Havyatt
On my commute today I stopped at the small hamlet of Havyatt near Glastonbury. I wanted to photograph a small orchard which I had passed several times when cycling to work without my camera....
Monthly Archive: May 2015
Sonny’s Acres
Sonny’s Acres are a group of small fields next to the village of Wookey in Somerset, England. Today my plan was to stop here on my daily commute and photograph the spring flowers. So I was up...
Ridge Road Flowers
This is another post as part of my new Daily Commute project. The Ridge Road is a fast short cut I make on my commute to work. I hope those who share this rat run take time...
Uphill
Today I had a day trip to Uphill on the North Somerset coast. Just south of the village is a large hill made from carboniferous limestone. This supports extensive species-rich calcareous grassland meadows. Today these are full or...
Temple Lane Meadows
Temple Lane leads east from the village of Templecombe. It lies on the Somerset-Dorset border and along it length are a series of damp meadows full of buttercups.
Early Purple Orchids
The last couple of posts have focused on the Wild Garlic displays at Longwood and Round Wood in Somerset. Both these sites also put on an excellent display of Early Purple Orchids (Orchis macula)....
Longwood
The Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve of Longwood in the Mendip Hills is one of the best woods in Britain. It is famous for its Bluebells, but Wild Garlic (Allium ursine) is just as beautiful. Each...
Round Wood
Round Wood near Wells is one of the best locations in Somerset to find a carpet of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum). Each spring these white flowers cover the slopes of the woodland floor looking like a...
Green Ore Yellow Gold
Recently I have been looking out for fields of Oilseed Rape across Somerset. Today it was the turn of the hamlet Green Ore on the top of the Mendip Hills. Green Ore is turning...
