Monday 30 June

Sunny day

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Cinnabar Catapillars

 Common Poppy - Papaver rhoeas

 Still waiting for the Corn-cockle - Agrostemma githago to flower

 Cornflower - Centaurea cyanus

 Gatekeeper

 Goat's Rue - Galega officinalis

Leaf & tendrils Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria

 Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Red Bartsia - Odontites vernus

 Scarlet Pimpernel - Anagallis arvensis

 Self Heal - Prunella vulgaris

 Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

White version of Red Clover - Trifolium pratense, not a rarity but have to say it's the first time I have come across it, we get red, zig zag, alsike & white on the meadow this just stood out - it made the white clover look like it needed a persil wash.

Take Care

Thursday 25 July

Rained overnight so it was a damp morning

We did the Lower Burgh

stages of the Corn-cockle - Agrostemma githago flower opening in the sowed meadow patch.

Take Care

Saturday 22 September

Damp again but we stayed dry.

 Big Lodge

 I loved the misty view over the Big lodge

 Butterfly-bush - Buddleja davidii

 Corn-cockle - Agrostemma githago - only noticed the Green Shieldbug Nymph when I was looking at the photos later on, it's the 2nd one we found recently.

Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Take Care.

Wednesday 11 July

Dry

 Corn-cockle - Agrostemma githago

 Cornflower - Centaurea cyanus

 Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

 Cygnets

  A very curious Buttercup

Take Care

Wednesday 25 May

Dry Morning - up to the Lower Burgh Meadow.

Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Canada Geese coming in to land.

 Common Figwort Leaves - Scrophularia nodosa var. bobartii

Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Figwort weevil - Cionus scrophulariae

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

Hoary Ragwort Leaves -  Senecio erucifolius

Hogweed Leaves - Heracleum sphondylium

 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

Mum & Babes

 Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

 Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

I took the rest of the photos around the back garden, after dinner.

 Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

 Corncockle

 Corncockle among the clover

 Meet the Sparrows

 Quite a few this year

 They are nesting in the hedge

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Wolf Spider With her egg sac - there are lots in the garden.

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Another Blue Tit Nest

Take Care.