Sunday 17 May

Pleasant walking day

 Apple Mint - Mentha x villosa

 Canada Goose

 Common Water-crowfoot - Ranunculus aquatilis

 Coot Egg

 Mandarin Drake

 Ragged Robin - Silene flos-cuculi

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

 Water Avens - Geum rivale

Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra

Take Care

Monday 5 May

Another lovely day

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

 This is the bottom end of the Lower Burgh Meadow - Plock Wood, I am now calling it Funeral Pyre Wood, more have set on fire and believe me they are big enough to burn a body on - I can only class it as total disregard for wild life and the wood.

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Ribwort - Plantago lanceolata a favourite nickname for us is Turk's Hat

 Thyme Leaved Speedwell - Veronica serpyllifolia

Water Avens - Geum rivale

Take Care

Friday 17 May

Damp Morning 

We went out for dinner and called at the Cemetery on the way back to look how the ponds were doing, they were set up a few years ago and now look like they have been there forever.

 Plenty of plants in and around - 

 Water Avens - Geum rivale, planted and a few in the area, not one that we find growing wild in this area, although not impossible.

Water Plantain - Alisma plantago-aquatica, we get this in our local ponds growing wild, the treat was the Water Horsetail - Equisetum fluviatile the two thin stalks in the middle of the plantain, not a rarity as we see it a lot on the canal

Take Care

Thursday 21 May

What started out a wet dismal morning turned into a wonderful day, we immediately started looking for plants.

We began in Clitheroe Castle's grounds, then around the streets and back alleys. Then we had our lunch at Brungerley Park near the bridge, we did part of the sculpture trail and then onto Cross Hill quarry.

Bugle
Common Milkwort
Twayblade
Crosswort

This is Giant Knotweed x Japanese Knotweed - sometimes called Connolly's knotweed.

Feverfew

French Sorrel

Gooseberry growing at the side of the river.

Hoary Plantain

Hybrid Aven - cross between Water Aven & Wood Aven (Herb Bennet)

Pendulous Sedge growing in a back street.

Springbeauty

Thyme-leaved Sandwort

Water Aven

Wild Strawberry

Bulbous Buttercup

A really good day, considering the rain was coming down like stair rods on the way up. Never did another drop after I got there.