SOMETHING IN THE YARD

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...

  No passado mês de Dezembro realizei a minha única viagem de avião do ano de 2020 para visitar a minha família na época de Natal. Um ano hediondo para todos nós que nos obrigou a replanear todos os nossos projectos. In the end of December I did my only flight trip of 2020 in order to visit my family during Christmas season. It was a terrible year for all of us that forced us to rethink in all of our projects. Salvia verbenaca Aproveitei nessa viagem para matar a minha curiosidade e observar que espécies iria encontrar em floração perto da minha casa no distrito de Lisboa.  Quanto a angiospermas o número de espécies em floração é realmente muito baixo nesta altura do ano, tendo sido a família Lamiaceae a melhor representada no meu passeio. De resto, a beleza invernal resume-se a líquenes, briófitas e fungus.  I took the opportunity during my trip to give a look on what was in bloom around my house, in county Lisbon. The number of Angiosperms with flower is very small in t...