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September 14, 2016

Soft, downy quince (Cydonia oblonga ‘Meeches Prolific’)

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The marshes are awash with sea aster (Aster tripolium, changed in 2015 to Tripolium pannonicum). Interesting that in areas regularly submerged by tidal waters the aster often has the yellow disc florets but not the purple ray florets, so the effect is a soft yellow haze above the samphire and mud.

Over the reedbed - a cloud of feeding dragonflies. Migrant Hawkers and Common Darters swarming so thickly that I feel like I'm being bombarded in the key room from Harry Potter. Such profusion is a wonderful thing...

Today has been full of apples, swallows, marshes, waders and female bearded tits.

'My heart lies in the watery land where the curlew feed.' A privilege to follow the curlew through the marsh before the world awakens. Just the curlew, me and my shadow...

Quite a morning view - and somewhere out over the marshes - curlews and the sea...

Worth the wait - Dahlia 'Happy Single Date'

I've been bonding with pellitory of the wall or lichwort (Parietaria judaica) over the past few weeks. I first met this tenacious vagabond trailing along the walls of Orford Castle, but no-one at the English Heritage site could enlighten me when I inquired about its identity. Then I realised I'd been seeing it spreading along my local snickets and pathways all summer. A member of the nettle family, pellitory of the wall lives in pavement cracks, on banks, rocks and around churches and ruins. It provides food for the Red Admiral butterfly and was traditionally used as a cure for kidney stones, perhaps due to its propensity for growing in stony places. Ben Johnson certainly believed in its efficacy, saying: A good old woman... Did cure me With sodden ale and pellitorie of the wall Like the nettle, it is dioecious and wind pollinated, and according to the Plants for a Future database its leaves are edible like nettle leaves, although I've not tried them myself - partly owing to their habit of growing low down along the pavement edges!

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