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Lone periwinkle growing among the nettles and other vegetation under the hedge on the verge of a quiet country lane not far from Bridgnorth.

Bedraggled bee clinging tightly to the leaf of a borage or similar. Plant and insect were both drying out after overnight rain.

Honesty, its flowers brightening springtime hedgerows, here by a road on the edge of Wombourne.

Looking up at elm flowers and a cloudless spring sky: not a common sight in the decades since Dutch elm disease struck. The beetle which carries the fungal infection usually finds the young trees when they have grown to hedgerow height.

Wild arums are found commonly growing under hedgerows and in other shady spots. They are so distinctive to have attracted a whole series of common names, including lords and ladies, cuckoo pint and jack in the pulpit.

Here the leaf-like protective hood was still tightly wrapped around the upright spadix with its flowers.

Jackdaw standing inches in front of a resting goat.

The pair were in the field in front of the former vicarage, nowadays luxury hotel and restaurant, in Worfield.