Spring Flowers on Yarley Hill
Henton sits on the road between Wells and Wedmore. The village nestles below Yarley Hill on the edge of the valley on the River Axe in the heart of Somerset in England. Climbing up...
Category: Cowslips
Yarley Hill
A few years ago I often visited to this ash tree up on the hill above the village of Yarley in Somerset. Today, with a favourable weather forecast, I made a nostalgic trip to...
Cowslip Road
Shepton Mallet is often overshadowed by its more well known neighbours of Glastonbury and Wells. But earlier in the year it put on another fabulous display of snowdrops, and now it is the time...
Shepton’s Cowslips
I finally made it to Cannards Grave roundabout in Shepton Mallet. This town in the middle of Somerset in the UK has a roundabout that is famous for its concrete sheep. However, this roundabout...
Orchids and Cowslips at UpHill
Six o’clock in the morning, time for for a quick walk to photograph the flowers growing around the Uphill nature reserves in North Somerset. The sun had only just appeared above the horizon behind...
Cowslips in the Headlights
First, apologies for the long gap since my last post. I have a backlog of comments to look at, which is really bad – sorry. In the meantime at the start of the...
Cannards Grave
Jeff Body’s sheep that graze Cannards Grave roundabout at Shepton Mallet are rightly famous. But in a roundabout way, it’s becoming just as famous for its spring flowers. The Flowers The roundabout was covered in snowdrops early...
Ivythorn Hill
Ivythorn Hill near Street, in Somerset, is mostly visited by those using the local Youth Hostel or going to Collard Hill to find Large Blue Butterflies. But it is a wonderful strip of calcareous...
Cannards Grave
The story goes that Cannards Grave in Shepton Mallet is haunted by the ghost of Tom Kennard. He was hanged on the nearby gibbet for being caught with stolen sheep. Today the Cannards Grave roundabout is...
