👇🏼The wild patio thread👇🏼

A log about our wild flatmates with whom we share a Victorian house in North London.

@BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour @morethanweeds @Britnatureguide @WildLondon @LondonNPC
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #Mexican_fleabane

These non-natives moved in earlier this Spring and have been in flower ever since, seemingly quite happy with our London stock bricks. I'm quite happy too to relish in the little chaos they've brought.

#Erigeron_karvinskianus

The empty pond thread 1/5

This pond in a park in N London was once full of water and peopled by swans, mallards, shovelers et al.
Disused as a pond for a few years now, it’s been occupied by a motley community of plants.

@BSBIbotany @morethanweeds @WildLondon @LondonNPC @TWGFoE 2/5

Now in bloom, I salute the Michaelmas daisies, whose taste for hybridisation and back-crossing have a laugh at our taxonomic efforts. I'll just note down #Symphyotrichum and enjoy the views.

My associate advises me of a new clutch of seven #TuftedDuck #ducklings at the Boating Lake at Ally Park, apparently seen around first a few days back @FriendsAllyPark A few days later, 4 out of 7 #Tufted_Duck ducklings remain. They're alive and well, though, and already qualified free-divers.
#AlexandraPark
@FriendsAllyPark

First time this morning that we encounter this late clutch of eight #Mallard #ducklings at the Boating Lake at Ally Park @FriendsAllyPark @AllyPallyWatch @birdingetc 6 days later, 2 #Mallard #ducklings lost to the cosmos. Among the 6 remaining, the 1 whose down is quite more yellow than the rest of siblings'. At the Boating Lake in Alexandra Park @FriendsAllyPark