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Lesser stitchwort flowers

Stitchwort flowers

Stitchworts are a plant whose common names claim a relationship which doesn’t actually exist. The greater and the lesser both produce pleasant white flowers in the spring; the “wort” suffix to the names may indicate that they were once thought to be useful medicinally or for some other herbal purpose.

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Lumps and bumps in a field

Lumps and bumps in the fields

Today’s posts are from in and around Kilpeck, tiny village outside Hereford which has a small church with some famous nine hundred year old carvings.

The concentration of buttercups in the middle of the field marks one of the raised areas which is a remnant of a one-time building in the deserted village.