Thursday, May 5, 2011

Great Flora in the Cotswolds


Did an excellent walk today, with a group, from Broadway to Chipping Campden by way of Fish Hill and Broadway Tower. The group had a good tour around Campden with local guides and then a number walked back to Mickleton with me. 10 miles of walking in glorious sunshine. We saw early purple orchids and cowslips on the hillside, the woods were abundant with wild garlic and bluebells, the May blossom and the horse chestnut were spectacular. Just when we thought that we wouldn't see any different flora and fauna, the woods above Mickleton rewarded us with a huge bracket fungus attached to a beech tree.

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