'Tis a good year for ...................

[sime42]

Hawthorn blossom and Buttercups, amoungst other things.

 

 

 

These pictures don't really do it justice but there's a great show on out there, though not for much longer, the May blossom is coming to an end. 

 

[nepia]

Certainly agree re the may.  I've seen both the South Downs and the Dorset Downs today and they are spectacular though I wonder if some of it isn't blackthorn - too late for that maybe?

There's an armchair shaped valley in the South Downs against the south side of the A27 on the north edge of Hove where there are now almost no gaps in the scrub; if left alone I suppose it will soon become woodland.  It's a stunning sight in the sun just now

[rapalaman]

Red Robin blooming the most spectacular I’ve ever seen round here in Essex - stunning everywhere I see it 👍

[nepia]

Yes, that too down here in the south east.  It seems people have maybe learned to stop hacking the things to bits and actually letting them show themselves off at last. The pollinators love them too

[petercb]

hawthorn has been very good here too.

[sime42]

41 minutes ago, nepia said:

Certainly agree re the may.  I've seen both the South Downs and the Dorset Downs today and they are spectacular though I wonder if some of it isn't blackthorn - too late for that maybe?

There's an armchair shaped valley in the South Downs against the south side of the A27 on the north edge of Hove where there are now almost no gaps in the scrub; if left alone I suppose it will soon become woodland.  It's a stunning sight in the sun just now

A bit too late for Blackthorn I'd have thought, that's more like March/April.

 

I'm guessing you don't get them down there, I've not seen many too far south of the Midlands, but Midland Hawthorn is even more stunning. They're a lovely pink to red flowered variety, (or cultivar, more accurately).

 

[nepia]

There's plenty of blackthorn here, don't worry!  To the South Downs again and there's a constant battle against it to preserve the traditional, if artificial, landscape of the sheep-grazed Downs.  You often see plumes of smoke where heaps of the stuff has ben grubbed out and is alight