Tuesday 14 April

A good walk down the Yarrow Valley

 Primula vulgaris ‘Double Lilac, planted by someone

Wild Garlic or Ramsons - Allium ursinum

 A few Roses in the River Yarrow this morning - a memory for someone

Robin peeping from her nest

 

A little gem Shining Cranesbill - Geranium lucidum

Top Lodge

 

Wood Sorrel - Oxalis acetosella

Take Care

Friday 8 June

Damp again

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

Growing wild a garden escapee Druce's Crane's-bill - Geranium endressii x versicolor = G. x oxonianum

 Japanese Rose - Rosa rugosa

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

Another escapee quite easy to think it is Meadow Cranesbill but this is Purple Crane's-bill - Geranium ibericum x platypetalum = G. x magnificum

Yellow Day-lily - Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus found in the church yard

Take Care

Wednesday 13 July

Dry morning.

 Common Fleabane Buds- Pulicaria dysenterica

 Snowberry - Symphoricarpos albus

Taken at home on my Buddleia

 Small Tortoiseshell

 Small Tortoiseshell

 Small Tortoiseshell

All the flowers below are on the Blainscough Woods Reserve.

 Water Soldier - Stratiotes aloides

 Great Burnet - Sanguisorba officinalis

 Great Burnet leaves - Sanguisorba officinalis

 Great Burnet - Sanguisorba officinalis

 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Scentless Mayweed - Tripleurospermum inodorum

 Field Scabious - Knautia arvensis

 French Crane's-bill - Geranium endressii

On my way home had a look at the community garden.

Owls in the Coppull Community Garden

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.