Wednesday 25 March

 Frost on the ground & fences this morning

Big Lodge

 Elder - Sambucus nigra flower buds not quite open

 Flowering Currant - Ripes sanguineum

 Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

Ivy Leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia

Take Care

Sunday 23 March

Up onto the Burgh nice morning, not many about, returning through the valley and up onto the rucks.

Barren Strawberry - Potentilla sterilis

Common Bistort  - Persicaria bistorta

 Cowslip - Primula veris

Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

 Ivy Leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia

Male Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas growing happily in a gully - Plock Wood.

 Just emerging onto Lower Burgh Road from Plock Wood it is more a dirt track than road, below is the garden centre on Birkacre Road.

 Looking down on the memorial garden at the Small Lodge

White Poplar - Populus alba

Take Care

Thursday 20 March

Good morning for mooching about the old cottage area in Drybones.

 Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

 Stile Dry Bones

 Flowering Currant - Ripes sanguineum

 Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

 Gooseberry - Ribes uva-crispa

 Great Wood-rush - Luzula sylvatica

 Lesser Celandine  - Ficaria verna

 Londonpride - Saxifraga umbrosa x spathularis = S. x urbium

 Lords & Ladies - Arum maculatum

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

Take Care

Wednesday 21 March

Dry day

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Alexanders - Smyrnium olusatrum

 Alexanders - Smyrnium olusatrum

 Box - Buxus sempervirens

 Colt's-foot - Tussilago farfara

 Cowslip - Primula veris

 Cowslip - Primula veris

Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

 Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

 Fox found dead by the roadside

 Great Scented Liverwort - Conocephalum conicum

 Great Scented Liverwort - Conocephalum conicum

 Ground Elder - Aegopodium podagraria

 Ramsons - Allium ursinum

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 Yarrow Valley View

 Yarrow Valley View

Yarrow Valley View

Take Care

Monday 19 March

Dry morning

 Flowering Currant - Ripes sanguineum

 Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

 Jay

Marsh Marigold - Caltha palustris

Take Care

Sunday 13 March

Mild and rain in the air.

Female Flower Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

Female Flowers Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

Male Flowers Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

Male Flowers Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

Feeding Time

on the Big Lodge.

Field Wood-rush - Luzula campestris

Forsythia

Wood Sorrel leaves - Oxalis acetosella

Take Care.