Time was well spent by the River Cam this morning.
I could have aligned this short better, but I still like it as a sign of autumn coming:
This picture of yarrow, which most would think of as a weed, appeals to me:
As weeds go that is impressive, I think.
And the heron was the real subject of this shot, but the other side of the river forced me to frame its presence:
All taken at the Kingfisher Bridge reserve, for which I am very grateful as it so regularly provides me with a place to walk, think, restore myself and have a great coffee and cake.
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Beautiful. Thank you.
Nice. By comparison the Mersey as it passes through Stockport. https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighgbowden/49818781962/
Nice
I like yarrow. It’s good for both butterflies and moths to land on, and comes in different colours, not just white, although it’s the white I have in my garden.
Achillea, I think, so it is domesticated in a variety of colours.
The chocolate tiffin is particularly good.
Agreed
While I accept that the word ‘weed’ has some legitimacy in the context of private gardens (although I rather like the giant thistles that have grown in my little garden – they are home to various species of insect as well as having some visual appeal of their own) I do not consider it to have any validity in wild green spaces or nature reserves.
Fair conment – except I was talking about perception of a plant that does appear in gardens and is thought of as a weed when it does
I love Yarrow, one of my favourite flowers. There’s a growing native plant movement in UK horticulture (native plants are preferable because co-evolved inverterbrates generally prefer them as food source), which you can tell because of the reactionary horticultural outrage about “weeds in my garden” from the Telegraph et al. Rebecca McMackin wrote about it in her newsletter recently, highlight was Alan Titchmarsh being referred to as Garden Karen! https://www.natureworks.org.uk/blog/230815-woke-gardening/
Thanks
Canada geese too!
Indeed
It has been a very good year from them – and greylags. There are massess of them right now – more than I recall for some time.
Great! After a little identification, I realise that yarrow is the plant growing through a crack in front of my house. I’ve refrained from pulling it out as attracts the insects. I’ll try transferring the seeds to other places (I’m slowly trying to convert some of my ‘lawn’ to a wildflower meadow, with some success, so I’d love to have some yarrow in there).
I have left bits iof my garden to grow a bit wild.
One reward, discovered late last week, is that a hedgehog has had her young in the garden, and they loom to be doing well in a now overgrown but that provides them with cover.