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Plants Page 58

Image Taken on 13 Mar 2024 at 13:33 Image of day on 08 Apr 2024

In the early afternoon hazy sunshine what is probably a Reeves' Muntjac Deer mother and her now well grown Fawn browsing quietly together by the filled-to-the-brim Duck Pond.

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Image Taken on 11 Mar 2019 at 07:03 Image of day on 09 Apr 2019

Norway Spruce is what is known as a 'Christmas Tree' in the UK. Planted soon after we arrived it now produces masses of fir cones we collect up and put out for the animals.

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Image Taken on 29 Oct 2006 at 12:45 Image of day on 03 Nov 2006

An oak twig with leaves all the way from green to dried out.

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Image Taken on 17 Dec 2006 at 11:18 Image of day on 29 Dec 2006

A slight frost on this damp autumn oak leaf left it sparkling.

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Image of day on 26 Nov 2005

Another from the unusually frosty November morning - this time an oak leaf.

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Image Taken on 18 Nov 2018 at 12:10 Image of day on 05 Jan 2019

This scattering of (rather small) Oak leaves creates the impression that the tree had tossed a Jigsaw puzzle on the ground.

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Image Taken on 17 Apr 2024 at 16:37 Image of day on 17 May 2024

We have never really thought about how Oak trees 'get together' to make Acorns. It seems that trees carry both male flowers, the bulk of the items here, and much smaller and separated female flowers.

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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2021 at 10:41 Image of day on 27 Jul 2021

In one of the oak trees on the sunny side of the meadow has several patches of leaves at the end of branches going brown and yellow. It too high to see if it is infestation or damage of some kind.

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Image of day on 03 Jul 2005

Discovered that this (what we believe is) Oat Grass drops blackish pollen all over your clothes as you push by it. The only way to see it in a photo is against the sky.

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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2024 at 09:18 Image of day on 09 May 2024

This year the grass outside the farm entrance got skipped during the first mowing, so it has retained its flowering plants. The Red of these opening daisies seemed very striking

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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2024 at 09:18 Image of day on 09 May 2024

A more detailed crop of the closed Daisy flower.

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Image Taken on 18 Jun 2015 at 12:38 Image of day on 21 Aug 2015

This small (typically 2cm across flowers) add sparks of fire to the shingle area outside the front door and around the side gate

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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2014 at 10:41 Image of day on 25 Aug 2014

We have seen this flower for the last couple of years, and the stunning colour is not exaggerated. It's most common name seems to be Fox-and-Cubs (related to fur colours?) but it is also know as 'Orange Hawkweed' which for us fits the plant much better. These flowers are about 2.5cm (1 inch) diameter.

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Image Taken on 29 May 2008 at 12:08 Image of day on 02 Jun 2008

This is an orange-tip butterfly - the female has no orange tip but the beautiful green and white mottled underwing is the giveaway. Haven't seen a male for a week or two.

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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2021 at 11:31 Image of day on 25 Jun 2021

Another flyby by this male Orange-tip butterfly shows you the underside of the insect including the intricate green lacework that provides disguise (on both sexes) when the wings are closed.

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Image Taken on 11 May 2009 at 13:49 Image of day on 03 Jun 2009

Wow - an orange tip actually stopped flying long enough to get a pic 'in the field'!

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Image Taken on 16 May 2016 at 10:36 Image of day on 25 Jun 2016

A male Orange Tip butterfly perched on some fresh Blackberry leaves.

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Image Taken on 02 May 2017 at 12:28 Image of day on 21 Jun 2017

This is a female Orange-tip Butterfly, showing the same green tracery on the underside of the rear wings, but never a trace of the orange.
Just what the 'Boys' are looking for!

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Image Taken on 19 May 2023 at 13:02 Image of day on 07 Jul 2023

At last we get to see a female Orange-tip Butterfly, here on the right of the male. They share the wonderful intricate green tracery on the underside of the wing.

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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2020 at 12:52 Image of day on 01 May 2020

2 days later presumably a different couple of Orange-tip Butterfly 'getting to know each other'.

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