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Primroses, Wightwick Manor

Primroses, Wightwick Manor

Pink as well as yellow primroses on the edge of the wood at Wightwick Manor garden.

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Groundsel seed-head and flowers

Groundsel seed-head and flowers

Groundsel flowers – early morning, before they had opened properly, apart from the one well on the way to ripeness.

Groundsel flowers

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Tortoiseshell butterfly on a dandelion

Tortoiseshell butterfly on a dandelion

A tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on one of the dandelions growing on the edge of a lawn in the garden at Wightwick Manor.

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Horse chestnut leaves opening

Horse chestnut leaf opening

Horse chestnut leaves at different stages of unfolding

Horse chestnut leaf opening

This one has some threads of gossamer.

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Cowslips on a frosty morning

Cowslips on a frosty morning

Cowslips, early one morning recently, with a light dusting of frost.

Cowslips on a frosty morning

Growing in a garden, not wild.

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Dandelions

Dandelion with a small bee

Dandelion with a small bee in search of pollen…

Dandelion, ready to blow

and another where the seeds are almost ready to be blown away.