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To Bishopstone and back 2.8.2021


Folder: The natural world
Joining ipernity groups can lead to a sort of obsessive mania for snapping away for photos to contribute to the groups. This walk through the fields between East Blatchington, where I live and Bishopstone, the picturesque village over the hill, and back along the main Sussex coastal road, the A259, has provided material for two new groups. One focusses on grasses, sedges, reeds etc. and the other …  (read more)

18 Emerging oats

19 Oats in the open

20 Feathered heads

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Dactylis glomerata

21 Feathered heads up close

22 Stand alone seed head

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I haven't had time to look up all the plants and I haven't got a quick reference book for grasses, grains, etc.. Sarah Raven's huge volume 'Wild Flowers' is brilliantly indexed with indices for Common Names, Latin botanical names and best of all thumbnails listed by the colour of the flowers. But it is about wild flowers not grasses etc.

23 Tall against the wall

25 White Campion

26 Speckled Wood on a nettle

27 Bishopstone Pond

28 Beside Bishopstone Pond

29 Bishopstone primeval pond

30 A patchwork of plants

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Kentucky bluegrass

31 Broad-leafed Dock

32 Curled Dock

33 Cow Parsley

34 Small Heath on a Blackberry flower

35 Gatekeeper on the reverse of a Blackberry leaf

36 Vervain and clover Bishopstone 2 8 2021


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