Perfect weather for haymaking in Teesdale today .....
... turning hay to dry in dawn-to-dusk sunshine .....
.... and baling hay that was already dry .....
...... leaving bare fields that were full of hay meadow wild flowers a few weeks ago ....
.... but there are still mountain pansies flowering on the banks that are too steep to cut ....
.... and betony, a late summer flower of rough grassland and pastures, is in bloom ....
... with flowers that are almost as attractive as an orchid, while ....
.... ripening hazel nuts are a reminder that autumn isn't far away ....
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It has been great to have wall to wall sunshine for a change. It sounded as though harvesting had started here last night as I could hear the drone of combines at bedtime.
ReplyDeleteIs not betony a lovey plant?
ReplyDeleteI grow it in the garden and the insects love the flowers.
The farmers here are using this window of opportunity to get as much haymaking done as possible, John..
ReplyDeleteIt is, isn't it Alison .... and flowering after a lot of other plants have finished too..
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