Helping users to see like a hawk #plants

 

 

Plants, Common Hawkweed, provisional identification, July 2016

 

A Hawkweed, used in medicines to help improve vision, says Stevens. (more…)

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Marsh Bedstraw #plants

 

 

Plants, Marsh Bedstraw, July 2016

 

Galium palustre. (more…)

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Meadow Vetchling #plants

 

 

Plants, Meadow Vetchling, July 2016

 

Lathyrus pratensis. (more…)

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Flower fly and Bramble #insects #plants

 

 

Insect, Flower Fly, July 2016

 

Meliscaeva cinctella, provisional identification, on Rubus fruticosus. (more…)

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Minted #plants

 

 

Flowers, Mint, July 2016

 

Abundant Mentha on the damp east ride. (more…)

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Pretty in pink #plants

 

 

Flowers, Bramble, July 2016

 

Bramble, Rubus fruticosus. (more…)

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‘It was the time of roses’ #plants

 

 

Flowers, Field Rose, July 2016

 

From Time Of Roses by Thomas Hood. (more…)

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St John’s Wort #plants

 

 

Plants, St John's Wort, July 2016

 

Hypericum perforatum, provisional identification. (more…)

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Common Spotted Orchid #plants

 
 

Plants, Common Spotted Orchid, July 2016

 

Close-up of the still plentiful Dactylorhiza fuchsii. (more…)

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‘The numberless, the lonely,’ #plants

 

Plants, Common Nettle, June 2016

 

From A E Housman’s ‘The Stinging Nettle. (more…)

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‘Here is the fern’s frond, unfurling a gesture’ #plants

 

 

Plants, Fern and Creeping Buttercup, June 2016

 

Lady Fern, Athyrium filix-femina, provisional identification, with the ‘gesture’ Creeping Buttercup, Ranunculus repens. (more…)

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Bramble #plants

 

 

Plants, Bramble, June 2016

 

With the thistles starting to flower alongside Rubus fruticosus, nectar supplies will increase rapidly. (more…)

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