Silver-rimmed...

Today was the first meeting of the South Lincolnshire Flora Group, which I'm trying to get established. The aim is to catalyse botanical recording, to provide data for a new Atlas of the British Flora, scheduled to come out in 2025! The actual recording needs to be completed by 2019, which means we've all got to get busy! Seven years seems a long time, but there's a lot of ground to cover...

We visited Bourne Woods, a large Forestry Commission woodland, with an impressive range of woodland flowers. There were seven adults, a toddler, a baby and two dogs present, and we braved the heavy rain showers to do a circuit of the southern part of the wood. The intense hail was fairly unpleasant, and poor little H got hit on the nose, which made her cry a lot! Gemma and Rosie weren't too keen on the weather either.

Eventually the weather got the better of us and we headed back to the car-park. I was too busy recording plants or sheltering from the rain to take any photographs, even though there were some beautiful drifts of snowy-white wood anemones. This image of backlit field maple leaves was taken in the garden when we'd returned home - of course there was plenty of sunshine then!!