Spring woodland flowers. (Clockwise from top right - Wood sorrel, Bluebell, Wood Anemone, Lesser Celandine. Click on photo to see larger image)Before the canopy of the trees fully develop, the early woodland flowers, notably bluebell, lesser celandine and wood anenome cover the woodland floor. Today walked through Keil's den, a wooded area on both sides of the Keil Burn which eventually flows into Largo Bay. This is an area of ancient woodland which is now managed by the Woodland Trust. The Spring flowers today were amazing - carpets of bluebells, banks of lesser celandine. There were also patches of wood anenomes, primroses, violets and wood sorrel.
At the edge of the woodland peacock butterflies were flitting about, and also orange tip butterflies, my first sighting of them this year.
2 comments:
I recently bought my own wood in Buckinghamshire. It's amazing the number of wild flowers that have emerged this spring.
Tim
Many thanks for your comment. We have had quite a cold Spring up here in Fife,but the good thing is that the Spring flowers have lasted for ages. There are still quite a few daffodils in bloom in my garden. The trees are just coming into leaf, so the development of the woodland canopy has been delayed, allowing the flowers to bloom in profusion. Well,that's my theory. Not necessarily the correct one.
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