Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Grows all over the Valley, usually one of the last to flower among the umbellifers.

Wednesday 24 July

Dry Morning

 I have had this moth ID as a worn looking Blackneck 

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Leaves & flowers of Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Take Care

Tuesday 27 September

Dry Morning.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bird Pellet - about 2 inches / 5cm in size I know these are studied so I have no doubt someone will be able to tell us who did it?

 Big Lodge 

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

 Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Later I had a walk down the New Road still plenty in flower.

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Enteridium Lycoperdon a slime mold.

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Bridge below Sunny Mount

 Sunny Mount Entrance

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Honeysuckle  - Lonicera periclymenum

 Path through the Rucks

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

Speckled Wood

Take Care.

Monday 4 July

Dry Morning

We thought we had a new swan on the Big Lodge

 it was Lonely Lucy, do not know where she has been but it was her, she came straight over for her food, it did not take long before Billy Swan was trying to chase her off.

 Black Headed Gulls

 Picnic Play Area

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Marsh Bedstraw - Galium palustre

Take Care.

Saturday 7 August

Damp morning.

Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

Wild Angelica - Angelica sylvestris

Wild Angelica Leaves - Angelica sylvestris

Tuesday 7 July

Took this photo yesterday, it's garden privet - once upon a time it was part of the long gone Primrose Hill Cottages. When I smell the blossom I am transported to my Grandparents house - this was the first flower seed or so I thought I planted, unfortunately it was not ripe so no seedlings.

Ladybird Pupae

Perennial Sow Thistle in bud - always try to see this plant in the sunshine when it's in flower, it's a stunner (well to me it is).

Upright Hedge Parsley another umbellifer, but easier to name due to its leaf.

Distinctive leaf of Upright Hedge Parsley.

Yarrow

Yellow Loosestrife - this was growing next to Dotted Loosestrife on Birkacre.