Dorset Pink Poppy Fields 2022
This year I had decided not to bother photographing any Dorset pink poppy fields. Having taken photos of opium poppies...
Remembering D-Day 70 years on, Bournemouth Gardens – 6th June 2014
June 6, 2014
Sunrise and mist at a Dorset pink poppy field.
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It’s Dorset Red Poppy Field Time!
Are these the first Dorset field poppies of 2022? I was out and about today and chanced upon these Dorset red poppies,...
Dorset Henbane – Rare, Poisonous & Vulnerable
Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) has got to be one of the weirdest looking plants there is, certainly in this country. Not only that, it’s highly poisonous, smells sickly sweet and only flowers biennially (every two years). Once seen, never forgotten.
Abbey Hill Steam Rally, Yeovil, Dorset
Sunshine, steam and motorbikes… what’s not to like?!
Dorset’s Wild Orchids 2022
We are lucky in Dorset because we have what is possibly the best site for early spider-orchids in the UK. Ophrys sphegodes is also the first orchid to flower each year, heralding the start of the ‘orchid season.’ This year, I also found a woodcock orchid x Fly orchid hybrid, growing on a steep, Dorset hillside.
Barnsley Warren Pasqueflowers 2022
There are an estimated 20,000 pasqueflower plants (Pulsatilla vulgaris) growing at Barnsley Warren SSSI, in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.