Thanks for the suggestion a while back by several members about adding a wildflowers, plants and trees forum. I think it's a great idea, and a very interesting topic.

To start us off, which is your favourite wildflower to see around the UK?

I hope this forum does well, i really enjoy the plant world.

I'm finding it very difficult to choose i've got so many. I've got favourites within habitats, seasons, uses for ect. Umm errr..i'll go for Bee Orchid, i always get really excited when i stumble across one of these beauties.

That's a hard one.

Probably round-leaved sundew Drosera rotundifolia


followed closely by devil's-bit scabious Succisa pratensis

This post was last modified: 05-03-2008 07:55 PM by wild canon.

I also welcome the forum and hope that there are many postings, there should be as we move into the spring and summer.

My favourite flower is the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia, for those in Scotland). It always looks such a delicate plant which will wilt under even the gentlest of breezes, but in reality it's as tough as old boots, choosing to grow in the most windswept of positions.

Following closely behind the harebell is the cowslip, this always makes me feel nostalgic for when I was little and lived in the deepest countryside when in the spring the roadside verges and the pastures were covered by the cowslip's yellow flowers.

Definitely the cowslip for me. It's probably the one that I see the most, and like Dogwood always conjures up brilliant memories.

My favourite Plants and flowers are anyones that birds like!

Wild Canon those are really beautiful photos. I know little to nothing about wild flowers but the Succisa pratensis is wonderful.

Oh this is a tricky one - I don't think I have a favourite as such - I love Tufted vetch, Bird's-foot Trefoil (eggs & bacon), Corn flower - the blue is stunning - it always excites me to see the first red campion in the hedgerows, not to mention the Greater Stitchwort & Germainder Speedwell - hmmmm - this is a long list, I can't wait to see them again this year, & I'm very happy this forum has been created!

There are many to choose from, but i think it will have to be one of the orchids, especially the Ladies Slipper.


But i do really enjoy the first ones that i see in spring, just makes you think that everything else is not going to be to far behind it.

That's a hard one.

Probably round-leaved sundew Drosera rotundifolia


followed closely by devil's-bit scabious Succisa pratensis

you have good taste!
both of them would be in my top 5
succisa partly because it is also the foodplant of the marsh fritillary

I'll go for the Wood Anenome, with its promise of Spring:

   

There are some brilliant pictures in this thread. Looking through them I've got to say that the Ladies Slipper is my favourite.