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A splendid thing, a complex and delicate structure held aloft by the thinnest of... (more)

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   plant:CocksfootX   Cocksfoot GrassX   Early SummerX   Flowering GrassesX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   subject:GreenX   top:LowlandsX   season:SummerX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

A grass flower with hanging anthers. These will turn pink with pollen any day... (more)

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Phalaris arundinacea luxuriates beside a drainage ditch in an otherwise dull... (more)

Tags: Grass in Flower   top:GrasslandX   top:LowlandsX   Mixed PlantationX   plant:PhalarisX   plant:Reed Canary-GrassX   top:Rivers, Streams, DrainageX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

The first grass flowers are beginning to show this year

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Backlit grass flowers in the late afternoon sun.

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Dangling anthers and stamens on a flowerhead of grass

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Tall grass stems all over the wood now.

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   Late SpringX   top:LowlandsX   season:SpringX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

The grass flowers such as TF0820 : The delicacy of tall grasses are already becoming heavy with seed formation.

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   Forestry Commission LandX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   Seed PodsX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

The delicacy of a grass head in the morning sunlight

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   subject:FlowerX   Forestry Commission PlantationX   plant:GrassX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   Mid SummerX   Morning SunlightX   season:SummerX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

At the side of TF0820 : Forest track in the morning.

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I am fascinated by these tall spindly rush-like plants that appear to flower half way up.

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   Early SummerX   Forestry Commission PlantationX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   subject:PlantX   season:SummerX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

I no longer cut the grass in my Orchard, bar a few paths. The idea is to help... (more)

Tags: Aircraft Vapour TrailsX   Back GardenX   place:BourneX   weather:Clear Blue SkyX   Early SummerX   type:GeographX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   subject:OrchardX   top:Suburb, Urban FringeX   season:SummerX  

I have been trying to take a decent photograph of grass flowers since they... (more)

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   Early SummerX   Forestry Commission PlantationX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   weather:RainX   season:SummerX   UndergrowthX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

A companion to TF0820 : Grass flower, and taken nearby in brighter conditions. This... (more)

Tags: place:Bourne WoodsX   type:Close LookX   Forestry Commission LandX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   subject:PlantX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

Common, or Smooth, Meadow Grass

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Grass stem taller than the fence. This is Timothy Grass. The plant is native... (more)

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Under the hedgerow at the edge of the grazing field, where the footpath is.

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Long grass where once was a mown lawn

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The pollen-rich anthers of Cocksfoot grass look spectacular.

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I love the delicate nature of grass seedheads. This is beside TF0820 : Forest track in the morning.

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The long grass in my Orchard has recovered somewhat from the battering the rain gave it.

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Tags: type:Close LookX   subject:GrassX   Grass in Flower   top:GrasslandX   plant:Meadow FoxtailX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX  

Stiff with long-stemmed species, like the Rose-bay Willow Herb, some Ragwort,... (more)

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Just after the local and long distance paths diverge (I am on the long distance... (more)

Tags: plant:DockX   top:Farm, Fishery, Market GardeningX   subject:FieldX   type:GeographX   Grass in Flower   top:LowlandsX   near:StamfordX   season:SummerX   plant:ThistleX   near:TinwellX   Water MeadowsX   top:Wild Animals, Plants and MushroomsX  

Backlit by the sun, this field is a riot of things to delight the bees.

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