Loads of this stuff around the knipetowers parkland, mainly near the moat and some on the south-facing banks of the Ah ha! I wonder what it is…. Here it is in the dog’s play quarry.
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- Mike Knipe
- Crook, County Durham, United Kingdom
- I am a retired NHS Personnel person. All I do nowadays is walk about. I used to have my pet dog Bruno with me (in the front page pic). he was Superdawg but he died. Now I have Lucky the pup. He's a bit like Bruno, only smaller and more suspicious.
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You'll be needing a country type to come by your blog to answer this one, Mr Knipe.
Looks like a weed to me. If it was in my garden I would be digging the fella up.
Or mowing it probably. Much easier to mow the things than digging them up. It's better for your back, see, look you?
Alan - Some of the gardeners wanted to put it on the compost, but I said "no!"
At the moment we're trying to make beer out of it.
I like to think of it as a kind of Ray Mears moment...
It could be a kind of plant that might contain a mind-altering drug of some sort.
Alert the local youth immediately. So they can give it a wide berth.
Well, I'll start the bidding with "some kind of helleborine". Would that be an old limestone quarry ?
Oooo, I love a mystery! What about this? Scroll right, all the way. Looks a bit similar?http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/H-Flowers/Helleborine,%20Dark%20Red.htm
Hmm..... a mind-altering helleborine..?
This is all possible. That's a disused magnesian limestone quarry of the very kind that gets SSSI.
Looks like Louise has it.
Yes!!
Not that I'm at all competitive... ahem.
Its the County flower of Banffshire, apparently.
Mr Knipe. "Ah ha"? Would that be ha ha that you are thinking about? Me thinks you are trying to make us think that Knipe Towers is grander than it really is.
Sorry about the delay in replying, Phil, I was cycling back from the West wing where we keep the captured ramblers. It takes a while, as its uphill. Apparently one of the wolves had eaten one of them.
You're probably right. Ah ha is a pop group isn't it? Silly me. Its the blog sub-editorial team. Theyre just not up to it any more.
It does look like the Helleborine, which is an endangered species. Its an orchid
Its a dark red helleborine. There's 1000 spikes of it in Bishop Middleham quarry.
If they let the vegetation grow, it'll reduce in numbers in the quarry. The question is, do they allow nature to take it's course or not?
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