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Yucca buds and flowers, West Park and a nearby front garden

Yucca flowers, West Park

Flowers and flower buds on some of the impressive yuccas in West Park, and one picture of a similar plant growing nearby in a front garden on Tettenhall Road.

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Cotinus after rain

Cotinus after rain

The delicate twigs of a cotinus (the same bush featured here) covered with water droplets after persistent overnight rain recently.

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Teazles, Compton Park pool

Teazle, Compton Park pool

Teazles, another of the wold plqants colonising the damp ground around the new pool at Compton Park. It has recently been claimed that teazles may be carnivorous.

Teazle, Compton Park pool

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Greens: nettle in flower

Greens: nettle in flower

The tiny flowers at the top of a nettle: a picture in shades of green.

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Cygnet spreading its tiny wings

Cygnet spreading its tiny wings

One of the West Park cygnets, stretcning and fluttering its, so far tiny, wings then bending down to nibble a bit of grass.

Cygnet stooping

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Cotinus by a roadside

Cotinus by a roadside

A tangle of stems with fruit beginning to develop, and distinctive coloured leaves on a cotinus bush on the roadside edge of a garden.