Gently down the stream

By Miranda1008

Late summer pick

Today it's been drizzling most of the day and horribly grey.  I didn't feel entirely inspired to do an outdoor shot, so instead, when Hazel and I had taken the bottles down to the bottle bank and had a scamper round the park we came back via the stream and I picked a few of the commoner late summer berries and flowers.  Ones I though nature would forgive me for.  This pic is of them in a jug on the kitchen windowsill.

And if you think it's also a way of padding out my wildflower list quite nicely you would be right, though I hadn't originally thought of it like that.

So, seeds and berries:
Rowan (sorbus aucuparia, the orange ones), guelder rose viburnum opulus (the red ones), bramble (Rubus fruticosus the black ones), common sorrel (Rumex acetosa the rusty streak on the right), cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris, I think, though I'm not good at ID-ing from seeds, brown on the left), crab apples (Malus sylvestris at the base of the jug)
then flowers:
buddleia (pink on left, not mentioned in my field guide so presumably a garden escape but grows wild all over Hampshire), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria pink at top), Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera pink at top and on right), and lastly the white trumpet of hedge bindweed Calystegia sepium.
There is also some forget-me-not in there but it's hiding itself so I'm not counting it.

We are now into the tenth WildflowerWeek, which will run until Saturday.  Don't forget to tag your entries #WFW10.  Thank you :)
Hearts for WFW09 will be announced on Wednesday..
Hope you've had a fab weekend and that the beginning of the week goes well for you  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; Ragwort;  Rosebay willowherb; purple loosestrife; teasel;  meadowsweet; yellowloosestrife;  Great willowherb;
AUGUST
Water mint; marjoram;  spear thistle;  rowan;  guelder rose;  cow parsley;  common sorrel;  buddleia; Himalayan balsam;  hedge bindweed; crab apple;

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