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Another spring, and despite the “smog” took a set of photys around the top of the hill. Comparing them with those from last year (about a fortnights difference), the same plants are out but there might be a bit of cross over with the primroses still in flower.
After ten years I have finally caught the fabled Duke of Argyle’s Teaplant, the winter conditions and the warm dry spring must have prompted it into flower. Or I have just wandered past it for all those years? Nahh!
The number of orange tailed bumblebees took me by surprise too. At first I was sure that only one was following me around till I came to the whins – there were more than a dozen of them! but would they sit still for me, of course not.
I have included the sign describing the castle, click on it for a large, readable version.
And here is the song Another Spring performed by Nina Simone… enjoy
I have to admit that last years photys were brighter and more colourful. Sunnier day, or sunnier photygraffer?
- Duke of Argyll’s Teaplant
- light colourd lilacs
- may blossom (hawthorn)
- dark orange wallflower
- sinister ivy flowering
- fern furl
- annoyed Orange Tailed bumblebee
- english bluebells
- primrose, goosegrass (stickywullie), red deadnettle
- Halton Castle sign, click to read
- buttercup
- dandylion
…one early morning. Not so early and with my coffee and biscuit in one hand and wee camera in the other, and I even had to nip home for a new card and batteries. So please enjoy my hour and a half wander round Castle Hill.
- whins (gorse)…mmm that coconut scent
- broom with their little bean pod shapes
- may blossom (hawthorn) cast yer cloots if you wish!
- lilacs, unlucky to have in the house?
- field of baby ferns emerging from their dead
- english bluebells drooping grcefully behind a wall
- fern skeleton and new hawthorn blossom, old meets new
- a huge and slightly annoyed bumble bee
- buttercups from my front door – yes it’s meant to be a patch of “weeds”!
- wild turnip, …really?
- baby oak leaves unfurling and looking a soft and shiny
