen snowdrops planted in verges. It is a lovely sight early in the year. The snowdrop walk at Burton Agnes is beautiful.
I think there would be a common-sense interpretation of the law for most people. If theres a bramble bush for example clearly growing in an overgrown field, I doubt anyone would have a problem with "foraging". Theres a difference with a field full of clearly managed fruit bushes. ....
And how do you know that a member of the farmer's family hasn't got those blackberries earmarked for some jam or a crumble - will turn up with a colander to pick them, or send the children of the family, only to find that Jimmy has taken them .... and they didn't belong to him ... that would be stealing
Or possibly a farmer has decided that the hedgerow fruits on his farm are going to be left for wildlife - many birds and small mammals eat blackberries, sloes, haws and other hedgerow fruits. Farmers are often criticised for cutting back hedgerows and denying food to the birds and yet if we all do what Jimmy advocates, when they leave the hedgerows for the birds someone comes along and takes the berries
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Not in East Anglia and many other rural parts of Great Britain - there are native daffodils and snowdrops and it's the ones that are furthest from gardens that are likely to be the native ones that haven't crossed with cultivated ones from gardens.
The native English daffodil is really scarce now due to loss of habitat and people having dug them up for their gardens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_pseudonarcissus
And yes, it is illegal to dig them up from the 'wild'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We were commenting on the lovely patches and drifts of snowdrops on roadside banks today... Definitely not dumped garden waste! Likewise the primroses and daffs. Mind you, the council has done a similar bulldozing job to the one Lordswood mentioned to widen a road for oil tankers, shame the refinery has closed!
Clumps of snowdrops often signify that there was human habitation nearby once-upon-a-time.
Rather than leaving a bouquet of flowers at the site of a road fatality, it would be such a good idea to plant bulbs as a lasting memorial that would come up every year.
That is unless Jimmy is in the area!
And how do you know that a member of the farmer's family hasn't got those blackberries earmarked for some jam or a crumble - will turn up with a colander to pick them, or send the children of the family, only to find that Jimmy has taken them .... and they didn't belong to him ... that would be stealing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I drove down a small back lane the other week going to a wildlife reserve. There were gorgeous clumps of snowdrops all along the bottom of the hedgerows. I was really enjoying them, then I saw the house where they must have originated. It was quite obvious that the house owner goes out and plants them up the lane for everyone to enjoy. Only the most selfish person would go dig them up for themselves.
I was a bit perturbed though when I visited a very sensitive area of the reserve and found more clumps of snowdrop. Still on balance they looked nice there too.
before the war, Daffs were grown in Devon / Cornwall and were sent daily by train to London. They were dug up at the start of the war , to allow for food crops, and dumped into the hedgerows where they still flower every year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orum
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE23D_DpCTg
Before I moved to East Yorkshire , I had never seen snowdrops planted in verges. It is a lovely sight early in the year. The snowdrop walk at Burton Agnes is beautiful.
Or possibly a farmer has decided that the hedgerow fruits on his farm are going to be left for wildlife - many birds and small mammals eat blackberries, sloes, haws and other hedgerow fruits. Farmers are often criticised for cutting back hedgerows and denying food to the birds and yet if we all do what Jimmy advocates, when they leave the hedgerows for the birds someone comes along and takes the berries
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.