West Malvern Community Woods, Worcestershire.

The West Malvern Community Wood is the picture of idylic beauty, for both children an adults to enjoy and explore. I will let the photos I took today speak for themselves.

Wild Garlic

Ferns

Bench and buttercups

Bluebells and Nettle flowers

Fern

Buttercups

Dandylion

Fungi

Dandylions and buttercups

Bluebell on path

Wild garlic

Bee on flower

 

Broom at side of path

 

Wyche Cutting, Worcester. A walk in the woods.

Fern unfurling

Today I walked from the Wyche
 Cutting church car park, south
along the path through the woods
 to Gardiners Quarry. The path
 takes you through lightly wooded
 deciduous areas and a small

The footpath

 coniferous wood. Along the way
 you come across several areas 
where bluebells are growing. There
 are areas thick with ferns, areas
 covered by foxglove and willow herb
 plants, both of which should be beautiful

Bluebell detail

come late July and August. There are
 also areas thick with brambles so come
 autumn there should be plenty of 
blackberries.

Tree root detail

Foxgloves along path

Bluebells

Ridge Walk, Malvern, Worcester, Beautiful Flora.

Bluebells in the wood

Unknown wildflower

 Yesterday I walked the West Malvern Ridge walk. This walk goes from the Outdoor Centre, through the farm yard and sheep fields, then along the ancient ridge path through a wood, before coming out at Croft Bank Farm. 

Bluebell detail

It was a delightfully warm day and along the pathway you came across various wild flowers. All our native wild flowers are legally protected, and so you should never pick them as you can be prosecuted. You must leave them so they will continue to thrive and hopefully will be there for generations to come. 

Wild garlic

Pink Orchids

Cowslip, Primula veris

I point this out really as wild orchids are critically endangered because they are so beautiful people steal them to put in their own gardens. This always fail to work as the orchids are such niche and specialist plants that they will not survive in your back garden no matter how carefully you try and replicate their natural home.

Primrose

Euphorbia

Vines

Angelica and some blue flower

Wood view

Orchids and Lizards at British Camp, Malvern, Worcestershire.

View of hills to the north of British Camp

Bright yellow fields of rape seed flowers

 Today is a cloudy dull day. British camp is still a beautiful place but the subtle beauty revealed by such a day you have to see first hand to appreciate. Either that or I need to get much more expensive photographic equipment. I bought my Nokia lumina expressly because it, at the time, had the best camera of any of the mobile phones, but in these light conditions it loses clarity and sometimes everything fades to dull silhouettes.

Orchid

That said there were a few decent vista shots, and somethings were just so beautiful. I came across a number of yellow orchids. They were only about six cm tall but once you spotted them and stooped down for a closer look they were exquisite.

The wood near the reservoir is carpeted in bluebells, though slightly faded and more subtle in the low light, their beauty could not be diminished.

Little violet flowers

Add to that the wildlife. Swifts and swallows feasting on flies flew overhead in great swooping patterns stunningly over the surface of both the hills and the reservoir. Their flight path undulations matching exactly the undulations of the land a mere three or four cm above the surface. Their speed though again means you need to be there to see it.

Slow worm

A slow worm, which is neither a worm or a snake but actually a legless lizard, I did manage to snap. Being cold blooded it needs to absorb the suns warmth to get itself moving in the morning. On a cloudy day such as this, that takes longer and it was trying its best to sunbathe on one of the paths. I just about managed to sneak up and get a decent shot off before it slithered away into the nearby brambles and vanished. Very rare and quite endangered spotting one is an absolute treat.

Bluebells in the wood near British Camp Reservoir Wood

View to the south of British Camp

Bluebells, Old Hills, Callow End, Worcester.

Okay so the dandylions were lovely too

Today I took my friends to see the bluebell wood. I was thrilled to see how fabulous they looked. The bluebells are all open and such a deep pure blue. If you have time and live close enough it is the place to be. here a just a few pictures of them.