SOMETHING IN THE YARD

Last weekend I had the opportunity to explore the wild Orchids in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. It was my 2nd time on that area. First time I visited this place was in 2019 in the month of June, you can review the post with the wild orchids I found at that time  here . On this post I will show a collection of some of the photos I took to different species from the Orchidaceae family. This time I had the chance to see finally the beautiful Neotinea maculata and the Dactylorhiza kerryensis .  Dactylorhiza kerryensis Obviously, the challenge came with the Dactylorhiza genus. There are a couple of different species in the area, a couple of subspecies and the hybridization can also occur in some cases.  A big thank you to Sean, Mike and Richard for helping me with some IDs. Some of the photos I'm still not sure about the correct species and in case I wrote incorrectly any names, feel free to let me know. Listera Listera ovata Orchis Orchis mascula Orchis mascula Orch...

Ireland is not the best place in Europe when it comes to a wide variety of different wildflowers but this is not synonym that here we don't an impressive and gorgeous flora, and I'm gonna show you with this post that I'm right! Viola tricolor Last weekend I spent around 45min in a walk in Dublin 3 and around 2h in the south area of Bull Island. Both places are part of County Dublin, Ireland. Now it comes the main question: how many native wildflowers did I recorded in less than 3h spent on my last weekend? Are you ready to know them? You'll be impressed! Number of Species found: 34 Families found: 17 I need to admit I didn't have time to record other species that I also found, so I truly believe I could easily reach 50 different species. I promise this weekend I will bring exciting new things! Now you have no excuses to go to explore what is around in your city. Open your eyes very well, bring a lenses because lots of species are really tiny and lets investigate o...