Wild Flowers
As Spring arrives so do the wild flowers. Waiting for the wintering sheep
to leave; first up are the bluebells, grassy banks turning blue just for a few
days. Yellow corners where primroses take over. Then because the land has been
left to its own devices for the last 25 years the whole island becomes smothered
with wild flowers and aromatic roses growing side by side with tangles of wild
strawberries, spiny restharrow, and germander speedwell. Hedges burst with
foxgloves standing alongside yellow archangel, walls with navelwort clinging to
the crevices. In June, the estuary turns a shade of pink as sea thrift blooms,
before the big tides of July.
Marsh orchid