{"id":42,"date":"2022-06-14T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/?p=42"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:32:40","slug":"natural-history-of-the-pollys-cove-area-14jun2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/2022\/06\/14\/natural-history-of-the-pollys-cove-area-14jun2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History of the Polly’s Cove Area 14Jun2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rhododendron groenlandicum<\/em>, Labrador Tea at Polly’s Cove on June 12, 2022. Photo by Roslyn Duffus<\/p><\/div>\n

Roslyn Duffus made a nice post on the Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society Facebook page illustrating Bearberry, 3-toothed Cinquefoil, Dragon’s Mouth Orchid, Pink Lady’s Slipper, Golden Heather, Labrador Tea all in flower on Sunday June 12 at Polly’s Cove Trail, Peggy’s Cove Preservation Area.<\/p>\n

“Where is Polly Cove ? You had a great day hunting” asked a viewer.<\/p>\n

I know this area well, and it reminded me of a comprehensive description of the natural history of the area in a 1980 issue of the Halifax Naturalists Newsletter<\/a>, \u00a0see page 4 ff (PDF page 7). I still refer to it when I go there.<\/p>\n

Roslyn graciously gave me permission to copy her photos and post them on this page. Click on the images for larger versions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Arethusa bulbosa, Dragon’s mouth orchid<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of Cypripedium acaule<\/em>, Pink Lady’s Slippers<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Sibbaldiopsis tridentata<\/em>, Three toothed cinquefoil<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thanks Roslyn. This place is very special to me. As a new prof at Dalhousie University in 1975, we took students from the first year biology class there, led by Instructor Pat Harding who knew the flora much better than I. It was a great introduction to Nova Scotia for many of the students from away.\u00a0 Even many of the Nova Scotian students had never spent time on our bog and barrens before. On a second field trip, we took them to the intertidal zone.<\/p>\n

Years later – in early June of 2004, when I wanted to seriously upgrade my Nova Scotia plant ID skills – I hauled out my\u00a0 old notes and the HFN newsletter articles cited above and went to Polly’s Cove. I repeated the visit many times\u00a0 through 2004 and 2005 to view plants in bog and barrens and forest at different times of year.\u00a0 It’s a great place to spend hours immersed in the surroundings.\u00a0 Roslyn’s photos took me back to those early and those later days.<\/p>\n

Another visit is long overdue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roslyn Duffus made a nice post on the Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society Facebook page illustrating Bearberry, 3-toothed Cinquefoil, Dragon’s Mouth Orchid, Pink Lady’s Slipper, Golden Heather, Labrador Tea all in flower on Sunday June 12 at Polly’s Cove Trail, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrens-and-bogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/chebuctomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}