Ivydene Gardens Box to Crowberry Wild Flower Families Gallery:
Buddleia Family

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Common Name to view that Plant Description Page
Botanical Name to link to Plant or Seed Supplier
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Buddleia Family:-

Buddleia Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Butterfly-Bush

Buddleja davidii

July onwards

A large deciduous shrub, now very well established on waste ground, by railways, in quarries, on roadsides and generally in urban habitats, where it often grows on walls and neglected buildings. It prefers dry, disturbed sites where large populations can develop from its wind-dispersed seed. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers from Burham in Kent on 23 July

Foliage

Form from Burham in Kent on 23 July

Biopix is a collection of biological photos, primarily from Scandinavia. Biopix is used online by a wide range of students, teachers, researchers, photographers etc. The photos are used professionally in a large range of publications; the sale helps to cover the expences.

Photographers are primarily:

Antje Neumann (plant ecologist and nature guide) Home page

Ib Nord Nielsen (Forester)

Jens Christian Schou (botanist, teacher, scientific illustrator, writer)

Jens Kristian Overgaard (teacher)

Kirsten Andersen (teacher)

Niels Sloth (biologist PhD) Home page

Technique
The photos were mainly taken with digital cameras: Nikon CP8700, Olympus E330, Nikon D80, Nikon D300 but many photos were also scanned from 24x36 negatives.

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"What did you do?" the other nuns asked.

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The second nun chips in:

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The third nun fainted......