Spotting wildflowers out walking

Wildflowers and health walks

I try and walk for my health every day. I only do about half an hour but it seems to be enough. Sometimes I do a bit of mindfulness at the same time.

Most times I follow the same route past the cemetery heading out of Seaford, through a lime walk and towards the fields.

I’m not a botanist – if it’s not flowering I’m afraid I’m not interested!

January – February – March Wildflowers

For the first part of the year I was struggling with using a rubbish LG phone to take pics (my DSLR is a bit bulky to take on a health walk in my opinion).

Violet

Speedwell

I’m a sucker for a daisy as it’s the name of my dried flowers shop

Winter heliotrope

April Flowers

By this time I was starting to get quite irritated with my phone camera, so the quality is even more patchy.

Alkanet coming in to flower

Herb robert

Lamium – dead-nettle

Alexanders

Honesty – where I live this is more likely to be a garden escapee I guess

May – June Blooms

The first image shows I was resorting to applying digital filters to my pics to try and get a decent image. Then after that I bought an Honor which has a fantastic camera except it renders scarlet as crimson (see second image)

Real bluebells

Field poppy outside the cemetery – shame the colour didn’t come out quite right

Alkanet now in full bloom

Buttercup with reflexed sepals

Oxeye daisy

Cow parsley

Geranium molle – Dove’s foot cranesbill

The lime trees in flower

Elderflower ready to pick

Growing in July

The flowers I was spotting in July seemed to be the old thugs which don’t succumb to a spot of drought.

Bindweed with bramble and nettle

Yellow ragwort and purple buddleia on some waste ground

More buddleia

August wildflowers and berries

Blackberry fruit

Old man’s beard in flower

Lords and ladies – shame the colour wasn’t quite right again

Elderberries

Mature ivy coming into flower

September seed heads

Old man’s beard now in seed

October – November – December

The Holly and the Ivy – it’s surprising how often I spot these together. The ivy berries are just starting to form

Field mushrooms and fallen leaves

Related posts:
Elderflower
Cow parsley
Winter heliotrope