Author: David

Lime flowers just beginning to open.

Quite common, though less so than the greater plantain. This one was growing by one of the footpaths in the Smestow Valley LNR.

This tiny and delicate flower can be used as an ingredient for a wine, a “champagne”, a cordial or a herbal tea.

The rest of the flowers on this bush had already started to open, but for some reason the ones on this twig were still waiting to burst.

Several marsh marigold plants were growing by the pool in Bantock Park.

This mass of chestnut flowers are actually growing on several different twigs: it’s just the angle of the picture which makes them seem to be forming one single bunch.

The tree was on the edge of a clearing in the Cotwall End LNR.

There’s a small patch of bluebells every year by the footpath between the Railway Walk and the Barley Field.

The thorns on this thistle looked particularly spiky. The plant was growing in someone’s front garden.

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

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

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

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.

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