Marsh Foxtail photographed in my studio using a combination of focus stacking and stitching to create a very high resolution image

Finding this shrub in a woodland just before spring starts is a fantastic experience.. You can see the colour fom some way away but as you walk near, the sweet smell hits you.

A single flower, though you can see the spur of the one above dangling down half filled with nectar. Any insect wanting a drink of the sugary food needs a very long proboscis; usually a moth.

Pink flowers everywhere

Not exactly the biggest tree around but on a windy mountain top an inch is plenty high enough.

A field of poppies just before the sun rose, probably the only time that the wind is still enough for a photo.

An old arable weed which would poison bread but nevertheless is beautiful, shame it’s so rare.

I found a bramble leaf in the garden with these two vacated mines of a micro moth Stigmella aurella though it looks more like a much rarer moth that doesn’t occur around here. The adult moth is 2mm across

An old arable weed which would poison bread but nevertheless is beautiful, shame it’s so rare.

This one is tiny, it took a little finding but eventually I found the 2mm high plant. I thought I’d show the wider scene as well it is a scrape dug out to remove the grass and expose the copper rich soil underneath for the moss to gain a foothold. This is one of only two places in the world where this moss occurs, both in Cornwall.