tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post6049606877311035159..comments2023-07-05T11:48:14.973+01:00Comments on LOOSE AND LEAFY in DORSET: BEING PROVED WRONG (and right) IN AN EXPENSIVE WAYLucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-79426273559869741842015-06-19T19:07:53.680+01:002015-06-19T19:07:53.680+01:00Great post I read every word and then went back an...Great post I read every word and then went back and read it again. It made me laugh and it made me think, thank you.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962552429792516213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-48106059415224627662015-06-17T03:15:54.634+01:002015-06-17T03:15:54.634+01:00It was funny -- I saw "expensive" in the...It was funny -- I saw "expensive" in the headline and references to police and soldiers in the first sentence and figured you had been ticketed or even arrested while photographing street plants! Glad to hear it was an expensive train ticket instead.<br /><br />And already it's street plants time! dear oh dear I'm so busy. But there's a little patch of urchins growing out of the asphalt near my curb. I will at least post their portrait, if I can catch them when it isn't raining or windy.Hollishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788942181934895493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-84089126217570041322015-06-16T16:01:50.357+01:002015-06-16T16:01:50.357+01:00I did enjoy this and it made me smile. I love the...I did enjoy this and it made me smile. I love the image of you crawling around among the thugs with guns and them being very nice despite their weapons.<br /><br />For me Trafalgar Square is now just too full and when I last went there I was very put off by the row of mime artists, one mime artist I can just about cope with but a whole row, just too touristy.<br /><br />Down here the best station for plants is Newton Abbot, full of buddleiasPhilip Strangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270337174345527565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-18973187224790139592015-06-16T13:24:40.579+01:002015-06-16T13:24:40.579+01:00Great post Lucy. When I was at college I wanted to...Great post Lucy. When I was at college I wanted to do my final year Botany project on wildflowers on the railway tracks at Waterloo. needless to say it was never going to happen, H&S rtc etc. I ended up wandering (alone) across saltmarshes and mudflats down in Kent. Well done and I will be entering some photo's later in the month.<br />Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565371216691963227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-88357193196434432282015-06-16T08:56:22.498+01:002015-06-16T08:56:22.498+01:00I really enjoyed this post. It was thoughtful and ...I really enjoyed this post. It was thoughtful and funny and informative. Love the soldier story. <br />I share your interest in street weeds (yesterday found a bee orchid growing in a derelict petrol station). And I've also found weeds grow more abundant the further you go from where the moneyed people walk.<br />Looking forward to your next adventure.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09571577405797531948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-75568423921346414752015-06-16T06:21:35.313+01:002015-06-16T06:21:35.313+01:00What a great post. I got so engrossed I read it al...What a great post. I got so engrossed I read it all even before my first cup of tea of the day.<br />When I first saw your headline I thought it was going to end in tears and that you were going to be arrested and fined, so I am glad that the expense was only the rail fare!<br />I'm so glad the police and soldiers were human after all.<br />Do the pigeons eat the greenery, then?<br />I have always considered London to be "another country" and have no wish to go there these days.<br />But your pictures are lovely, especially the pineapple mayweed, which I had never heard of before.<br />So much in this post - one of your best!<br />Must have that cup of tea now :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-79765278636381042432015-06-15T19:03:16.990+01:002015-06-15T19:03:16.990+01:00Great post Lucy. It really put a smile on my face...Great post Lucy. It really put a smile on my face. Your writing is so personal, I love the way you put a post together.<br />I admire your resolve for all wild plants and the lengths you go to to prove your point. I am so glad that at least you found one or two and the journey wasn't all wasted.<br />I think London is like Edinburgh - the city centres are kept immaculate whilst the surrounding areas and suburbs are left for the good of the wildlife. Or at least that's what they tell us. Our grass verges should be cut this week, the Royal Highland Show is on over the road and it's always made neat and tidy in time for Her Majesty's visit to the show.<br />Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14682908724307784154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-36724212847101108522015-06-15T17:13:07.247+01:002015-06-15T17:13:07.247+01:00Whenever we are walking in a city or urban spot an...Whenever we are walking in a city or urban spot and I see a plant growing through the cracks I think of you :)Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114199768103222510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-22864507093487798732015-06-15T16:10:03.085+01:002015-06-15T16:10:03.085+01:00You found some interesting plants! I enjoyed seei...You found some interesting plants! I enjoyed seeing them:)Far Side of Fiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-88403901947889441372015-06-15T15:27:46.575+01:002015-06-15T15:27:46.575+01:00A most enjoyable, and indeed fascinating, post wit...A most enjoyable, and indeed fascinating, post with interesting pictures. <br />I find it sad that although London has plenty of green spaces it generally does so little to green the streets so to speak. <br />Flighty xx Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-58783020065576265322015-06-15T13:11:00.173+01:002015-06-15T13:11:00.173+01:00Lucy, I found this report of your day trip to Lon...Lucy, I found this report of your day trip to London to be strangely affecting and I enjoyed the backstory. I would miss the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Those thistles are tough! lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06763167955731744690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-27906140080585475262015-06-15T07:58:19.902+01:002015-06-15T07:58:19.902+01:00Pigeon droppings and seed maybe? But that wouldn&#...Pigeon droppings and seed maybe? But that wouldn't account for the wild flowers would it. A heavy toxic regime of sprayed weedkillers? I find it very sad to think of central London with so few wild plants growing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083229388630903702.post-58606148155604712872015-06-14T21:52:20.100+01:002015-06-14T21:52:20.100+01:00What a wonderful post, Lucy! I still remember when...What a wonderful post, Lucy! I still remember when I used to commute to London from Suffolk that the best part of my day was going into Liverpool Street Stn and seeing all the plants (mostly buddleia) on the embankments just before you hit the gloom of the station - used to wish I was as tough. And when I lived in a scruffy little town in Alsace there was a fig tree that used to grow up through the metal grating (drainage?) in front of some flats. Periodically someone chopped it down but it always came back (over the four years I was there). What a quest you were on for those survivors in what is (to a plant) a war zone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com