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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:08:03 PM

Title: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:08:03 PM

First the Primroses.

Title: Re: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:09:20 PM

Oxlips part 1.

Title: Re: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:11:09 PM

Oxlips part 2.
(Given their narrow distribution in the UK I was surprised how abundant they were)

Title: Re: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:12:28 PM

? hybrids.

Title: Re: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Giles on March 27, 2011, 02:16:53 PM

Waresley Wood is near St Neots in Cambridgeshire, and is run by the local Wildlife Trust (Northants/Cambs/Beds/Peterborough).
This is the only part of the UK where P.elatior is found naturally.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/graham.moorby/Waresley/
http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/reserves/reserve.php?reserveid=73

Title: Re: Primulas at Waresley Wood.
Post by: Lori S. on March 27, 2011, 08:21:59 PM

How nice to see some of the natural areas of the U.K.!