Wednesday 16 July

Got to admire the new planting and trough in the village, I am going to nickname it the Coppull triangle

Mainly Begonias but a good many poppies to commemorate the wars

There are a few herbs and wild flowers amongst the garden flowers

Take Care

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 10 May

Damp Morning

 Terns on raft

 Weigelia - Weigela florida

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

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

Friday 30 September

Hot & Dry at Knott End.

 I enjoyed watching this Black Headed Gull on the beach finding tasty morsels.

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum seem to have come back to life. 

 We passed this man on the sea wall - no he's not making sandcastles, he's digging for lug worms.

 Drift Wood a lovely piece but too big & heavy to carry far.

 One of the horse's in the field.

 Jet Ski racing.

 Lapwing - the colours are lovely never noticed this before.

Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium 

 Pheasant in moult

Sea Mayweed - tripleurospermum maritimum with a small tortoiseshell on it. 

 The tide was high today.

Wild Radish - Raphanus raphanistrum

Take Care.