I have quite a backlog to catch up with on what is happening out in the wood and the walk to it because I have started this blog so late in the year. So my apologies. I have put up 10 pictures here, taken this week to show some of them. I have over 30 more which I will try to catch up on.
Horse Chestnuts starting to grow. We have lots of trees and very few people seem to gather conkers nowadays.
Horse Chestnuts starting to grow. We have lots of trees and very few people seem to gather conkers nowadays.
Clover, buttercups and cranesbill grow on the field as we walk to the wood, having been set by the council in a wild flower mix when the open space was set up. This is not cut throughout the year and allowed to grow. Earlier in the year we had Cowslips and Primroses and other things.
A close up of the buttercups and clover.
These buttercups exists, as a natural patch, in the wood which is a little unusual. They are normally a meadow plant.
A view to show the extent of the wild flower sowing.
A blackberry bramble in flower. As they rake your trousers, socks or ankles they get cursed, but they have their own beauty and they fruit forgives them all they wrong doings.
Bramble in bud.
The bracken starts to stand about head height.
As the bracken starts to 'take over' the wood becomes dense with undergrowth and starts to take on the feel of fairy tale woods where children stray from the path and woodsmen work.
Bittersweet. One of the nightshade family and so children often confuse this with 'deadly' nightshade. It is a beautiful and delicate flower.
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