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I love this little hawthorn below Ingra Tor, its roots are covered in lichen and it always looks like a witch petrified in a tree …taken on Wednesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #witchtree
low view of a small hawthorn tree on moorland.
#photography #Devon #dartmoor #witchtree

Pictures taken this week near Whitchurch Down, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography
Willows by a stream
Orange Rowan berries
Hello bird’s foot trefoil wild flower
Willow trees
#photography #Devon #dartmoor

#BloomScrolling #Gardening #Devon

I'm really enjoying the high purpleness in the garden, with oodles of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and abundant second flowering of Wisteria, complimented by the deep pinkiness of Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination'. In there somewhere is also self-seeded Purple Toadflax. All a magnet for pollinators. I'm relishing them while I can, as they may not last in this heatwave.

P.S. This is a tiny garden, so plants like this have a real impact.

Part of a garden with numerous plants, most of the image taken up by three in particular. On the left is a tall plant with whorls of green leaves topped by spikes of dark pink flowers. On the right is another tall plant with darker green leaves and spikes of purple flowers. Across the back of the image is a climbing plant with lots of dangling purple flowers. In the foreground are several other small plants, one of which has a spike of orange flowers. A fern is just coming into the frame from the left.
#gardening #Devon #bloomscrolling

Saddle bridge near Combestone tor, a couple of summers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #mosstodon
willow tree hangs over a bridge and a stream
#photography #Mosstodon #Devon #dartmoor

A beautiful walk today along the South West Coast Path from Bovisand eastward.

For #WildFlowerWednesday here's some favourites:

Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) with Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) also commonly known as Hogweed Bonking Beetle

Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) seed head shining golden in the sun

Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) as fragrant as ever

Wild Thyme (Thymus praecox) fragrant *and* sumptuous colours

#BloomScrolling #SWCoastPath #Devon

A close-up of a white-flowered plant with many separate heads composed of individuals flowers with petals of uneven lengths. The heads are held on slim green stems. On two of the heads are three red and black insects, one on its own and the other two mating.
A close-up of a seed head with fluffy ends, rather like a dandelion. The fluffy parts are white while the stems holding them are a yellowy colour. The seeds themselves are not visible. In the background are out-of-focus green leaves.
A hedge of shiny green leaves with protruding flowers coloured yellow, pink and white. Each flower has whorled heads of trumpet-shaped corollas with two lips, one curved up and the other curved down, and stamens protruding. Above the hedge is a glimpse of the a bright blue sky.
A carpet of tiny pinkish-purple flowers, paler at the throat, against dark-green foliage. Each flower has four petals. Below are stones on the path, next to which the plant is growing. Other green vegetation is interspersed.
#Devon #bloomscrolling #wildflowerwednesday #swcoastpath

Spot the wheatear (bird), in this wall near Ingra Tor last Summer, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography.
A stone wall with a camouflaged young wheatear on.
#photography #Devon #dartmoor

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