Author: David

Marsh marigolds, or kingcups. A buttercup species with plus-sized flowers, which are all the more striking for growing in clumps in damp places.

Cow parsley is one of the first umbellifers to flower each spring, and often grows in clumps along hedgerows.

A dandelion flowering by the path in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. On the flower, a common nettle-tap moth was quite active as it probed down for nectar.

Pale blue petals of a forget me not, which was growing by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Delicate pink herb robert flowers. These were growing by Wightwick Mill lock.

A mass of flower buds on an elder bush, just about to open their tiny petals.