WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

lovely

 

Early Purple orchids pushing their way up through the grass, Durlston Country Park.

 

Coltsfoot, Tussilago, along the little road behind my garden. The flowers look as if they are going over, I didn't see them when open.
The leaves appear in the summer time.

 

A decent group of oyster mushrooms on a recently fallen tree

 

Is that a beech tree?
I saw one in the park that had come down in the wind a few days ago, massive tree and the whole thing had shattered when it hit the ground, the wood was totally infested with fungus.
Beech seems to go that way.

 

The Coltsfoot flowers were open yesterday afternoon :-

 

I saw some of these a few days ago, the ones I saw were almost leafless.

 

The flowers appear before the leaves, in February and March. The leaves don't grow until the summer.

 

Horsetail shoots appearing

 

horsetails are such bizzare plants. very cool

 

I've never seen horsetail so widespread over a field like that. Normally they seem to take over gardens!

 

It was a first for me too, they're in a paddock that's been grazed by pigs and goats but vacant at the moment. From a distance it looked like a field of asparagus.

 

Wood anenomes out in the spring sunshine

 

In front of our house: a violet.

 

Arum maculatum, Cuckoo Pint or Lords and Ladies.






First Cowslip I have seen so far.