Wednesday 10 July

Lovely morning on the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Sphaerophoria the experts can't get it any nearer from a photo but say it's female. To me it's a hoverfly.

 Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

 Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

 Skipper

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Burnet Moth on Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Take Care

Thursday 9 August

Dry Morning

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Green Veined White Butterfly

Silverweed - Potentilla anserina

Take Care

Wednesday 29 June

Dry morning for our walk over the Lower Burgh Meadow, it was alive with colour.

Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera  - Managed to find another plant but the one with buds on has vanished completely, hope it has just been eaten by slugs.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Common Poppy - Papaver rhoeas

Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Not really a fly person but these just made me look twice - all sun bathing in the same direction and angle.

Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Six Spot Burnet Moth

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Take Care

Sunday 26 June at The National Wildflower Centre

National Wildflower Centre - Court Hey Park, Liverpool.

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Broad-leaved Everlasting-pea - Lathyrus latifolius

 Chicory - Cichorium intybus

 Common Evening-primrose - Oenothera biennis

 Common Evening-primrose - Oenothera biennis

 Dropwort - Filipendula vulgaris

 Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

 Greater Knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa

 Kidney Vetch - Anthyllis vulnereria

 Meadow Crane'sbill - Geranium pratense

 Nettle-leaved Bellflower - Campanula trachelium

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Purple Toadflax - Linaria purpurea

 Salad Burnet - Sanguisorba minor subsp. minor

A novel idea for a seat. 

 Small Scabious - Scabiosa columbaria

 Small White Butterfly

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

 Trailing Bellflower - Campanula poscharskyana

 White Melilot - Melilotus albus

 Wild Carrot - Daucus carota

Wild Marjoram - Origanum vulgare

Take Care.