NOT JUST WEEDS
Round Hill residents have been identifying plants growing on pavements and alongside walls to confer positive value on them. Many are beneficial to wildlife (e.g. bees and other insects).
Click here for background to similar projects in other cities. The photos (below) are of plants growing of their own accord (!) ....
in Roundhill Crescent and D'Aubigny Road *
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(open to RH residents only)
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1. willow herb | lesser stitchwort 
27. researchers 
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NOT JUST WEEDS background
Not just weeds [The Guardian, Friday 1st May 2020] - Pavement chalking to draw attention to wild flowers and plants in urban areas. One survey of pavements in Sheffield found 183 different plants, another in Cambridge found 186 species on walls. A patch of nettles can be swamped with caterpillars. And bird’s-foot-trefoil, a not uncommon urban verge plant, is a food plant for more than 160 different invertebrates.
Also commonly found (pavements & walls)
[The following are mentioned and illustrated in The Guardian article]
- Lotus corniculatus, known as bird’s-foot-trefoil - an urban verge plant
- Taraxacum, known as Dandelions - a lifeline to bees in early spring.
- Echium vulgare, commonly known as vipers bugloss or blue weed - pollinated by skipper butterflies, popular with white-tailed bumble bees
- Bellis perennis, commonly known as daisy
- Portulaca oleracea, also known as duckweed, little hogweed, or pursley
- Thyme
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This page was last updated by Ted on 21-Aug-2020