Saturday 21 March 2015

Really feels like spring this morning

Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) doing its stuff for early bees.

Not sure if this is Goat Willow or Grey Sallow;
the main thing is that it's waking up from its winter sleep!
Ground Elder shoots (Aegopodium podagraria)
Ground Elder shoots (Aegopodium podagraria) are springing up in their usual places on the boggy brae. Boggybrae wildflower (well, plant, anyway; it will flowers later) no. 8 for 2015  >>>>

The beautiful spring leaves of Pyramidal Bugle
(Ajuga pyramidalis)
Boggybrae wildflower no. 9 for 2015
There are Pignut leaves by the thousand, here with
a Polytrichum moss.
(Conopodium majus)
Boggybrae wildflower no. 10 for 2015
Gorse! (Ulex europaeus) Boggybrae wildflower no. 2 for 2015
Yes, I know it's out of order. Story of my life ;)
A tangled daffodil with some young Yarrow leaves.

Young Yarrow leaves (Achillea millefolium)
showing why its other name is Milfoil
from the Latin "thousand leaves".
Boggybrae wildflower no. 11 for 2015
Primroses (Primula vulgaris)


Primroses from above on the south-east slope. There are still only a couple of patches of flowers open. We've a bit of a way to go before there are a thousand plus flowering at once.
Boggybrae wildflower no. 5 for 2015






Narcissus pseudonarcissus/Wild Daffodil


The wild daffodils still have a way to go too. These are the first few. Boggybrae wildflowers no. 7 for 2015

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