Saturday 4 May

Damp morning

We find flowers suffering from fasciation occasionally, it occurs in most plants but the Dandelion seems prone to it

Looks like three flower heads fused

Dandelion - Taraxacum

Take Care

Sunday 1 May

Sunny again at Knott End.

Red Legged Partridge wandering round the site.

 Dandelion Fasciation

Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

Take Care.

Friday 15 April

Lovely morning on the beach at Knot End

Arnold & Meg on the beach

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

Common Whelk Egg Cases - Buccinum undatum we found lots of these and I wondered what they could be, my first thought was a seaweed of some sort, Whelks never crossed my mind, they are laid and attached to a solid surface, when the first eggs hatch they begin to feed on the other eggs. The empty cases eventually break free - must be a lot of whelks still out there even though they are on the menu in lots of places.

Dandelion suffering from Fasciation

Misty View to Fleetwood

Fungi

Garden Grape Hyacinth - Muscari armeniacum

Goat Willow - Salix caprea

Shepherd's Purse - Capsella bursa-pastoris

Spanish Bluebells - Hyacinthoides hispanica

Take Care.

Saturday 15 May

We were on our own again, up on to the Burgh to have a look round.

Arnold looking for flowers.

Bog Stitchwort a very tiny plant, you can not see it in this photo but the five petals are so deeply cut it looks like it has ten when it is fully open.

Colt's-foot seed heads.

Common Comfrey.

Common Twayblade found by member of the Chorley Natural History Society.

So I had to have a look, will be watching these to see them flower.

Common Vetch.

Cowslips

Cuckooflower

The weird looking Dandelion is suffering from fasciation.

Ground Ivy

Gorse

Hairless Lady's Mantle

Hawthorn Buds

Herb Robert. We get lots of this in back garden were I clean our boots off.

Meadow Vetchling Leaves

Red Campion

Ribwort

White Dead Nettle

White Poplar

Take Care.

Sunday 10 May

Good dry day, met Debbie and later Dawnie who was on her way home.

Dandelion with fasciation - the stem is flattened and the flower become large and crested as though there are a few stems and flowers growing as one.

The fasciated one across a normal one growing with it.
Hawthorne in flower.

Shepherd's Purse

Yellow Pimpernel showing the flower on it's long thin stalk plus the leaves and buds.