Bluebells in the woods
Submitted by nicki.dyas on Wed, 29/04/2020 - 13:29
The bluebells are looking lovely under the trees at the moment, with the white flowers of stitchwort often seen dotted in-between.
The bluebells are looking lovely under the trees at the moment, with the white flowers of stitchwort often seen dotted in-between.
The showy blackthorn are in full flower at the moment promising a good crop of sloes later in the year!
And the tiny bilberry flowers are covering bushes all over the place.
The delicate dog violets are carpeting banks at the moment. They're a good ancient woodland indicator as well as crucial food source for several threatened fritillary butterfly species.
Beautiful carpets of wood anemones in Cotton Dell are good indicators of an ancient woodland site. They spread only about 6 feet in a hundred years so these patches have been around for a long time!
Flowers are covering some gorse bushes at the moment making them glow in the sunshine. I saw these ones in the valley along the river from East Wall Farm near Oakamoor.
