Wrenches Shaw to Bush Road...

Spring turns to early summer and the wild flowers become more numerous and varied...

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...

Luddesdown from Bassett's Seat...

The fields are starting to green up from their prairie-like appearance of just a few short weeks ago...

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...

Oak - Warren Road

Walking down Warren Road to Bush Road, the roadside wild flowers were putting on a colourful show...

Bladder Campion...

Green Alkanet...

The blue Ground Ivy and White Dead-Nettle made a striking contrast in several areas...

Ground Ivy and White Dead-Nettle...

Wild Mignonette..

 One of the fields at the top of Bush Road to the north had acquired an unusual blue dusting...

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...

Phacelia...

On the roadside verges, Cow Parsley was ubiquitous...

Cow Parsley...

A magnificent Lilac bush was in full bloom at the bottom of Upper Bush Road...

Lilac...