Tag Archives: Springtime

Love of Nature, Natural History, Walks

It’s Spring! Kew Gardens in May

10 May 2023 Ian Alexander

How’s that for an amazing Rhododendron bush?

Kew – Pollen Cones of Austrian Pine

Kew – glorious blue flower spike … a whole meadow’s worth of them

Kew’s Daisy Lawn with Canada Geese

Natural History

Springtime under Lockdown

7 April 2020 Ian Alexander

April Come She Will …
A beautiful spring day, the sky deepest blue, the birches gleaming white, their catkins reddish, the grass glowing green as the lawns of Tolkien’s Lothlórien. I glimpse the beauty on my daily exercise walk: even the phrase sounds like a prison routine.

Natural History

Spring Crocuses!

Image 23 February 2018 Ian Alexander

Spring Crocuses on the Common

Love of Nature, Natural History

Spring Surprises

12 April 2017 Ian Alexander

New Oak leaves and catkins, Richmond Park

Kissing Season (Gorse in Bloom), Thursley Common

Tulips, Kew Gardens

Roman Snail, Gunnersbury Triangle

Birches in new leaf under dark pines Thursley

Larva of Broad-Bordered Yellow Underwing Moth, Gunnersbury Triangle

Conservation, Nature Reserves

It’s Spring! Crocuses! Corporate Workday!

8 March 2017 Ian Alexander

EDF group clearing demo garden by hut

EDF Corporate Group on cleared picnic meadow bank

Crocuses on the Common

Even the phone boxes are redder in springtime, when the daffodils are out

The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature