Friday 29 January

Mild today, we are expecting bad weather coming in, yet we see a little bit of spring trying to make it through.

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

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Saturday 3 January

Damp Morning just the odd spot of rain nothing serious

 Looking toward Sunny Brow from the Rucks

 This old stump has produced Chicken of the Wood fungi in the past - we live in hope

Found these on rucks footpath Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

 

Rear side of Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

 Sunny Brow looking toward the Bridge

 River Yarrow Valley

My first tick for 2015 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album in flower, hope I get a few more for my list this year.

Last year I had 308 different plants in flower in the wild.

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Monday 17 November

Mild, damp morning with just enough sun to show the beauty of Autumn.

 Gulls making use of the Tern Raft, until the feisty Terns come again next year and reclaim it.

 This is the time of reflection, not only of the trees in the water but our selves

 to sit quietly and reflect on all things

 I find I sit reflecting on things past, looking back more & more, when young I looked forward, strange how we change as we age.

 I call this no2 bridge in the park, I love to look what is growing from the walls and banks

This White Dead Nettle - Lamium album will flower as long as possible - is there only me that grows this now

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Sunday 2 March

Last lot from Sunday

All the flowers

 Butterbur - Petasites hybridus

 Opposite Leaved Golden-Saxifrage - Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

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Wednesday 29 January

Raining when we set out, stopped and we enjoyed a dry walk.

 Canada Goose coming for breakfast

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album in flower, it can flower almost all year round if it does not get too cold

 We think this dogs name is Blue he was a little confused when we passed him as he fell in love with Meg, well Meg is nearly 11 years and a grumpy old woman so his advances were wasted. His owner took him on his way and we carried on to the far side of the lodges, yes you have guessed right 10 minutes later Blue came trotting towards us and we expected his owner to follow, no owner appeared so we headed to the car park - just as I wondering what to do with him, his owner appeared from the opposite way, he thought he gone on and did not see him head back to us, we think someone had been about with a bitch in season, Meg was shattered trying to out run the youngster, slept most of the day.

 The blanket should be under her but she makes her own bed and misses it completely.

Fast asleep

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Sunday 20 October

Showers this morning

Two views of the Big Lodge

 Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

The Small Lodge

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

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Wednesday 22 May

Dry morning

All these wild flowers are growing in my garden tubs

 Common Vetch - Vicia sativa

 Cuckooflower - Cardamine pratensis

 Field Forget Me Not - Myosotis arvensis

 Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

 Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum

 Lesser Trefoil  - Trifolium dubium

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Take Care.

Sunday 17 February

Dry Morning

 Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum this is the most common comfrey in the park, still good for those aches and pains.

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album, flowers for most of the milder winters

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Wednesday 25 May

Dry Morning

 Colt's-foot - Tussilago farfara

 Common Water-crowfoot - Ranunculus aquatilis

 Common Water-starwort - Callitriche stagnalis

 Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

 Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

 Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

 Great Crest Grebes one of them has a baby under it's wing

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

 Honesty - Lunaria annua

 Londonpride - Saxifraga umbrosa x spathularis = S. x urbium

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Three new wood carvings on the park

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