The trail was awash with hawthorn blossoms in May, each branch clad in white and occasionally pink tinged flowers...an uplifting sight and a signal that spring had well and truly arrived.
An additional feature this year was a field of campion flowers that had bloomed in the absence of any farming activity.
Whilst sorting images for my last post and looking up information about the various types of umbellifers (or Apiaceae), I noticed another themed set in the photographs taken during June along the Southwell Trail. This theme was various members of the Rose family:
The first rose is the awfully named dog rose (Rosa canina):
Also a member of the rose family is the common bramble with its fine pink flowers:
In fact, the rose family is quite extensive with many common members including crab apple, wild pear, rowan or mountain ash, cherry trees, wild plum or damson, and hawthorn. All these are present along the trail and I particularly liked these clusters of white and pink hawthorn flowers captured at the beginning of June:
Finally, along the path were showers of fallen hawthorn petals, some settling on the undergrowth:
There are enough photographs to show a second selection from my trip to Robin Hood Hill at the beginning of June. The first set focused on the oilseed yellows (see my previous post) and these are more general landscapes picking out features like the flowering hawthorns, some of the oak and ash trees that were still developing new leaves, and cow parsley lining the path…very straight forward photography but enjoyable all the same:
The final set of images from May's photography features blossoming hawthorn and oilseed rape along the River Trent at Fiskerton. The oilseed flowers grow wild on the banks of the river having ‘escaped’ from the bordering agricultural fields contributing some bright yellows to the spring scenes on the Trent:
