Category: David

Horse chestnut flowers, in different stages of opening on the same West Park tree. The flowers are arranged on a spike rising from the twig, the structure resembling a candelabra.

Partly-open leaves on a horse chestnut tree. At this stage, the leaves were still drooping because the tree hadn’t yet pumped enough water in them to raise them.

The reds and greens of a rhubarb in flower. This one was on one of the plots on my local allotments, seen at the end of March.

Flower buds just beginning to open on one of the many rhododendron bushes in West Park – the opened flowers had pure white petals.

The flowers of a snake’s head fritillary look much to large to be carried by the long thin stem, and do droop under their own weight. I noticed these in a well-kept front garden.

Bluebells, partly opened in front gardens, which attracted my attention when I was passing recently. There is a tiny hoverfly on the flower in the lower picture.