Friday, 26 August 2011

The plants and other wildlife of "lettuce land".

In the dusty margins of the fields, by the banks of the irrigation reservoir, alongside the blowsy hedgerows, and along the banks of the River Bourne a surprising amount of activity in and around the intensive cropping of lettuce can be found:

The first bit of colour was from the bright pink and white of the field bindweed:



and here is a Hawkbit, although not so commonly found here at the moment:



This Birds Foot trefoil on the other hand is widespread:




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