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...

Moving from Portugal to Ireland aroused my interest for simpler things. My country has thousands of different wildflowers and here in Ireland we have around 800 different  ones and this is a good opportunity to explore some genus that you probably wouldn't pay attention in the Mediterranean area. The genus Plantago - Plantaginaceae  family - became one of my favorites. Can you believe that I don't have any memory to record one of the 16 species of Plantago from Portugal? Not counting with Plantago major , but all the other ones I'm sure I'll give a special to them attention during my next trip to my country.  In Ireland we have 4 different species, well at least until this year I thought we only had 4, but it seems that my favourite Plantago media occurs very rarely in Ireland - and that gives a total number of 5 species of Plantago . This year, thanks to my friend Josh Styles and his magnificent knowledge I had the opportunity to record P. media .  Planta...