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More fruit than flower, some kind of sycamore keys, maple family I think.
A pair of sycamore keys.
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Ivy flowers and berries. Lady birds seem to like them.
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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White deadnettle seen earlier in the week.
Serrated leafed and small white flowers of white deadnettle plant.
October 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Nipplewort blooming this week.
Small yellow flowers of nipplewort
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Fleabane with a couple of #pollinatorpals
September 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Chicory flowers just hanging on.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Bit late, white clover still blooming.
September 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Nearly forgot, not a flower but this teazel is showing viviparous germination.
Teazel with green growth showing it’s seeds have germinated before they have dropped from the plant - green shoots between the teazel spikes.
September 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Spindle tree seeds, orange and pink don’t clash in nature.
Flowers of the spindle tree, pink casing opens to show the orange seeds inside. Some pink casings of spindle tree containing orange seeds.
September 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Ragwort, oxeye Daisy, buddleia in flower and some nightshade berries putting colour into my walks this week.
Yellow flowers with rich yellow centres, ragwort plant still flowering. A couple of oxeye daisies in a hedge, yellow centred white petalled large flowers. Long purple spikes with many small purple flowers covering them. Long bluey green leaves. Clusters of vivid red heart shaped berries of bittersweet nightshade.
September 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Ivy flowers with ivy bees.
Ivy head with many flowers. An ivy bee on ivy flowers Ivy bee on an Ivy flower
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Common mallow still one of the plants still in flower.
Lovely purple flowers with five large petals with white stripes and white centres. Mallow plant with five purple and white stripy flowers.
September 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Groundsel is one of the flowers that keep going over many months.
Groundsel plant in flower: petals emerge tightly packed from a green tube.
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Common cat’s ear, one has a little bee on it.
Yellow petalled flowers with lots of layers on tall thin stems, petals have toothed ends - common cat’s ear. Close up of the cat’s ear flower with a little bee on it.
September 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Black bindweed weaving through plants in a field.
Delicate trailing climbing stem with small pinkish flowers - black bindweed.
September 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Black nightshade growing in a field amid maize rows.
Mid green serrated leaves and small white flowers on black nightshade
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Water Smartweed, beautiful plant IMO.
Lovely pink plant with many flower let’s up the stem, and tiny red stamens sticking out. Water Smartweed. Another of the Water Smartweed, full plant, showing large leaves. Like dock leaves.
September 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Nodding Beggarticks, looking very lovely.
Flower heads, some have gone over, cushion like greenish/yellow centres surrounded by green leafy plant parts. Nodding Beggarticks.
September 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Not sure if these are the right sort of seed heads - redroot amaranth and Powell’s amaranth (reputedly)
Plant with long spike of clusters of seeds. Plant with long spikes of seeds, look a bit hairy.
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Rose hips for this week.
Red oval smaller fruits with long green end bits, rose hips.
August 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Crab apples, I think.
Reddish orange fruits on a tree, look like giant rose hips but think they are crab apples.
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Persian walnuts growing in large clusters, might be an abundant year.
Clusters of smooth round green oval fruits on a walnut tree.
August 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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European dewberry for this week.
Blackberry-like fruit with bigger drupes and a bluish bloom - European dewberry. Cluster of blackberry-like fruits with a bloom and bigger drupes - European dewberry.
August 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Reeds and view across the river.
Reeds and waterside plants next to the river, a house and trees are seen the other side. Pencil sketch.
August 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM