Monday 20 April 2020

Early purple orchids: Lockdown 28

The early purple orchids are just beginning to make an appearance in the hedgerows around us...the light was wonderful - everything looks so vibrant and fresh.


Red campion and gorse - a colourful combination...

Light through leaves.

Wild garlic.

The common arum is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast.

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