Reds in the garden 23 September 2020

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Argyll, autumn, boggybrae, garden

Red spear flower

Some kind of bistort

Wild cherry leaf

A log fron a recently felled cypress tree

Fuchsia

16 May 2020

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Argyll, boggybrae, garden, spring

Looking west up the garden

Native bluebells

Ferns along the drive

A white native bluebell

Pignut flower

A marshy spot with cuckoo flower, bugle, and the leaves of ribwort plantain

Bugle

Roseroot at the top of the retaining wall

Old gold

Old gold in the field beyond the bracken while the mist lifts

Late April in the garden

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Argyll, garden, spring

Looking down towards the loch
Early morning light

Wild cherry blossom on one of the “deer scrapes” where they have been digging up monbretia corms to eat

First bluebell today

I sat on an old log looking up and listening to a Chiffchaff

Violets at last on the violet steps

A fresh new Orange-tip butterfly on cowberry

I think this might be a dogwood that I planted a decade ago but which deer have nibbled down every year.

This year I’m trying to protect the dogwood with bits of spiny twigs and holly

19 March welly wander

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bryophytes, flowers, garden, spring, trees

Ulota crispa/Bruch’s pincushion on a young hawthorn tree whose buds have not yet opened

Skeleton of last year’s Selfheal

Bonfire moss. It turns to lovely coppery colours later in its development

First of the wild daffodils

Periwinkles (Vinca major) and their shadows

Elder, ivy and daffs

Young leaves of the elder that’s growing through the south slope rowan tree

Ivy leaf in rushes beneath the elder/rowan trees

Miniature daffodils that Toadlet first grew at primary school

Heath Star-moss

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Argyll, bryophytes, species in my garden

Heath Star-moss/Campylopus introflexus

This moss is growing on rotting wood in the garden. I like it but apparently it’s an invader from the Southern Hemisphere.

Relentless Rain

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bryophytes, flowers, garden, moss, winter

Crocuses and snowdrops are looking a little thin and straggly and not really opening their flowers but the Green Mountain Fringe moss, the Common Tamarisk moss and Caledonia lichens are loving the wet weather.

Tight shut purple crocuses

Straggling snowdrops

Green Mountain fringe moss

Common Tamarisk moss and Cladonia lichen

I’m dictating rather than typing this text because I have a broken shoulder at the moment. It has been quite amusing how the phone has interpreted Cladonia as Cardonia or Caledonia and lichen as like in.

February flowers

Forsythia

Primroses

A few daisies are open; there will be many more

Purple and orange

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Argyll, boggybrae, garden

First pic taken at 1209GMT and second at 1254GMT but that was real sunshine we had today! ☀️🙂