Beetles beside Loch Lochy today.

Pale-pink flower-clusters of Cuckoo-flower.

Pink flowers and pink-tinged foliage of Red Dead-nettle.

The familiar yellow flowers and serrated leaves of Dandelion....

... and a road verge full of the stuff.

... and a few from Port Glasgow.

The cluster of white flowers of Garlic Mustard surrounded by it's red-tinged, jagged-edged leaves.

The pink, bottle brush-like inflorescence of Common Butterbur.

The intense cerise flowers of Salmonberry.

The leafless, bract-covered stems and composite, golden-yellow flowers of Coltsfoot.

Some flowering plants in Lunderston Bay, Inverclyde today....

...however a Comma butterfly nearby (my first in Scotland) was a more positive example of species expansion.

The Cherry blossom on the Meadows in Edinburgh was more or less at its peak when I visited yesterday.

I checked another site (beside the Water of Leith in Slateford, Edinburgh) yesterday but I found the area totally covered in Few-flowered Leek. Not sure the tiny Moschatel can survive.

Moschatel - not an easy plant to find in the Glasgow area in my experience. Therefore great to find these in Capelrig Glen, Newton Mearns today.

Some woodland flowers from the weekend: Few-flowered Leek; Ramsons; Bluebell; Wood anemone. Kelvingrove Park and Linn Park.

I have now found Snake's-head Fritillary flowering at five sites around Glasgow in the past two weeks. All deliberately introduced, I'm sure, but apparently persisting with little or no active cultivation.

A montage of sixteen photographs of single daffodil flowers, eight with yellow coronas and either yellow or orange trumpets and eight with white coronas and either yellow, cream, orange or white trumpets.

With the Daffodil season nearly over, I took the opportunity of a short trip to Gowanbank, East Ayrshire to capture just some of the variety still on show...

Both images show hedges made up entirely of bamboo plants, roughly trimmed to chest height.

... I also came across two bamboo hedges. I didn't know there was such a thing!

A collage of colourful flowers - most of them garden escapes including Flowering Currant (pink), Grape Hyacinth (blue), Lesser Celandine (yellow), Darwin's Barberry (orange), Japanese Kerria (golden), Honesty (fuchia), Boissier's Glory-of-the-snow (white), Fritillary (plum) and Marsh Marigold (yellow).

Having come back to Glasgow overnight, I got a surprise today at how much more colour there is around Queen's Park and Strathbungo....

The characteristic, bell-shaped, purple and pink checked flower of Fritillary.

A few flowers were fully open when I checked today...

Also in Queen's Park today, the buds of a couple of Pear trees are beginning to burst. A great excuse to enjoy again the lovely 'crocodile-skin' bark of these old trees.

The flowers of the Snake's head Fritillaries in Queen's Park, Glasgow are just on the point of opening. They are in a little glade that was created as a memorial to adopted southsider Moira Jones.

Flowering plants from RSPB Loch Leven and LNR Hogganfield Loch: Lungwort, Winter Aconite, Daffodil and Marsh Marigold.

Meant to say, all photographed in Lochwinnoch, where I was mainly counting Rooks' nests in the rain.

Today's spring colour came in the form of Elfcups (possibly Scarlet) and flowers of Barren Strawberry, Snowdrop and Abraham-Isaac-Jacob.

A hanging bunch of deep pink flowers of a Cherry (or similar) tree, each with a deeper pink base and multiple anthers projecting from within.

A small, purple-flowered plant (an Anemone species) with a brown stem and a basal whorl of divided green leaves, emerging from the dead leaves on the woodland floor.

The small yellow flower of Lesser Celandine with a cluster of yellow anthers in its centre.

A second Squill species (or cultivar) with a lilac, star-shaped flower with a white centre.

.... and the rest (2/2).

Deep blue, long-petalled flowers of a Squill species borne on long, black stems.

A yellow, dandelion-like flower of Coltsfoot borne on a bare stem with no leaves but covered in olive green, scale-like bracts.

A delicate, white flower of Blackthorn with its five oval petals, green sepals pushing through between them and a jumble of many long, white, yellow-tipped anthers projecting from its centre.

The familiar yellow flower-head of a Dandelion species against a background of dead leaves and green ivy.

Everyday there seems to be a little more colour around southwest Glasgow. Here are some of today's finds (1/2).

Spring Starflower, Anemone sp., Dandelion agg., Danish Scurvey-grass, Common Snowdrop, Coltsfoot, Primrose, Common Daisy and Purple-leaved Cherry Plum (2/2).

A montage of white, yellow, blue and pink flowers (nine in total). Names in next message.

Some of the plants I found in flower in Queen's Park, Crosshill, Govanhill and the Gorbals today (1/2).

... and the last four. They are Euphorbia, Lungwort, Lenten Rose, Common Chickweed, dandelion agg., Cherry Plum, Common Snowdrop, Lesser Celandine, two Daffodil cultivars, flowering Quince and Blackthorn (3/3).

... and a few more... (2/3)...

Some plants in flower in Pollokshaws from the past few days...(1/3)...

Still not seen my first Coltsfoot - but found two Lesser Celandines in flower today.

The two greyish-brown heads of a pair of frogs only just breaking the surface of a pond, surrounded by Iris shoots and already-deposited spawn.

A similar photograph but taken from behind the pair.

A few pairs of Common Frogs were spawning in the nature pond in Queen's Park, Glasgow today, trying to stay under the radar of any Grey Heron, Magpie or other, would-be predator.

Perfect timing. The crocuses and Snowdrops have been in charge in Glasgow for weeks now, but the Daffodils are on the very point of taking over.

View over rough grass and gorse bushes to the southern suburbs of Edinburgh with Edinburgh Castle standing out in the middle distance and the coastline of Fife beyond the River Forth in the background.

Oh, and here's the view from up there - an amazing reward for a fairly short climb.

A montage of colourful spring flowers consisting of Sping Crocus (purple), Winter Aconite (yellow), White Crocus (white), Giant Butterbur (pale green), Common Snowdrop (white) and Gorse (yellow).

Crocuses and Snowdrops continued to provide the main botanical interest during a walk in the Braid Hills, Edinburgh today. However Winter Aconite and Giant Butterbur were welcome additions.