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Flowers of purple and white clovers,

This fleshy plant used to be a cheap way of feeding pigs – hence the name.

Seed-heads of grasses.

The berries just beginning to form, in early June.

This is probably a young one. It let me get close enough for a picture even though I didn’t have a particularly long lens.

Not in fact what the name suggests, but a froth which hides and protect the nymph of a froghopper: a small insect.

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.