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My ageing guide books claim that wild carrot flowers from June to August. This was one of many wild carrots by the towpath of the Birmingham Canal which was still flowering earlier this month.

Buglosses are a group of flowers related to borage. The plant itself is sturdy, with stiff “hairs” to discourage animals from eating it.

The pale blue flowers seem disproportionately small (at least to me) for such a tall plant.

It’s quite common near to canal towpaths locally, and flowers for most of the summer and autumn.
This one, by the lower end of the Birmingham Canal, still  had lots of flowers earlier this month.

Meadowsweet seems to like a setting right by the canals locally: between the towpath and the water.

This one was still in flower recently

A line of close-planted leylandii create a near-sterile zone around their base, in part because the debris they shed acts as an effective growth-inhibiting mulch.

The mushrooms poking through this debris here are an agaric species, as indicated by the ring on the one in the picture above, which had been disturbed to show at least part of the stem.

Bedraggled and barely open sow thistle flowers on a plant near Compton lock on a gloomy day earlier in October.

Where the web of this garden cross spider was against the background of the sky, it didn’t register in this picture, making it look like the spider was levitating.