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A local wildflower that appears in all the hedges above the garden but has only recently spread into the garden itself.
It is welcome, adding a touch of late colour and the illusion of late-summer prairie sunshine to this damp spot. The BSBI website says: "Goldenrod is quite a frequent plant of dry, well drained, open, often shallow rocky soils on upland grassy heaths, screes, cliff ledges, rocky gullies, streamsides and rock outcrops including limestone pavement. The species displays a wide ecological range and, in addition to the latter list of semi-natural habitats, it can also occur in man-made, lowland equivalents, colonising habitats including rockfaces and waste in quarries, on walls, on railway cuttings, as well as undisturbed wasteground. Other more natural lowland habitats include woodland clearings and margins, hedgebanks and coastal clifftops. The absence of Goldenrod in rank grassland, tall herb vegetation and grazed or fertile pastures, all indicates that the species is of poor competitive ability and it is confined, therefore, to infertile habitats, under which conditions it is capable of tolerating considerable levels of environmental stress." Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is W. Europe to Central Siberia and Philippines (Luzon). It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome." There are great many plants from Siberia, and especially so from Luzon, that I wish I could grow. This |
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| 1st September 2022 | ||