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I have a love/hate relationship with the teasels in my garden. They make wonderful photographic subjects, but they are nasty prickly things if accidentally handled! If you look…
Heads of barley almost ready to cut. In contrast the wheat grown in the same field this year (2017) was cut in mid-July! I love the textures, and…
I went to see bluebells near Crieff, instead I found a vast swathe of wild garlic, and this wonderful woodland walk alongside the River Earn. Shutter speed: 1/100s Aperture: ƒ/5.6…
Despite the very attractive flowers, I never got any chillies from this plant! Shutter speed: 1/100s Aperture: ƒ/7.1 ISO: 1600 Focal length: 250mm Taken: 1 February, 2015 10:02 Camera: PENTAX K-5 II
Christmas day 2014 was beautiful, so I drive to Pitlochry and walked up past Black Spout waterfall to Eradour Distillery, across the fields to Moulin, back down to…
I love the shapes in the old seed heads of Cow Parsley. Shutter speed: 1/60s Aperture: ƒ/9 ISO: 3200 Focal length: 250mm Taken: 19 December, 2014 15:12 Camera: PENTAX K-5 II
This is some sort of root crop, possibly grown for animal feed, under fleece. There is nothing soft or fluffy about agricultural fleece, it’s very stout stuff! Shutter…
The gardens at Cragside are beautiful and when I visited had some plantings of succulents. I have no idea what species these are, but I love the subtle…
I brought and planted one cowslip (Primula veris) in my garden and to my delight it survived, prospered and self-seeded. It’s offspring continue to flower and self-seed every…
A few days later I went to Cambo, which has the National Snowdrop Collection. However what really caught my eye was this dwarf iris, which I believe is…