This and that 9th February 2012 Now the snow is gone things are wasting no time in putting up new growth. We discussed the Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica before when it was just the dead stems poking out through the snow but now the snow is gone the young shoots are starting to appear. Young Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica Another plant we’ve featured in a previous blog is Hairy Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta, found a big patch of this and quite a bit of it was already flowering. Hairy Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta flowering Kev Palmer
