Meadow Brown

..on Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)

Got up early and did some tidying in the garden before it got too hot.  This, of course, is really when I should have been taking the camera out, but for some mad reason I decided to do that later.

I blipped this up in the West Hill Cemetery, which is now being managed as a small in-city wildlife site.  Very pretty it is too!

And.. had the oddest experience coming back home, which I'm sure some of you will have shared.  When I went to get cheese and milk the supermarket was empty - I mean empty!  And although there were quite a few people in the High Street and on the bus, they were all women.  Except, that is, for the bus driver, but he said he didn't mind, being a rugby man himself.

Can't guess where the guys were (and quite a few of the girls too).  No, okay, I won't say anything else on the subject..

Happy Saturday evening to you all  xx

A list of my blipped 2018 wildflowers to date:

JANUARY
Snowdrops
FEBRUARY
Gorse (or furze);  Wild daffodils
MARCH
Coltsfoot;  Primroses;  Blackthorn
APRIL
Greater periwinkle;  Goat willow;  Ground ivy;  Cowslips;  Daisy;
Common field speedwell;  Wood anemone;  Greater celandine
MAY
Cuckoo flower (or lady’s smock);  Yellow archangel;  Common dog violet;
Crab apple;  Bluebell;  Red clover;  Germander speedwell;
Three-cornered leek;  Hawthorn;  Yellow flag; Dandelion;  Common vetch; Dog rose;  Green alkanet;
JUNE
Bramble;  Stinking iris;  Dropwort;  Meadow buttercup; Sweet briar;  Red campion;  Butterfly orchid;  Poppies;  Nettle;  Birdsfoot trefoil;  Meadow cranesbill;  Sainfoin; 
JULY
Musk mallow;  Field Scabious;