Plant Identification - how difficult can it be?

Tuesday 15th September 2020

Spent time today discussing employment and jobs at the end of the course. We have an exercise to complete and present by Thursday this week. We also had a talk with the Enterprise team about the support for setting up your own business. Great to see an immediate focus on employability – we haven’t even started the course yet!

As I went back to the cottage I thought I should start working on my plant identification – there is a test on the 18th November so good to get started. Took some photos and then looked at my Collins book – much harder than I thought - it is almost impossible o be sure. I loaded Google Lens – but discovered that is not accurate enough – going to have to do it the hard way.

This is an Ash – about 30 years ago the Chinese and Manchurian ash was introduced to the UK and brought with it Ash dieback. It is a fungus which the European Ash has no resistance to and over the years it kills the tree. It is thought that we will lose 80% of our ash trees and it will cost the Uk £15billion.