Woodland Flowers of the Wye valley; Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis)
This little plant flowers quite early and as it is quite small it is easily overlooked. As you can see …
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Woodland plants of the Wye Valley; Coltsfoot. (Tussilago farfara)
Not really a full on woodland plant, you can find it growing in a variety of places, there is quite …
Woodland Flowers of the Wye valley; Wild Daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
I had never seen wild daffodils before this year, at least not knowingly. You often see daffodils growing in the …
Woodland flowers of the Wye valley; Gorse (Ulex europea)
The Song of The Gorse Fairies “When gorse is out of blossom,” (Its prickles bare of gold) “Then kissing’s out …
Woodland flowers of the Wye valley; Lesser Celandine.
Lesser Celandine, (Ficaria verna) is probably the first woodland plant to come into flower each year. There are some more …
Rushes at Ninewells wood
The woods are home to several species of grasses, rushes and sedges, and even some wood-rushes. To the casual observer …
Recent work at the wood
Recently despite Autumn moving in, it has been beautiful sunny weather, so I have been making good use of it at …
Goodbye summer; hello winter.
Here are two photos I took last week, at virtually the same moment. For me one was the last vestige of Summer …
Trail camera update.
Well not a lot to report, I have had the cameras in the woods, on and off for some while …
More squirrel damage.
Not content with eating my nuts, hazel nuts that is, the squirrel has now started to remove the bark from …
