Minted #plants

Posted by on Jul 17, 2016 in 2016, Flowers, July, Mint, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Mint, July 2016

 

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

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Pretty in pink #plants

Posted by on Jul 16, 2016 in 2016, Bramble, Flowers, July, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Bramble, July 2016

 

Bramble, Rubus fruticosus. (more…)

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‘It was the time of roses’ #plants

Posted by on Jul 14, 2016 in 2016, Field Rose, Flowers, July, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Field Rose, July 2016

 

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

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St John’s Wort #plants

Posted by on Jul 12, 2016 in 2016, Flowers, July, Provisional identification, St John's-wort, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Plants, St John's Wort, July 2016

 

Hypericum perforatum, provisional identification. (more…)

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Common Spotted Orchid #plants

Posted by on Jul 8, 2016 in 2016, Common Spotted Orchid, Flowers, July, Plants, Summer | 0 comments

 
 

Plants, Common Spotted Orchid, July 2016

 

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

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‘The numberless, the lonely,’ #plants

Posted by on Jul 3, 2016 in 2016, Common Nettle, Flowers, June, Summer | 0 comments

 

Plants, Common Nettle, June 2016

 

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

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Visitor #plants #insects

Posted by on Jul 2, 2016 in 2016, Grass, Hover Fly, Insects, June, Plants, Summer, Unidentified | 0 comments

 

 

Plant, Insect, Flower Fly, Grass, June 2016

 

Possibly a type of flower or hover fly on a species of meadow or oat grass. (more…)

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

Posted by on Jul 1, 2016 in 2016, Creeping Buttercup, Fern, June, Lady Fern, Provisional identification, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

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

Posted by on Jun 29, 2016 in 2016, Bramble, Flowers, June, Plants, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Plants, Bramble, June 2016

 

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

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Common Spotted Orchid #plants

Posted by on Jun 27, 2016 in 2016, Common Spotted Orchid, Flowers, June, Plants, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Plants, Common Spotted Orchid, June 2016

 

Dactylorhiza fuchsii. (more…)

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Spindle #trees

Posted by on Jun 26, 2016 in 2016, June, Spindle, Summer, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Spindle, June 2016

 

Euonymus europaeus. (more…)

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‘… it seems the wood was sunk in sunlit dream’ #nature

Posted by on Jun 25, 2016 in 2016, General, June, Summer, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, general, June 2016

 

From ‘In the Wood’ by Boris Pasternak . (more…)

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