Additional photos from our walk on 31st August 2026. Most often I’ll group the photos ‘logically’ but today I’ve left them in the order they came off my camera – i.e. in the order encountered. Enjoy…

31st August 2026

🔼 Stinging Nettles in flower. Just so you can appreciate the difference between these flowers and those of Dead Nettles, which look more like mint (see below) 🔽 Guilder Rose. Poisonous

31st August 2026

31st August 2026

🔼 Hemp Agrimony, so named for the similarity of foliage 🔽 Hops, entangled with brambles and beech leaves

31st August 2026

🔽 Water Mint. And bee.

31st August 2026

31st August 2026

🔼 Black Bryony. I’m more used to seeing this after the vines have lost their leaves 🔽 Gemstones and gold! But poisonous…

31st August 2026

🔽 And silver, too – but only because of the overnight rain that the Fern’s leaves still hold

31st August 2026

31st August 2026

Here’s two fruits that aren’t poisonous, both much used in Vitamin C drinks 🔼 Elderberries 🔽 Rose Hips

31st August 2026

31st August 2026

Sometimes the berries aren’t easily seen 🔼 More Black Bryony 🔽 White Bryony, still in flower, draped over a Hawthorn hedge

31st August 2026

31st August 2026

From hedgerow to somewhat closer to the ground 🔼 Yay, fungus. The season has truly begun 🔽 Selfheal, surviving right in the middle of Weavers’ Way, despite a summer-full of feet passing by

31st August 2026

Flowers and berries 🔽 Last of the Great Willow Herb, not quite the first of the Blackberries

31st August 2026

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed. Don’t forget to check out Friday Flyers cos, yay, we have dragons and damsels!!!!