Two for the price of one.

Double natural history blip.

As you walk round the village you pass many hundreds of yards of old limestone walls. They are worth looking at carefully.

They are dominated by three small plants which grow in profusion from the cracks between the stones.
These are: Ivy Leaved Toadflax with its little mauve flowers for much of the year, Wall Rue and lastly Maidenhair Spleenwort. ( Adiantum trichomanes) which is shown in my photo above. Not to be confused with Maidenhair Fern which I blipped with icicles last week.

There are many thousands of these attractive little plants in the village.

And today I am able to offer a second attraction in the form of a White lipped banded snail ( Cepaea hortensis)