A selection of flowers noticed on a brief visit to Morrab Garden – just a couple of minutes walk from the sea front at Penzance, a peaceful and pleasant public space.
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Waterlilies in flower. The Water Hawthorn, first in the series) was on a small pool in the garden of the Barbara Hepwork Museum, St Ives. The others in the Morrab Garden, Penzance.
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Goldfinch in a palm tree
A palm tree growing, like lots of others in Cornwall, in the open behind Porthminster beach, St Ives, providing a platform for a goldfinch to survey its territory.
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Lichens, Coast Path, Cornwall
Just a sample of the different species of lichen covering the rocks overlooking the sea along the Coast Path in the west of Cornwall. Some were near St Ives, others above Sennen Cove.
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Carp, Morrab Garden, Penzance
Large carp in the pool at Morrab Garden in Penzance. Morrab Garden is a small park just a few minutes walk from the sea front, where a profusion of semi-tropical plants are thriving.
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Wildflower Meadow, Bantock Park
A bright patch of colurs harmonising together. The yellow of corn marigolds, red from poppies, cornflower blue and green of the leaves (of wormwood too in one of the pictures). All were growing together in the wldflower meadow of Bantock Park.
The flowers formed islands of colour in the sandier soil which had previously been bunkers on the Pitch and Putt course, among the more subdued tones of the many species of ripening grasses in the rest of the meadow.