Botanical rarities (1)
The last 20 hours has seen some of the wettest and windiest weather that I have had the misfortune to experience here in Banstead. There has been windier, and there has been wetter, but not sustained over so many hours. As the weather quietens down, there are signs of its passage everywhere - a downed fence panel, water incursions on the south-westerly corner of the house, overturned pots in the garden - but compared to floods, bush-fires and drought these are mere trifles, I know. So, as an antidote to this misery I have been looking through some old botanical rarity photographs, those that pre-date the second coming of this blog, all pre-2010. I might be able to milk a few posts out of this. I have already posted about my time on Ben Lawers here , so will not feature any images from that wonderful site. All the species featured will be out-and-out rarities. Alpine Milk-vetch ( Astragalus alpinus ), Ben Vrakie, Perth 15 July 2008 Recorded in fewer than 15 different 10x10km...