Wednesday 9 April

Good morning

 We called at the Pie Shop on Pepper Lane in Standish - they are among our top five of pie bakers - always plenty in waiting to be served - that's the best advert you can get.

 Common Field Speedwell - Veronica persica growing in a nick on the footpath

 Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

 Garden Grape Hyacinth - Muscari armeniacum

Bridge over the River Yarrow

Take Care

Thursday 27 March

Continuing with flowers today 

This is a very special Primrose - Primula vulgaris - I know they grow everywhere, yet this is the last of the ones that Primrose Hill was probably named after - the hill was supposed to have been full in the spring, that was years ago, now we have seen a decline and last year one of the last two was dug up, what for ? I wish I knew. So we now have one and it is healthy - will it be left in peace and flower again next year and maybe our children & grand children will not have to ask why is it called Primrose Hill.

 Primrose - Primula vulgaris

 Ivy Leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia

 Ivy Leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia

 Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

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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

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Sunday 28 April

Dry morning 

 Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

 Coot Chick - six of them but I could not get them together :(

 Ivy Leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia

 Lords & Ladies - Arum maculatum

Red Currant - Ribes rubrum

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Monday 28 May

Dry Morning

 Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga

 Common Vetch - Vicia sativa

 Cut-leaved Cranesbill - Geranium dissectum

 Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

 Ragged Robin - Silene flos-cuculi

 Ribwort - Plantago lanceolata

 Shepherd's Purse - Capsella bursa-pastoris

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

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Monday 7 May

Dry Morning

 Honesty - Lunaria annua

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

Thyme Leaved Speedwell - Veronica serpyllifolia

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Thursday 3 May

Dry Morning

 Dock Beetle Eggs

 The culprit Green Dock Beetle

 there are lots on the docks at the moment

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

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Sunday 15 April

Dry Morning

 Cherry Laurel - Prunus laurocerasus

 Garlic Mustard - Alliaria petiolata

 Groundsel - Senecio vulgaris

 Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum

 Ivy-leaved Speedwell - Veronica hederifolia ssp. lucorum

Mistle Thrush

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