Devil's-bit Scabious Day

24 July is Devil's-bit Scabious Day (DBS day) at the Boggy Brae

The first flower opening

The triangle of DBS marked out

Today's scythed and Flymo-ed patch

Same patch with more perspective.There are more DBS plants  near the base of that Downy Birch tree.They were the originals that have spread to the marked triangle.

Mown and unmown

A deer path that I use too

Boggy Brae boggy lane to the field,
our garden boundary to the right.

The dry bit of the lane (and the way out!),
our garden boundary to the left.

Now that I know what I'm looking for, I'm finding more patches of
Opposite-leaved Saxifrage. Here are some young-looking plants
at the north-east-facing base of our boundary wall.

Here is my Unknown Tiny Fern with its accompanying
Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss, also at the base of the garden wall.

And here again with a small young Hart's-tongue Fern for scale.

This Scaly Male Fern is over five feet tall by the same wall.
Our ferns go from titchy to huge within few yards.