Hogweed flower

Hogweed

This fleshy plant used to be a cheap way of feeding pigs – hence the name.

Hogweed

Magpie

Magpie

This is probably a young one. It let me get close enough for a picture even though I didn’t have a particularly long lens.

Cuckoo spit

Cuckoo spit

Not in fact what the name suggests, but a froth which hides and protect the nymph of a froghopper: a small insect.

Broom

Broom

The plant which gave its name to the sweeping implement which used to be made from it.

Woundwort

Woundwort

Apart from its beauty as a flower, this plant has had a whole long list of uses in herbal mdeicine.