Village flora

This morning I felt quite full of energy again, so after breakfast I headed out to do some botanical recording in a couple of fen-edge villages. The sunshine was beautiful, though clouds bubbled up through the morning, and every time the sun disappeared it still felt really quite chilly. 

This gate-post seems to be a relic of a time before the village of Morton expanded, and now stands rather incongruously in a street of modern houses. It's surrounded by three of the most frequent neophytes, established somewhere in most South Lincolnshire villages - Red Valerian, Greater Periwinkle and Green Alkanet. However, the starry white flowers of Hairy Garlic are much less common, but very attractive.