Fine old species rich hedge on Folly Lane; Sloes so ripe as to actually be tasty.

Love finding Robin's Pincushion - thanks to childhood fascination sparked by Cicely Mary Barker's Autumn Flower Fairies.

Never tire of Traveller's Joy as a picture frame.

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At Manston Hall, a grand old oak is turning. Its neighbour, in the wintry light, will turn no more.

Wintry light, but autumn mushrooms jostle to emerge from winter cereal field margin, while next spring's Hazel catkins look ready to unfurl.

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Contrast:
- bejewelled Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
vs
- diseased Sallow (a Mossy Willow Catkin Gall caused by an Eriophyid Mite - Stenacis/Eriophyes triradiatus)

Brockley #Whepstead #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #Wildflowerhour 10/10

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Field Maple (Acer campestre) and Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) trunks on the holloway (today, become a stream) South of Bevan's Farm. Here you feel the old Suffolk.

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Today whenever I began chatting on the phone with a daughter at her Uni, Fallow Deer appeared; these with the Younger (permissive path near Bevan's Farm); with the Elder, Fallow rumps bobbed down the track ahead in Rushbottom Wood
#Whepstead #Suffolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 8/10

Autumn colour showing on the Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), Elder (Sambucus nigra) & Field Maple (Acer campestre) - leaves and keys.

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More fruit colouring a dank, grey afternoon: Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Blackthorn (Sloes) (Prunus spinosa), Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) & Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba).

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Thank goodness for fruit! Black Bryony, White Bryony & Bramble brighten the gloom of a still, damp, autumn afternoon along an enchanting green lane with tranquil pool on the Brockley/Whepstead border.

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#Whepstead is a lucky village to have Meadowsweet growing along a main street.

Lovely False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum) on the footpath to the church.

Hazels already losing their leaves - also in my dry, dry garden.

#Suffolk #SuffolkChurches 5/7

Thought I heard a Black Grouse... Instead, and almost as unexpected in the Suffolk countryside...

Even got to look down its ear...

#emu #Whepstead #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk 3/7

Something sensuous about the Old Man's Beard (looking young and virile) and the Spindle berries (Euonymus europaeus).

Great Willowherb can also be pretty at this time of year.

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The impossible sky blue of Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) makes me wish I too was a bee, to be fully immersed in it.

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On the margins of the barley sea, Hogweed, and the delicious Pineappleweed (Matricaria discoidea) fragrance underfoot.
Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) along a green lane a little further afield.
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Some fine bloodstock doing a Stubbs impression at Plumpton House.
Chalky nearby, by the looks of this Hoary Plantain (Plantago media).
Also Meadown Cranesbill (Geranium pratense) and Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis).
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Quite an Ash in Lark Wood.
And a fabulous coven of old park Oaks near Plumpton House, one adorned with a wild rose boa.
#Whepstead #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 6/8

Thrilled to come across a secret green passage at Whepstead with not only Bee Orchids (Ophrys apifera) but also Common Twayblades (Neottia ovata)!

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It is the season of creamy floral plates - Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), Elder (Sambucus nigra), Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) - floating along the edge of a Barley sea.

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A profusion of Pignut (Conopodium majus), a great favourite of mine, in the relative calm of Dovedenhall Wood, Whepstead. Also Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum).

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