The National Parks and Wildlife Service has just awarded Ballyboughal Hedgerow 600 Euros to record Wildflowers along the hedgerow network in the parishes of Ballyboughall and Naul.
Please join us on our weekly recording walks meeting at OConnors Pub at 2.00 on Sundays.
We hope to record Orchids as well as other champion ‘WeedFlowers‘ during our research over the summer. Results will be published in October . Email lynchjustice@gmail for more info
Category Archives: Flowers
Events Biodiversity Week May 2023
On Sunday 14th in Mainscourt Ballyboughal and in Naul on 18th May we found 24 different wild WeedFlowers in bloom NOT including wild Grasses! Especially important is Spear Thistle- ranked in 6th place among The Top Ten nectar producers for pollinators. Also found were
Herb Bennet (Geum), Cow Parsley (for Orange Tip butterflies), Hawksbeard, Black Medick, Purple Vetch, Bush Vetch, Primroses, Speedwell, Wild Garlic, Dandelions,, Silverweed (Cinquefoil), Weeping Sedge (Carex pendula), Dead Nettle, Clover, Cleavers (Garbhlus), Nettles, Wild Mustard, Charlock, Sow Thistle, Fumitory, Daisy, Burdock, Stellaria.
Primrose Walk with local Botanist
25th March 2023
More info to follow, but save the date to join us on the 25th March for Primrose Walk with a local Botanist.