Small but mighty

Basking in the sun this morning. A little Herb Robert and
Alyssum growing between paving stones. 18 July 2024

Unidentified wildflower - can you?

Spotted near Sudbury Hill, Harrow (18/10/2023)

The single flower is small but not tiny with four petals and inner layer of petals emerging. The petals are magenta with darker stripes a bit like Common Mallow and the leaves are oblong densely veined and with finely jagged edges. So far the Plantnet app and RHS online have failed to match this plant with any other. [It must be rare, no? Ed.]

Update

The same plant two days later (20/10/2023)

The flower has opened out and looks a bit different. Thanks to Anonymous for the comment below, which seems to have solved the mystery. Quote: "It looks like an Annual Clary (also known as Red Topped Sage) to me. Usually found around the Mediterranean and not Willesden Green." Of all our millions of readers, Anonymous was the first to come up with a sage answer to the query. [Ed.]

Bee fly hovering on forget-me-nots

Spotted in the jungle behind Herald House today

Wildflower

Common Dog-violet, Viola riviniana (no?)

The unaccompanied child refugee

Save our beautiful souls

Sunday afternoon

Looking towards Sudbury Hill Harrow station

Buddleia butterfly (2)

Buddleia seems to have blossomed for the second time this year.

This afternoon

Sudbury Hill station

Spring flowers

Lesser Celandine? (South Vale)

Yesterday afternoon

Wildflowers

Wood End Road

They are complex flowers, very beautiful, and there are lots growing wild round here. Can you identify them?*

* Love in a Mist! Thanks Nigella. Ed

Mowed autumn

The wildflower meadow

has gone the way

of all meadows yearly.

A picnic bench vandalised

Berries and late flowers

Snow berries (poisonous)

Red berries. Unknown

Blackberries

Haws

Red Clover? These are the only ones left,
& quite big flowers, so maybe a different type?
The tall things are ribwort plantain, gone to seed.

Field Scabious

Teasel et al. Not as tall as last year.

All in the fields behind Willesden sports centre

St Andrew's wildflowers

The flowerbeds on the high street side of St Andrew's church, which were overgrown with weeds, look as if they have had some attention and turned themselves into pleasant wildflower displays. There is another smaller one, which has also improved and has some wild hollyhocks inter alia.

Periwinkle

Vincus Major

Closer up

Donnington Road

Meadow profusion

Organised chaos. Tuesday evening, 21 August.

Field weeds

Ribwort Plantain flowers are out now.
That's our fierce Yorkshire terrier in the background.

Street weeds

?

?

Bistort (with the spotted leaves)

More weeds

Red Dead Nettle this morning

Wild Geum* this week with burrs like sea mines.
Started as single yellow flowers & nettle-like leaves.

* Identified by A. Sherlock

Meadow update

Unknown

Unknown

Various

Various. A lot of pink thistle flowers (top)

Teasel

Teasel

Various

Scabious

Latest from the meadow

unknown

The one in front is white,
the ones at back mostly mauve-ish.

Knapweed, a tall one.
(Greater Knapweed?)

Various