Category: David

Flowers of a ribes with the water of one of the pools at Badger visible behind.

Come autumn, the local birds will be treated to fruit related to blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries.

Lone tulip which was growing in the enclosure by the pool at Bantock Park.

Dandelions growing close together like a miniature forest in a front garden I noticed in passing.

Ground ivy is not actually related to ivy. It’s a hedgerow plant with leaves supposedly a little like those of the climbing plant, though I don’t see much similarity.

Instead, it’s a dead nettle, a group of plants which aren’t actually nettles, but get their name because they look a bit like nettles. Are you confused enough yet?

Hawthorn flowers also known as may blossom, so the bushes should be covered with it about now.

View from a footbridge over the river Worfe (just visible in the foreground) towards an old mill and its millpond.

Rindleford is the last settlement on the Worfe before it joins the Severn near Bridgnorth. Originally a hamlet for millers and farmers: several of the buildings, constructed from stone quarried nearby, now seem to have undergone barn-conversion type transformation to up-market housing.