The honeysuckle is in flower.
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The year’s best common spotted orchid, photographed last week by Ian Bushell.
Honey bee
A honey bee foraging for nectar and pollen among the flowers of hogweed.
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Barbarea vulgaris also called bittercress, herb barbara, rocketcress, yellow rocketcress, winter rocket, and wound rocket
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Ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) growing next to the little tributary stream, between the Decorated Bridge and the Dog Pond.
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Our fields are beautiful at the moment: full of yellow buttercups.
The park’s yellow iris are in flower, always worth a visit.
Ground Ivy
This is ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea), a little blue flower so common as to be almost invisible. It grows all over the park and flowers at any time of the year.
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Red campion (Silene dioica)
The park’s red campion grows up through tall vegetation at the edges of the fields and beneath the hedges. If you find it, take photographs and send them to us, please.
