Category: David

The plant which gave its name to the sweeping implement which used to be made from it.

This fungus is now aging as it grows from the trunk of a fallen birch tree.

Apart from its beauty as a flower, this plant has had a whole long list of uses in herbal mdeicine.

When the poppies start to flower, summer should be here. These were in early June.

These were by the side of a main road.

And here a clump in a field of growing corn.

A heron stands on an alder, scanning one of the pools at Himley Hall for possible prey.

At the bottom right an electric blue damsel fly skims the water – click the picture to go to the Flikr version, where the damsel fly can just about be made out on the largest size.

This beautiful flower is a plant of damp meadows, here in a break in the woods in Baggeridge Park.