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The prolific growth of early summer in a dappled woodland setting

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   plant:Cow ParsleyX   Dappled LightX   Early Summer   Flowering GrassesX   Forestry Commission PlantationX   top:LowlandsX   season:SummerX   subject:WoodlandX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

Sweet Woodruff, emerging in early summer. This is the same location as last... (more)

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June 1st is the first day of the meteorological summer, and it dawned misty and... (more)

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A pebble dashed exterior, and a green painted verandah make this look quite... (more)

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A sunny summer morning in the woods. Some of the doomed ash

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A summer evening as the sun is low in the sky.

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A dull summer's morn, of drizzle. This path is one of the long-forgotten... (more)

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Herb Robert, or Geranium robertianum, flowers right through the summer. Rain or shine

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Like all Hazels, this had produced an extensive, dark green leaf to... (more)

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Oak Crescent during summer rain.

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A rose hedge in summer splendour.

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One tree among several on the green. The one in the middle is a White Poplar... (more)

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The undergrowth is now dominated again by Bramble and, as here, Bracken. We are... (more)

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The home of a Froghopper lava. I saw the first cuckoo-spit of the summer... (more)

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The first week of meteorological summer sees the trees in full leaf, the... (more)

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Is there a better harbinger of summer warmth than a buttercup meadow?

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Geum urbanum, the Wood Avens or Herb Bennet, is now in flower, solidifying the... (more)

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The fog and mist had been coming and going all night, from around 03:00. It... (more)

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The long grass in my Orchard has recovered somewhat from the battering the rain gave it.

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The shade from the massed trees form a canopy so dense that no green plants will... (more)

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This tree stump is in the final stages of decomposition, not only providing a... (more)

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Holly tree tucked discreetly among the ash and the oaks at the northern edge of... (more)

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This little tree is capped with a mass of flowering honeysuckle.

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There is a joy in being able to see Larch cones from ground level they are... (more)

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The elderflowers have blown, and now the development of the elderberry begins.... (more)

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The waxy perfection of new Larch cones

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I like poppies.

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Redundant former oak branches below the cabinet, arranged in a variety of shapes

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I leave my orchard to grow "wild" to benefit the wildlife, mowing... (more)

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Another hole. There are lots of unidentified holes.

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The dense canopy prevents the bracken and the bramble colonising this area

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On most of this Hawthorn the leaves are around 2cm across, but on this newly... (more)

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A tiny swelling flower but turning into a Hazel nut. Note, too, the hairy leaf stems.

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The dull sky is still bright enough to shine through these holes that larvae... (more)

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The waxy cuticle has made the raindrops form into domes on this young Oak, and... (more)

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A rainy day, low unbroken cloud, changed the lighting within the plantations.... (more)

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The flower spike of Hedge Woundwort, growing near the drainage ditch. See... (more)

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The tree in TF0820 : Flowering below the graft - the rowan blossom is gone and already producing... (more)

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Fully grown now, the Bracken is chest-high.

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A tiny cluster of leaves at an old side branch. This is on the small Ash tree... (more)

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A sea of gold

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The weeping crab-apple between times: after the blossom, before the fruit.

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a pleasant walk along an ancient alignment

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A small hole recently dug by some forest creature

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A very blowsy version of a dog rose. I wonder if it is a garden escapee?

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Seedpods formed on the erstwhile flower stems of the English Bluebell.

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This is the third day running I have spotted some Cuckoo Spit, the home of the... (more)

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More greenness. The bracken is suddenly everywhere, mature and shielding out... (more)

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Tall trees under a blue sky, with Bracken underneath

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I love the delicacy of grass flowers and seed heads, which feed birds if not bees.

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