GatherOnlySeeds

Understanding local biodiversity, especially shifting plant/pollinator interactions. As a community educator, reconnectng groups with their natural heritage.

[GatherOnlySeeds @GatherOnlySeeds]

@NatureLark @BSBI_Ireland @wildflower_hour That would be better - as I believe the sp is under stress? - and the location suggested a perennial. Thanks, Moira.
Still a first sighting. (Rose has only a shoot tip image for the germander!)

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@Headmeltz Perfection indeed - if just a tenth of that green carpet was allowed to reach its natural flowering size.
#Achill #machair #biodiversityloss #habitatrestoration
#Irishnativewildflowers
@LIFEonMachair @GYB_Project

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@gemma0connor @GYB_Project @BioDataCentre #Comfrey is such a great all-purpose #earlypollinatorplant. (And will carry on if you cut it back repeatedly!)

Good to see #GYB Queens on the #Mullet using it. Is the #GYBproject planting it specifically for them?

@mogobriain @peediepuss @KarinaEcology @PollinatorPlan

[GatherOnlySeeds @GatherOnlySeeds]

A group examining moths from #NPWS overnight light-trapping at #NMICountryLife #BiodiversityDay yesterday.
It was great to meet with so many nature-lovers, young and old.
#LocalBiodiversity #MayoWildlife

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Thanks for that; my attempt at retweeting direct from the NMI website came up without the graphic!

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#BiodiversityDay 2023 - from #NMICountryLife
Join us for a day of exploration and fun as we discover the variety of natural life abundant on the grounds of the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life on Saturday, 20 May from 11am to 5pm. #NPWS #CitizenScience

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@IrishRainforest @patagonia And for dwellers in our #Irish #rainforest areas who can’t make evenings n Dublin.? Will #Patagonia be recording?
#AtlanticWest #rewilding

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Thanks to @mogobriain and Eoin Halpin for leading yesterday’s ramble across a deceptively empty #DugortMachair, exploring its complex past & the promise of a renewed balance between agriculture and wildlife with #LifeonMachair and #ACRES. And to
@BollAchill for organising it.

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One defiant #ErodiumCicutariumAgg brings cheer to a sandy spot on #DugortMachair #AchillIsland yesterday. Among ground-hugging daisies & half-chewed dandelions on #overgrazedcommonage. #AnnualHerb, but this looks #overwintered ? Stork’s Bills just forming.
#wildflowerhour

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A great thread from @DrTrevorDines; emphasising hedging your bets with #Mowing . I was on publicly-owned land last week, swarming with #LucorumAgg #bumbles on #WinterHeathers . But with all the nearby sward mown close two weeks ago, where are they going next? #EarlyForagePlants

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Ahead of #WildflowerHour and still looking down... #MarshViolet #ViolaPalustris spreading vigourously in a trailside flush. A first for the site & for me.

Almost the only plant to benefit from close late brush-cutting. #Bumblebees are in for a #PollinatorHungryGap

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A 4-course #banquet for early bees for #wildflowerhour #BorageChallenge running Jan-April, all #naturalisedplants .
1. #TrachystemonOrientalis
2. #SymphytumGrandiflorum
3. #SymphytumGrandiflorumHybrid
4. Early low-growing #xUpplandicum hybrrid

#EarlyForagePlants #Bumblebees

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@AgrimonySpikes @BioDataCentre @GrasslandsIrl @opwireland Thanks @AgrimonySpikes - a very informative thread.
Aggregate #Haymeadow loss comparable to the overall #FlowerRichGrassland decline cited for the UK, but on a totally different timescale. Might the 68% cliff-edge reflect a shift in agricultural support on EU accession?

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#NativeWildflowerMeadows to return at 100 #historicsites in England.
Inspiring...
But project lead cites that 97% meadow loss figure as 1930s-1980s.
Any more recent Irish data yet?
@BioDataCentre @GrasslandsIrl ⁦@opwireland⁩ https://t.co/RtZP8k2lMg

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@peediepuss Superb, Martin , thanks.
Makes up for the lack of clear #AtlantikWest skies on #Aurora nights lately.

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Every community should have one!
#SeedySundays #SeedSaving #HeritageVegetables

[@louisburghkilleenheritage @lkheritage]

Thinking of growing your own veggies this year?
Why not pop into the #community #tunnel, (beside the Old Convent Building) Saturday 25th March 11am-12pm & get some inspiration.

Let's Get Louisburgh Growing!

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@wildflower_hour @NatureLark @BSBIbotany Love the #whitebrassicas crib but the #AtlanticWest #phenology gap strikes again. Scouring the townland - not even a single #ShepherdsNeedle; usually popping up all over the veg beds by now.

First lonely #Primrose of the season instead.

@wildflower_hour #SlowStartSpring

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@VenetiaJane Probably pertinent - #CroaghPatrick was where #SaintPatrick put in his wilderness sojourn - to erase the claim of its previous tenant #CromDubh?
& threw the snakes into #ClewBay - its #drumlin islands.
He’d have needed his #leafygreens after all that!

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But the emphasis needs to be on the talk.

Take a look at #TheBurren #BioRegionalRegeneration work in #CoClare. It took around 10 years of negotiation to successfully shift farming practices.

@RewildingIreland @BurrenbeoTrust @NatCap_Irl

https://t.co/91iDosrBmn

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@AngelikaHTCG Fine flourishing #H_foetidus Angelika - but #H_viridis is a small graceful plant with doubly compound leaves, narrow petalled open jade flowers. Your L. looks more like a lanky #H_Corsicus
#GreenFlowers #HelleboreSpecies @NatureLark #NaturalisedHellebores 🇮🇪