langcliffe
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Maybe not a flower per se, but definitely an angiosperm, I couldn't help taking time out to admire this impressive sweet chestnut in Dufton this afternoon.
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Lankyman
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Dufton Gill Wood?
langcliffe
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Lankyman
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It's a lovely short loop just below the village and such a contrast to the high fells nearby
Dufton Ghyll Wood - Woodland Trust
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
tony from suffolk
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On our walk this morning, a horse chestnut tree with bright-red blossoms -
Cantclimbtom
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Lovely twisty tree! Chestnuts can be good at that.
On the weekend I admired the "whomping willow" (Kew) despite the name it's a particularly twisty chestnut. The makers of the Harry potter films had taken a cast of the trunk, to base the decidedly antisocial willow tree in one of the films. No idea why I didn't take a photo?
langcliffe
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Beautiful! A stonecrop of some sort.
Lankyman
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Some sea thrift/pink on the rocks beside the Falls of Lora where Loch Etive runs out to sea.
Tomorrow, weather permitting we're off on the ferry to Mull and a day out to Fingal's Cave and Lunga where I hope to see my first puffins.
Also horse chestnut in flower beside the loch
Tomorrow, weather permitting we're off on the ferry to Mull and a day out to Fingal's Cave and Lunga where I hope to see my first puffins.
Also horse chestnut in flower beside the loch
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langcliffe
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The white flower looks like scurvygrass. The other is a sedum - roseroot.
Lankyman
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Today we've been on Kerrera, the island which shelters Oban harbour. I've been before but it's well worth several visits especially a southern circuit past Gylen Castle. For a change this time we also climbed the highest hill as well (a mighty 189m asl with great views all round).
Yellow flag irises just starting to flower - the mountains of Mull across the sea
Near the top of the island masses of violets and bird's-foot trefoil
It wouldn't be Scotland without some cotton grass in a boggy patch. Oban down below and the twin peaks of Ben Cruachan on the right.
Yellow flag irises just starting to flower - the mountains of Mull across the sea
Near the top of the island masses of violets and bird's-foot trefoil
It wouldn't be Scotland without some cotton grass in a boggy patch. Oban down below and the twin peaks of Ben Cruachan on the right.
bagpuss
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It's a lovely place, feels really isolated despite being so near to Oban. Is the cafe still there?
Lankyman
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If you mean the café near Gylen Castle at the south end, yes - we sat in the sun there for tea and cake today. A few years ago I walked round the northern end and there was a farm shop where you could self serve ice cream and drinks. It was unusual to sit at the beach there watching pretty large Calmac vessels manoeuvre just offshore as they approach the harbour at Oban. Unfortunately they bulldozed a big dirt road up to there from the ferry pier which sort of removed the isolated feeling of the northern part for me. The west coast is excellent, looking over towards Mull.
Lankyman
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Sea pinks from yesterday on the island of Luing, south of Oban. It's one of the Slate Islands which were quarried and, in the case of Belnahua and Easedale, almost erased. This bit of coast was heavily quarried and the track we were on is gradually falling into the sea and is fraught at high tide/heavy seas.
The disappearing track
The disappearing track
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