Tag Archives: British Flora

Sunday Picture Post: Painted Pink

Posted on June 23, 2019 by crispina kemp

How to theme a post which features photos of flowers as delicate and rare as an orchid, and as common and tough as hogweed. By colour, of course. So here you are: And the reason there is only one is … Continue reading →

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Roses that Follow the Rule …

Posted on June 22, 2019 by crispina kemp

The Rule of Three, that is. The white field rose blossoms a few weeks later than the more commonly-seen pink dog rose. Here, three friendly pollinators do their job, oblivious to the camera that captures them at their chores. For … Continue reading →

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Friday Fauna: The Painted Lady

Posted on June 21, 2019 by crispina kemp

Poised, ready for flight, this Painted Lady butterfly frequents hogweed, which on Monday’s walk we found in abundance. So, too, the butterflies. And this one obliged by holding still.

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Sunday Picture Post: Big and Bold

Posted on June 16, 2019 by crispina kemp

Some wild flowers shout of their presence from a great distance. Alas, this has been a week of almost continual rain. So the camera stayed in. These were taken the previous week

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The Yellow Flag

Posted on June 15, 2019 by crispina kemp

I look at the list of titles Maria has given me for the #2019picoftheweek challenge. Which to use this week? Pick a Colour Though, is the colour green? Of which there are many shades here. Or is it yellow? You … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Briar Rose and Elder Flower

Posted on June 9, 2019 by crispina kemp

Two flowering bushes of the byways … Nothing to do with dogs, of course. Dog, here, means common. Yet how can such a delicate beauty be called common?

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Of Oak Apples and Kings

Posted on May 29, 2019 by crispina kemp

A couple of weeks back (11th May), in answer to MariaAntonia’s #picoftheweek challenge, I featured an oak gall (The Very Gall). An oak gall is also known—incorrectly—as an oak apple. These are oak apples. It’s the gall’s immature form—the newly … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Honeysuckle

Posted on May 19, 2019 by crispina kemp

Woodbine, aka Honeysuckle aka Lonicera periclymenum opens its flowers … and I couldn’t decide which shot to use. All photos taken 16th May 2019    

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Sunday Picture Post: By Hedge and Bank

Posted on May 12, 2019 by crispina kemp

Last Friday’s walk yielded lots of photos of wayside plants. Which to feature is the problem. In times of yore hedges were ‘laid’ … i.e. cut in such a way as to encourage new growth which then would weave a … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Lords and Ladies

Posted on May 5, 2019 by crispina kemp

And I’ll leave it to you to figure out why this lover of the dark-ways gathered to itself such a cryptic name.

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