Category: David

Elderberries at different stages of ripening, even though they were growing on the same bush and pictured at the same time.

They are one of the fruits which which looks likely to produce a good crop this year.

Kniphofia, or more familiarly red hot poker, flower growing in a bed at the back of the West Park Tea Rooms.

Something seemed to have caught the attention of this moorhen and young chick as they stood on a flattened bed of reeds.

Plant growing in the area which until recently was fenced off to allow the bedding in of the new pool in the Smestow Valley. I’m not sure what it is, but perhaps an orchid.

Honeysuckle berries: they’ll turn a darker red as they become completely ripe.

Giant polypores are one of the largest of the bracket fungi. This one was infesting a mature oak tree, with the fruiting bodies appearing some ten feet or so off ground level.

The fruiting bodies often grow at ground level, coming from buried wood such as tree roots.