David

The spikiness of this artichoke is a clue to the plant’s relationship to thistles.

There is quite a colony of teazels among the vegetation on the bank of the river Penk as it goes through Penkridge.

Here they are in flower, seen from the bridge which carries the Stafford road over the river.

A late brood of swallow chicks were still being fed by their parents a week or so back, in one of the barns at Mary Arden’s farm, Wilmcote.

Evening primrose growing on the sandy bank by the side of the road of one of the little lanes near to Worfield.

This rush was in flower near the Birmingham Canal towpath just before the junction with the Staffs & Worcs canal.

A water lily flowering among the mass of vegetation surrounding and on the surface of the small pond at Bantock Park.