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Bantock Park marsh marigolds

Marsh marigold flowering

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

Marsh marigold flowering

Marsh marigold flowering

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Horse chestnut flowers

Horse chestnut flowers

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.

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Backlit ash leaves

Ash leaves

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

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Smestow Valley bluebells

Smestow Valley bluebells

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

Smestow Valley bluebells

Smestow Valley bluebells

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Thorny thistle

Thorny thistle

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Colourful impressions

Colourful impressions

Near the house in Bantock Park.

Colourful impressions

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Top of a monkey puzzle tree

Top of a monkey puzzle tree

These natives of the southern Andes do look like their branches are the models for a three-dimensional maze.

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Shrivelled mushroom

Shrivelled mushroom

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

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Another fly on another buttercup

Fly on a buttercup

This fly was standing on the edge of the petal, seeming to use the flower as a look-out post.