Peter Castell's photos

Pink Things

29 May 2022 14 10 102
Pink Things Polygonum Knotweed

More Turbines

24 May 2022 12 5 89
More Turbines Not as rural as Isabel's what you don't see is the very busy A50 road, a developer wants to put a 140 acre trading estate on the fields, at some time a short distance away will be 76 million ton granite quarry

Royal Mail

21 May 2022 19 13 157
Royal Mail Ready for the Jubilee

Echinopsis 'Lilac Beauty'

17 May 2022 15 16 189
Echinopsis 'Lilac Beauty'

Tentacles

ICM

09 May 2022 10 5 147
ICM the first time I have tried it, I don't have a neutral density filter so the exposure length was quite short I had to start moving the camera first

Invaders

09 May 2022 16 9 141
Invaders, the Spanish Bluebell H. hispanica is considered an invader in the UK it was imported and probably escaped from a garden it is larger and grows faster that our native bluebell it also cross pollenates so the true English ones are being lost, most of those in my garden look mixed that one looks pure Spanish. Ideally I should spray and dig out all of them then buy some pure English ones

Glow Worm

Hough Mill

I'm not listening

23 Apr 2022 11 12 142
I'm not listening

Just the remains of an old tree in a field

16 Apr 2022 12 8 153
Just the remains of an old tree in a field

But look closer

16 Apr 2022 12 8 122
But look closer It may be worth trying large

Mechanical Masterpiece

11 Apr 2022 8 7 115
Mechanical Masterpiece

Tillandsia argentea

12 Apr 2022 16 14 142
Tillandsia argentea It might be worth trying large

Old and New

Dew Point

National Trust

26 Mar 2022 10 9 115
National Trust There is Ash Dieback so Health and Safety has gone into overdrive although dead or alive they would probably stand for years quite safely. the NT seem to have developed a passion for felling trees they also like clearing either side of a narrow path and calling it a ride

Here comes the sun

22 Mar 2022 17 13 147
Here comes the sun

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