This has been a fantastic year for wild flowers and for anyone driving holiday is well worth stopping to look at on the banks of the road, where the plants are impressive. Now is the time for the towering peaks of Digital purple and pink rosebay Sauce-hierba. The vines are also filled with flowers, and the heavenly scent of honeysuckle fills the air overnight in hedgerows.
Snowdrops, another plant plant in flower, it is the curse of gardeners, straining to everything that stems can turn around and sinking rhizomes so deep that almost impossible to excavate fully. But trumpet-shaped flowers make a dramatic splash wherever the disruption; If these flowers close during the day, usually a sign that the rain is on its way. The Scarlet Pimpernel also makes the same weather information, which he earned the nickname of "the poor man time glass".
The ragworts are yellow flowers as daisy, but have a darker side. Its flowers are highly poisonous to cattle, horses, pigs and chickens, and even dead grass plants are still poisonous, although won find them immensely attractive to eat. All the grass species are toxic, including the grass of Oxford. This famous was brought from Mount Etna and planted in the gardens of the University of Oxford; seeds trips to Oxford railway station and then widely spread along railway lines, a good substitute for rocks natives of ballast.
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