Wood Sorrel -
Oxalis acetosella - has very attractive flowers that bear close examination. As you can see, the rain returned.
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The fertile shoots of Field Horsetail -
Equisetum arvense -
precede the familiar green growth by several weeks:
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Leaves have appeared on the more sheltered Hawthorn bushes:
The wood sorrel is absolutely beautiful. Brilliant work!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that wood sorrel fantastic - it's one of my favourite flowers, and I've been trying to get a good shot of it for about 4 years - I have nothing remotely as good as this - made by those raindrops. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThose horsetail spikes always look prehistoric to me - you half expect to see a dinosaur in shot - I've got the big one (E. telmateia) putting up its spikes just now.