David

A composition in complementary colours.

Quite a few umbellifers this year seem to be having flowers which are pickish or purplish rather than white.

A common meadow flower.

The flowers of this nettle were so abundant they seem to have hidden the rest of the plant.

Red rattle is a semi-parasitic plant. These were on the Saltwells LNR in Brierley Hill.

The small black dots on this flower are all tiny beetles.