Copper beeches coming into leaf. From the numbers of mature trees scattered around the city, they were highly fashionable early last century, perhaps even late in the century before.
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Spring foliage: copper beeches
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Early spring flowers: lesser stitchwort
Lesser stitchwort, flowering from early spring and through the summer. Once believed to help wounds heal faster.
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Early spring flowers: cow parsley
Cow parsley, an early flowering and delicate umbellifer. Also called Queen Anne’s lace.
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Dandelion overhanging canal
One stalk of a dandelion which had already shed its seeds was standing proud over the water of the canal.
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Spring butterflies: holly blues
Holly blue butterflies are a regular April feature along the canal footpath near Compton. This year they seemed even more evident. There was a new one resting either on the ivy in the hedgerow, or on the footpath itself, every ten yards or so.
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Spring flowers: purple vetch
Peeping out among all the other vegetation, the purple flowers of a vetch – a wildflower member of the pea and bean family,
