THE BERRIES of Wild Arum, or Cuckoo Pint, are beginning to turn orange at the shady edge of the stream in the wood. Rowan berries are also turning colour but Elderberries are still small, hard and green. Where they get the sun, the first Blackberries are beginning to ripen.
A Pine has small purple cones at the tips of its branches. Further back along the branch, last years cones, which have yet to ripen, still have the small bristles that cover the younger cones. Between the two small cones resin has formed a glistening drop which is as sticky as glue.
On a grey-brick railway bridge a hanging garden has sprung up. Growing from the mortar a couple of courses down are Rosebay Willowherb, Tansy and a fine grass, which I think is a Bent-grass.
A Pine has small purple cones at the tips of its branches. Further back along the branch, last years cones, which have yet to ripen, still have the small bristles that cover the younger cones. Between the two small cones resin has formed a glistening drop which is as sticky as glue.
On a grey-brick railway bridge a hanging garden has sprung up. Growing from the mortar a couple of courses down are Rosebay Willowherb, Tansy and a fine grass, which I think is a Bent-grass.