Tete a tete

It's been a much sunnier and slightly warmer day. I feel I achieved more today than yesterday. 
Also, at long last, the window cleaners came on a day when were in, and could  clean the windows at the back of the house and clear out the gutters, too. 

This evening, we attended a Zoom talk by Plantlife entitled, " Why are rare plants rare?" Often it is habitat degradation and loss which are  important causes, but there are other factors. Tim Pankhurst, the speaker, explained that plants need to be able to travel to new favourable habitats, to avoid their numbers dwindling and then becoming  extinct. For instance, avalanches and  landslips will assist some alpine plants to colonise new places, and flooding rivers may uproot plants such as Fen Ragwort, and transport them with organic material to establish new colonies further downstream. Meanwhile, birds such as Jays plant new oak woods by caching  acorns, and  geese  unwittingly spread water plants on their  feet across continents. Wild boar transport green plant material and seeds in their hairy coats to new locations. If these activities cease, plants are likely to become vulnerable and then rarer, and at risk of extinction. Tim emphasised that if you wish to rewild an area, it is crucial to check out the native  plants which are present, and ensure they  are allowed to continue to flourish.     
I think our window cleaners have done their bit today to disperse our colonies of mosses to new sites!
Then there is the matter of accurate recording of plants, and the need to  ensure  time periods for recording numbers in hectads are of similar lengths, to prove  a decline, or otherwise.   

meanwhile, my picture is of a bowl of Tete a Tete daffodils in my garden.