Or…mushrooms in the crooked wood
Feels, like a good Halloween one this – finding mushrooms in the deep, dark woods.
woodland
Foxglove
Foxglove season
Common name: foxglove
Scientific name: Digitalis purpurea
Flowering season: June – September
Rhododendron: Devil in Disguise?
Invasive rhododendron ponticum
It has such beautiful, large trusses of purple flowers showing in May-June each year, that it’s near impossible to miss this striking shrub. Rhododendron is a favourite in gardens throughout the UK, as it’s a relatively easy plant to grow, it’s an evergreen, is fairly low maintenance and makes great hedges. It can be bought in most garden centres.
When the Light Breaks Through
When the sun’s light breaks through at Thrunton
Competition for sunlight among trees leads to a remarkably consistent pattern of tree sizes in woodlands. And all sorts of animals and plants that live in the shade of trees are also reliant on the sun breaking through the canopy at some times in order for them to survive.
Golden-Ringed Dragonfly
Golden-ringed dragonfly: Hepburn Wood
Not in Beanley Wood this time but in Hepburn Wood, a Forestry England managed forest just a few miles east of Lilburn Tower. Out exercising again – and so much to see at this time of the year.
Beanley’s Wood
Beanley’s wood stacked
wood stack
log pile
logs
chunks
timber
lengths
In Beanley Wood
In Beanley Wood where I sat down
One day I sat in the wood…