Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Our next plant ID walk will be a gentle walk starting at Weston Car Park, Grammar Lane, Weston. The plan is to start at Weston car park, which is along eastern side of Weston Comb. Then we’ll follow the gentle path above the publicRead More
Leave a comment Just over 170 years ago Dr. WH Cullen conducted a botanical survey of herbaceous plants ion the Sid Valley and surrounding area. In 1849 Cullen published his findings in a book he entitled, Flora Sidostiensis, a copy can be seen in the town library.Read More
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Lady’s Smock Botanical name Cardamine pratensis Cardamine from Greek “kardamine” for “water cress”. “Karda” is Greek for “heart” (cf “carda”), and “damao” is Greek for “strengthen”. “pratensis” from Latin meaning “meadow”. It is part of the large genus “Brassica”, which makes it a relativeRead More
Leave a comment Someone heard an Arab merchant calling a product ‘al henna’ and thought he was saying ‘al kanet’. Henna is the dark red dye that comes from Egyptian Privet and the roots of Green Alkanet give a similar dye. Egyptian henna would come as aRead More
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