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TheGUYuk

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'Drip by drip loss' of wildflowers
« on: 09:09:34, 13/09/12 »
'Drip by drip loss' of wildflowers
  • A nature charity says Britain is gradually losing its wildflowers, seen here outside the Olympic Stadium in LondonView PhotoA nature charity says Britain is gradually losing its wildflowers, seen here outside …
  • Britain has lost 10 wildflower species from the countryside since the Queen came to the throne 60 years ago, a report has revealed.
    The study, by nature charity Plantlife, also revealed wildflowers were vanishing from individual counties at a rate of up to one species a year, a "drip by drip loss" that could eventually see more plants disappearing on a national scale.
    Downy hemp-nettle, summer lady's tresses and interrupted brome are among the 10 species that have become extinct across Britain in the last six decades, which have seen the countryside lose much of its richness, Plantlife said. The average county has lost around 25 species of plants during that time.
    Plantlife warned that without action to protect wild plants, critically endangered flowers such corn buttercup, fringed gentian and the yellow early marsh orchid could be next to disappear.
    The report looked at the rate at which flowers were being lost from 50 counties in England, Scotland and Wales and found some, such as field gentian and burnt orchids, were disappearing while once-widespread plants were becoming rarer.
    Snakeshead fritillary and meadow saffron have gone from Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire has lost four-fifths of its meadows, and North Aberdeenshire has lost 42 species in a little under a century. In Shakespeare's Warwickshire, the wild thyme, eglantine (sweet briar) and oxlips (the cowslip-primrose hybrid) he describes growing on the fairies' bank in A Midsummer Night's Dream are now all scarce.
    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/drip-drip-loss-wildflowers-230452138.html;_ylt=Avakiybe3SOwtuFXXjC6kCPFfMl_;_ylu=X3oDMTRlZXY4c2xmBG1pdANVSyBzZWN0aW9uIG1peGVkIGxpc3QEcGtnA2NlMmM3YjYyLTUxNmYtMzgwMC1hMTViLTY4OGUwOTIxOTM3YQRwb3MDMTIEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZExQQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgNiZWViYzE3MC1mZDJlLTExZTEtYmRmNS1kOGVjN2IwOGI2ZjQ-;_ylg=X3oDMTFnZjdoYnE1BGludGwDZ2IEbGFuZwNlbi1nYgRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAN1awRwdANzZWN0aW9ucw--;_ylv=3
     
    What a sad day it will be when all the wonderful colour and bueaty is gone from over lives replaced by concret amd shopping centres, plastic homes and wooden sheds for holiday stays.. :(
     

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    Re: 'Drip by drip loss' of wildflowers
    « Reply #1 on: 09:13:55, 13/09/12 »
    What a sad day it will be when all the wonderful colour and bueaty is gone from over lives replaced by concret amd shopping centres, plastic homes and wooden sheds for holiday stays..




    Agree 100%  :)
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    Re: 'Drip by drip loss' of wildflowers
    « Reply #2 on: 15:44:01, 13/09/12 »
    Too right.


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    Re: 'Drip by drip loss' of wildflowers
    « Reply #3 on: 16:23:31, 13/09/12 »
    Think I once saw downy hemp nettle, mind it was in a (planted) meadow by a museum. I got some seed of this over the internet, didn't grow :(

     

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