Your pictures of your local weeds

There are some lovely flowers around here in North Clare - have a gawk. (sorry I don't know any of the names)























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Sony Ericsson W810i with macro switched on for the close ups

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Excellent Audi. Some gorgeous weeds in there. That field is littered with money too. I'll add my weeds at the weekend.

Those are excellent photos, Auditor. There's great use of the coins to give a sense of scale. Well done.

If you were really smrt you could have made it look that that 1c coin was huge and stuck in the wee cave in the last picture.

The white ones are known in my mother's country as Robin Run the Hedge. The yellow ones in the second picture are primroses.
Violets in picture 3.
Noxious weed that is growing wildly in the gravel outside my back door is no 4 and 5 (spreads like wildfire but very easy to pull up by the roots).
I can't name the yellowy alpines, nor do I know the name of the reddish ones - though I've seen them a lot in Glenbarrow. The other purple one I see regulalry in hedgerows.

cookiemonster wrote:

If you were really smrt you could have made it look that that 1c coin was huge and stuck in the wee cave in the last picture.

kate thanks for that information. Some bollocks tolt me the Burren flowers were unique in the universe and found nowhere else anywhere. No matter, they were all daisies, buttercups and bluebells to me before that. I hadn't got around to names for the red ones yet.

Good f*in' phone eh?

Hopefully EvotingMachine will photo his weeds tomorrow - he gave me the idea to do it on the carpet bombing of Meath thread. If he takes some nice photos we can then download the uploads then blow them up and analyse them for the concentration of megapixels .

How did you get the photos from your phone to the computer? Did you stick a USB cable into both and let the phone upload them?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

How did you get the photos from your phone to the computer? Did you stick a USB cable into both and let the phone upload them?

USB, yes. They can also be transmitted via Bluetooth.

Auditor #9 wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

How did you get the photos from your phone to the computer? Did you stick a USB cable into both and let the phone upload them?

USB, yes. They can also be transmitted via Bluetooth.

So you just stick the cable into both and let them at it? I'm not too familiar with that process.

You should have a cable with your phone, do you? It will have a USB connection at one end. You plug that in and voila, Vista will pop up the usual window offering you to do stuff to your files. No software downloads or any of that crap. Or go into your phone via My Computer - it will show up there as a removable drive. If it doesn't, open Windows, throw computer out one and the phone out after it.

Some computers come with disk readers or card readers so you can save your pics to your removable phone memory and then take that memory out and insert that into your computer like a floppy disk. Do you remember floppy disks?

Auditor #9 wrote:

You should have a cable with your phone, do you? It will have a USB connection at one end. You plug that in and voila, Vista will pop up the usual window offering you to do stuff to your files. No software downloads or any of that crap. Or go into your phone via My Computer - it will show up there as a removable drive. If it doesn't, open Windows, throw computer out one and the phone out after it.

Some computers come with disk readers or card readers so you can save your pics to your removable phone memory and then take that memory out and insert that into your computer like a floppy disk. Do you remember floppy disks?

I do remember...vaguely...it was all quite hazy at the time. Anyway, thanks very much for the help, I might go snapping pictures around the Fair City and stick them up here.

Do. You can upload them using the button with the little floppy. I'm sure there's a wiki entry for floppies if you younglads are stuck

Are there much weeds in the capital?

Auditor #9 wrote:

Are there much weeds in the capital?

There are, and they form much of the hierarchy of the Young Green Party! Ahh, but seriously, there would be many weeds in our many parks, from Phoenix to St. Stephen's to Merrion Square.

If I have much time free, I should get taking photos!

This article touches on the role of weeds during the famine. i.e people ate them.

Famine and Environment

The Sorrel mentioned is what I was calling 'Sour Bellies' on the other thread. Lovely to eat. Never knew they were a laxative though

Not to be confused with yellow sorrel or wood sorrel.

There's maybe scope for a careful 'wild food' thread one day out of this. (use your macros well) That link has a picture of nettles and I thought they were wild mint plants. These I don't know if they are wild or not but in Killarney National Park last year I realised there were loads of mint plants around. They looked and smelled like mint anyway. I'm quite sure they were. It'd be handy to know what kinds of plants are edible in the event of another Famine...

Now try to guess what the site is from this address - it's almost as memorable as ours

http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eknp/index.htm


Wikipedia says there is water mint in the park but doesn't say anything about whether I should eat it or not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killarney_National_Park#cite_note-Oakwoods-14

Auditor #9 wrote:

Some bollocks tolt me the Burren flowers were unique in the universe and found nowhere else anywhere. No matter, they were all daisies, buttercups and bluebells to me before that. I hadn't got around to names for the red ones yet.

I was taught in school that there are species in the Burren that aren't found anywhere else in Europe bar the Alps.

Common Hogweed. Wiki
Earwigs like to rezone them for apartments in the autumn.
We also get the Giant Hogweed in Portmarnock which nasty is stuff.



Not your usual variety of Dandelion.




No idea. But a proud looking weed all the same.



A Noble Nettle, watching out for Spanish Pirates.


A funny yoke. Should have taken it from further away.



One of them things. Available at your local grass verge.


A greenfly's skyrise.



Anyone like butter ??

No-one likes my weeds.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

No-one likes my weeds.

That thistle is illegal dammnit! I don't care how many aphid live off of it. Does this website condone illegal weed growing now (stop sniggering ). In the national interest Evoting Machine0197, agent orange that whole field. Remember; one year's seeds are seven years weeds.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

No-one likes my weeds.

Can ya ate any of em
I was subbing in a school for travellers when I was young and I showed 5-year old Paddy a pitcher of a stork and all he said was "Can ya ate it?"

905 wrote:

That thistle is illegal dammnit! I don't care how many aphid live off of it. Does this website condone illegal weed growing now (stop sniggering ). In the national interest Evoting Machine0197, agent orange that whole field. Remember; one year's seeds are seven years weeds.

O let them be let O let them be let, long live the weeds and the wilderness yet...

Evoting those pitchers are mighty - I like the one with the nettly yoke looking out for the pirates. Now can you post the techical specs of your camera please? I am about to blow the pitchers up to examine the quality of your megapixellation. You'll have to tell me it first though.

What's wrong with a teeny weeny thistle ? Who made it illegal and why?

The camera is a Canon Ixus 75. But the pitchers have already been reduced to 20% of original.

Long live the weeds indeed. I'll photo the Giant Hogweed and some sorrel at the W/E.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

The camera is a Canon Ixus 75. But the pitchers have already been reduced to 20% of original.

What ?? Does that mean they lose pixellisation? Your camera I guess is 10MP? And that's max resolution or something so 5MP normal no? Reduce by 20% that's 4 Mp. How the feck will I count them? Maybe if I magnify by the same factor then your dots will look better or smaller still...

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Long live the weeds indeed. I'll photo the Giant Hogweed and some sorrel at the W/E.

Now sorrel you can ate, can't you?

Auditor #9 wrote:

How the feck will I count them?

You can count to four million, can't you?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

What's wrong with a teeny weeny thistle ? Who made it illegal and why?

The camera is a Canon Ixus 75. But the pitchers have already been reduced to 20% of original.

Long live the weeds indeed. I'll photo the Giant Hogweed and some sorrel at the W/E.

Thistles are illegal under the noxious weeds act brought in in the fifties. I thought we'd covered all this in the thread on spraying hedgegrows.

If I were you I'd get of the stash before the department of Agriculture track you down and send in their heavies. We're talking men with pitchforks here.