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Three little convolvulus flowers, white and delicate pink, grouped together as the plant spread low over a grassy path.

Two young rare breeds pigs boars, siblings, fighting over access to the watter trough in their pen on Mary Arden’s Farm lat month. The more aggressive of the pair had taken a commanding position by standing in, as well as drinking from the trough.

Grapes ripening, hanging down over a garden wall.

Two young mangalitza sows on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote, which had managed to cake themselves in mud during the long hot dry spell this summer.

The King Stone is the third component of the Rollright Stones; a single standing stone, on the opposite side of a narrow but sometimes busy coutry rode to the stone circle. The two features are hidden from each other by a belt of trees cloaking the circle from the road.

The King Stone’s contorted shape is less to do with weathering since it was raised, perhaps around 1,500 B.C., than with bits being chipped off by people in more recent centuries.

Broad-leaved helleborine, a woodland orchid just about to flower on the edge of Lydiates Wood, Baggeridge Country Park, at the very start of August.