With a few other pretties in, maybe.
You may recall how I have cursed the local council for their destructive foolishness on many occasions. One such is their mowing to death of the 3+ spp. of orchids along the St. Marychurch bypass; there's a narrow strip of verge nobody walks on, on a straight section with no junctions, which needs no mowing, so gets done to the mud [often literally] several times a Summer. Spring. Autumn.
I took a look along there, because driving by I'd noticed something sticking up. Turns out, these;
Common Broomrape
Compare to Ivy, from not too far away;
Note the 'nose cone'
[and impaled leaf!]
Common growing off Daisies, and Ivy growing off.. yup. While nationally, Ivy is far rarer, on Patch it's vice versa; these are the first Commons I've found!
I was despairing of finding any orchids, but once again, the Patch surprised me. Just.
Pyramidal Orchid
This is it. The Last of the Orchids.
Protected from the mad mowers by a tree. Yes, Pyramidal growing under - very close to, in fact - a tree.
While hunting for basal florettes, I met a few other things;
Hedge Woundwort
Common Storksbill
Hedgerow Cranesbill
Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Er....
[It looks really familiar, too]
Common Chickweed
BLEEPing council...
BLEEEEPing council!
Freshly-cut trees and privatised loos. Welcome to the riviera, folks.....
The Deceiver.
Always.
Seems appropriate.
[Oh, and we have a 'progressive' party in charge, folks. Even the tories never dared privatise the WCs...]
Be Seeing You...
[Hopefully in a better mood]
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