I'd be wary - bristle-grass is very good at moving about by itself, and if it's a frost-prone area it may not persist .... but on the other hand it could become a pest, given the current trend towards milder winters and hotter summers.

There is a wonderful old Keith Floyd recipe for 'cabbage pie', which is a (nicer than it sounds) mixture of fried bacon and onion plus boiled, but very well-drained, cabbage ... and batter-pudding mix. Similar to toad in the hole but marginally healthier! Wonderful with ketchup 😀

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It's that time of year, isn't it! Cauliflower cheese here 🥰

White campion usually lurks around the margins of arable fields and red is in shady hedge bases and along woodland rides. If you have a fairly mixed land-use in your local area then they'll have had lots of opportunity to meet up and make pink campions.

A mix of 4/5 petals is a dead giveaway for a hybrid. Also look for a mix of 3/4/5 leaflets - that's what alerted me to your photo being a likely hybrid. The straight cross Tormentil x Creeping Cinquefoil is P x anglica and is fertile; backcrosses with the parents less so, & produce few, if any seed.

I suspect this one might be a hybrid between Tormentil and Creeping Cinquefoil (hence the long flowering period); the hybrid is fully fertile, but backcrosses with either parent, so not entirely sure what you have here, albeit it looks closer to the Tormentil parent.

I think it's the best of both worlds - the hybrid between red and white campion: Silene x hampeana (possibly a backcross with a white campion to create this pale blush colour). Pretty common in areas where both parents are present.

Quite a lot of annuals are having a second flowering :)

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Echinochloa crus-galli is taking a back seat to Setaria pumila in Norfolk/Suffolk at the moment. Also suddenly seeing 'escaped' E esculenta along roadsides. Changing fashions in game cover mix, I suspect ...

That's disappointing...

😱 - definitely don't underestimate Urtica urens. Those soft Highlanders have no idea!

😨 I feel inadequate by comparison. My fieldwork might conceivably involve the risk of an occasional stubbed toe but we don't even have much in the way of hard rock to stub toes on in these parts!

It was a rather nice one, wasn't it!