Category: David

This plant was growing overhanging the canal.

This dandelion clock still has almost all its seeds.

In the middle of August, a nightshade plant which was still flowering.

Some of the berries on the plant were beginning to ripen.

Others seemed to be about half ripe.

Yet others were beginning to approach the bright red colour which is the mark of fully ripe berries.

As the flowers indicate, knapweeds are related to thistles.

These poppies were growing in a field just west of Seisdon at the start of the month.

The ripening seeds of a grass plant.

This horse mushroom was growing in a grass verge inches from the edge of a minor road.

This seems to be a small relative of the parasol mushrooms.

A yellow water lily on the pond outside Boscobel House.

Mushrooms can often be found on wood chip mulch, as here with these hare’s foot inkcaps.

The distinctive berries of the cuckoo pint.