The brown remains of a cow parsley, which flowered in early spring, in front of a patch of purple loosestrife, flowering currently. A few great wilowherb, also flowering )with flowers much the same colour as the loosestrife) have also got into the picture.
The shiny metallic green of the body of the greenbottle fly, and its bright red eyes, as it suns itself on a mint, and flies from leaf to leaf.
The range of colours adopted by blackberries as they ripen on a bramble. Some look as though they are already good enough to eat.
Teazles at the end of their flowering season. Before the Stratford on Avon LNR was developed as a nature reserve, one of the fields which had more or less been left to manage itself was dominated by teazles.
Common bird’s-foot trefoil [Lotus corniculatus], just growing by the edge of the footpath on the Stratford on Avon Local Nature Reserve,
Buck’s-horn plantain [Plantago coronopus], until recently limited to coastal regions by its preference in soil types, but now spreading inland. This one was growing on a pavement, directly under the wall of the Quikfit outlet in the centre of Stratford on Avon.