Wisteria on a pub

Wisteria

They grow as robust woody vines, but wisterias are related to peas.

Wisteria

The flowers are showier and more fragrant, but somewhat like pea flowers. Later in the year the seeds will be in pods.

Wisteria

This fine mature wisteria is growing across the front of the Mermaid on the Bridgnorth Road.

Wisteria

Snails making contact

Snails making contact

It was a damp morning, so I didn’t hang around to see what happened next. These snails on the top of a wet wall could have been getting ready to get amorous, or facing up to a fight over territory.

Flowering ornamental conifer

Flowering ornamental conifer

I presume that the pink parts at the end of this structure are flowers. An exotic-looking ornamental tree in someone’s front garden.

Shrivelled mushroom

Shrivelled mushroom

This bedraggled mushroom was growing at the foot of one of the roadside trees not far from West Park.