Wednesday 13 May

Excellent walking morning

 Apple - Malus

 Big Lodge

 Sparrowhawk wing - all that was left found on the rucks, it's a small hawk but I wonder what happened to it?

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

 Part of the Old Cottages

 Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

 Hartstongue - Asplenium scolopendrium

 Male Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina 

 Slime Mould - Lycogala

 Spiraea sp.

 Marker Stone Mystery

 Tern

 Weigela - Weigela florida

 Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care

Friday 20 March

Dry & above freezing

The sticky bud tree Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

This is the mark left when the old leaf falls on Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum seems relevant it looks like a horse shoe to me.

 

This must be a bird sown shrub as it's on the rucks and not even on show, it was cut to the ground a while ago, did not think it would make a come back but it has,  Russian Olive - Elaeagnus angustifolia

Plenty around the valley it must have been planted originally but it crops up all over, Weigela - Weigela florida

Take Care

Sunday 27 April

Weather still okay, we are being promised a good summer, I have not got my shorts out yet :)

This has been lovely this year, Bird Cherry - Prunus padus

Another patch of Bluebells

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

Finally in flower but I was unable to get near due to bramble & nettle, Fringe Cups - Tellima grandiflora

 Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

 Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus pratensis

Play Area from across the river

 Weigela - Weigela florida

I always think the buds are more attractive than the flower. Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

Thursday 17 May

Damp Morning

 Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

 Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Weigelia - Weigela florida

Take Care

Thursday 10 May

Damp Morning

 Terns on raft

 Weigelia - Weigela florida

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Take Care

Monday 16 May

Showers this morning.

 Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

 Weigelia - Weigela florida

Weigelia - Weigela florida

Take Care.

Thursday 5 May

Dry Morning

 Cream Spot Ladybird - Fringe Cups - Tellima grandiflora

 Fringe Cups - Tellima grandiflora

 Hartstongue - Phyllitis scolopendrium

 Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

 Lord & Ladies  - Arum maculatum

 Lord & Ladies  - Arum maculatum

Still got 11 young - that is wonderful.

Weigelia in bud - Weigela florida

Take Care.