Wednesday 5 September

Dry morning

 Canadian Goldenrod - Solidago canadensis

 Common Fleabane - Pulicaria dysenterica

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

 Rosebay Willowherb - Chamerion angustifolium

Acorns with Knopper Gall

Take Care

Wednesday 30 May

Dry Morning

 Barren Strawberry - Potentilla sterilis

 Broad Leaved Willowherb - Epilobium montanum

 Cows over the river

 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Honesty - Lunaria annua

Take Care

Tuesday 26 July

Lovely morning to wander about.

Big Lodge

 Common Fleabane - Pulicaria dysenterica

Haven't the Cygnets grown.

Fungi on the Rucks.

 Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

 Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

Day flying Moth on the Rucks

 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Self Heal - Prunella vulgaris - this is usually ground hugging, yet this one was over a foot tall, you just can't say how plants are going to grow.

Take Care.

Wednesday 29 June

Dry morning for our walk over the Lower Burgh Meadow, it was alive with colour.

Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera  - Managed to find another plant but the one with buds on has vanished completely, hope it has just been eaten by slugs.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Common Poppy - Papaver rhoeas

Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Not really a fly person but these just made me look twice - all sun bathing in the same direction and angle.

Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Six Spot Burnet Moth

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Take Care

Sunday 26 June at The National Wildflower Centre

National Wildflower Centre - Court Hey Park, Liverpool.

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Broad-leaved Everlasting-pea - Lathyrus latifolius

 Chicory - Cichorium intybus

 Common Evening-primrose - Oenothera biennis

 Common Evening-primrose - Oenothera biennis

 Dropwort - Filipendula vulgaris

 Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

 Greater Knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa

 Kidney Vetch - Anthyllis vulnereria

 Meadow Crane'sbill - Geranium pratense

 Nettle-leaved Bellflower - Campanula trachelium

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Purple Toadflax - Linaria purpurea

 Salad Burnet - Sanguisorba minor subsp. minor

A novel idea for a seat. 

 Small Scabious - Scabiosa columbaria

 Small White Butterfly

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

 Trailing Bellflower - Campanula poscharskyana

 White Melilot - Melilotus albus

 Wild Carrot - Daucus carota

Wild Marjoram - Origanum vulgare

Take Care.