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More of the traditional breed livestock from Mary Arden’s farm. These longhorn cattle live up to their name.

There’s a bull, a bull calf and cows.

Small and delicate, little japanese umbrella mushrooms are sometimes called pleated inkcaps. Most noticable when growing in short grass, but also found, like this one, skulking under hedgerows.

The other traditional breed of pig at Mary Arden’s farm in Wilmcote are Tamworths. On my occasional visits to the farm, they seem to usually be sleeping just inside the entrance to their shed and looking cute, often at the same time.

Among the heritage breeds kept by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Mary Arden’s farm in Wilmcote are two types of pigs

Mangalitzas look like very old carpets with very deep but now worn piles, partially matted with mud. The breed originated in Hungary.

Cornflower in flower with its distinctive shades of blue.

Common blue butterfly warming itself in sunlight. As it moved it showed both its blue upper wing surface and its delicately patterned underwing.