Great Mullien

I first took a pic of this species around 25 years ago. A very distant shot on slide that turned out to be not very good.

Saw 6 or 7 plants growing on a border in Kingston and kept a careful watch then - at last they blossomed. I shall try to get some seed and plant them in my gravel patch. I don't know how long the flowers will last but they are very pretty.

Love-in-a-mist

Found there are four different colour flowers in my mixed seed set. They came up well from last years self seeded plants.

Most of the other stuff except the "Green Manure" seems to have lost itself..

Grass snake  

Going down to Kingston Seymour saw this unfortunate snake on the road. Why do drivers like to kill things with their car wheels?
Grass snakes do no harm to people but, some folk like to kill anything they can with careless driving, hedgehogs for eample. Hedgehogs are now rarely seen in Clevedon, I reckon because people are slaves to garden styles and have  left no cover for them in the garden. The same thing with birds, bushes are "out" patios are "in". Consequence is, no thrushes or blackbirds nesting places and no birdsong in the early morning. . 

Variegated rose

My variegated rose has lasted through another winter. Pushed through the honeysuckle and is blooming again. Not bad for a 99p plant from Lidl's it adds a touch of colour to the greens on the vine and honeysuckle.

Yellow iris Iris pseudocorus

Stopped on the way through Ham Lane to take pix of these flowers.

Not often you see 'Flags' encouraged to grow nowadays. Too many machines engaged in ditching and keeching they get so they ripped out.

Ash trees in Cleeve Toot quarry

Drove Martin out to a garage in Wrington. Stopped at Cleeve Toot on the way.

Amazing how something so soft as an ash tree rootlet can squeeze into a crack and then expand to split the stones.  

Durbin's Myrtle Cottage in Old Street - circa 1880's?

WOW ! !. what a beauty.
Message from Jane where is it? Confusing because it has the edge of one of the Cottle's Cottages that were built sideways on to the road. This stretch was called Union Street in the early census. Originally Joseph Gurney's shop in 1832 with Candy and Vicarage's Union House diagonally opposite. By the time I saw the Emails Jane had sorted where it was. What a shame that Rose Cottage around the corner has never had a picture turn up so far.