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Intense red berries and reddening leaves of a viburnum growing wild by the Birmingham Canal: the bush is also a popular garden plant.

Small fern growing from the mortar of the viaduct carrying the railway over the Birmingham Canal near the Stafford Road.

The newly-risen sun shining through the few gaps in the cloud cover earlier this month.

Attractive cultivated daisy, with the flower and as yet unopened buds earlier this month.

Outer casing of a conker left by one of the paths in West Park after a squirrel had disposed of the kernel.

Ivy comes into flower in October, one of the latest plants to do so.

The flowers don’t look spectacular to the human eye, but they attract lots of feeding insects, especially when the sun comes out.

This hoverfly was just one of many insects feeding on ivy growing by the canal towpath near Compton.