For those of you who couldn’t come to my last plant and forage walk, relax! There’s another one just around the corner. This time we’ll be meeting in Beaumont Quarry, Ballintemple to explore the beautiful wildflowers and find out more about the plants that share our world. And of course we’ll be looking at what you can safely eat, drink or otherwise use to improve your life and health.
Beaumont Quarry
Meet beside SPAR on Beaumont Drive at 11am, Sunday 15th June (bus #202 stops here). To be followed by a picnic in the quarry, hopefully the sun will smile on us!
Contact me on 085-7276738 or corkbranch@gmail.com for more info.
Location of Beaumont Quarry shown in red
This is a FREE event on behalf of the Irish Wildlife Trust. For more information about Beaumont Quarry and the work that the Cork Branch of the Irish Wildlife Trust are doing there, see http://iwt.ie/2014/04/beaumont-quarry-a-wildlife-refuge-in-the-heart-of-cork-city/
Many thanks to all of you who turned up on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Ballincollig Regional Park to get to know some of the plants we live alongside. In the end the weather was kind to us and there was a great exchange of information.
We saw a great many plants, including hawthorn, blackthorn, elder, alder, ground ivy, cow parsley, nettle, greater and ribwort plantain, meadowsweet and valerian.
For those of you who want to take their plant identification skills a bit further, a useful website is www.irishwildflowers.com. Zoe Devlin has taken many photos of our native plants. If a field guide is more your thing, I use Webb’s Irish Flora (keys, B&W pics). For colour drawings, see Collins Guide to Wildflowers of Britain and Ireland or Rose’s Flower Key.
