Holly-leaved Hellebore

After depositing Chris and Lizzy at the station, Pete and I set off for the annual Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union recorders' meeting, where I was giving a report. On the way we stopped off to do some botanising in Swinderby, a village with a rather nice churchyard, whose grassland had copious quantities of Pignut, Cat's Ear and Cuckoo-flower. Even more surprising was a well established colony of Holly-leaved Hellebore Helleborus argutifolius, growing in cracks at the base of a brick-wall, and a very large population of Eastern Cyclamen Cyclamen coum seeding into a roadside verge.