Vegetative State

Another rainy day. So with no new invert news, here's a vegetative interlude.

First up some more garden weeds wildflowers ....

Procumbent Pearlwort growing on the edges of the front driveway

Shepherd's Purse growing on the kerbside

Creeping Buttercup - all over the garden waiting to flower be pulled/mowed

Daisy - a few always manage to evade the whirring blade

A Dandelion sp. - a few in the borders

Hert Robert now flowering

Also flowering, I noticed that on the embankment there are a few straggly sallows starting to show themselves - would be good if these manage to outgrow the brambles, dogwood and others.

And the rest are cultivated, after a fashion.

We planted this Oak from an acorn a number of years ago, and it's just coming into leaf. It was nurtured in a pot to try and limit it a bit bonsai style, and it gets pruned, though the pot itself was then semi-planted so the roots are probably broken through the pot by now. Either way it's never going to be a multi-hundred year old veteran!

Red Valerian - I nicked an errant plant from one of the neighbours gardens when the house was vacated, and we now have a load self-set/spreading on the front garden.

We have a variegated shrub on the front which has these nice but pretty well hidden flowers. Managed to find a label on it saying it's a Pittosporum tenuifolium [Irene Paterson].

Some sort of cultivated bluebell from bulbs planted last autumn