Spring turns to early summer and the wild flowers become more numerous and varied...
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| Sweet Woodruff |
This member of the bedstraw family, with its distinctive whorl of green leaves, was blooming at the edge of Wrenches Shaw, up by the Bassett's Seat overlooking Luddesdown...
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| Luddesdown from Bassett's Seat... |
The fields are starting to green up from their
prairie-like appearance of just a few short weeks ago...
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| Towards Cobham from Bassett's Seat |
Walking down Bowman's Hill to the junction of Warren Road with Cobhambury Road, the magnificent oak on the corner had
transformed its appearance...
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| Oak - Warren Road |
Walking down Warren Road to Bush Road, the roadside wild flowers were putting on a colourful show...
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| Bladder Campion... |
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| Green Alkanet... |
The blue Ground Ivy and White Dead-Nettle made a striking contrast in several areas...
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| Ground Ivy and White Dead-Nettle... |
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| Wild Mignonette.. |
One of the fields at the top of Bush Road to the north had acquired an unusual blue dusting...
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| Phacelia field... |
This was down to a crop of Phacelia, a widely-used "green manure" that gives soil coverage to otherwise bare ground, and which can be ploughed in prior to commercial sowing...
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| Phacelia... |
On the roadside verges, Cow Parsley was ubiquitous...
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| Cow Parsley... |
A magnificent Lilac bush was in full bloom at the bottom of Upper Bush Road...
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| Lilac... |
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