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A trip to Ards forest park - an ancient coastal forest.

 

Today - flowers from Ards forest park. More fungi from Ards tomorrow.

 

Bright periods with occasional torrential rain.

A new flowering plant for me - the native Golden Rod - Solidago virgaurea. A bit late, but most of the plants had gone over.

Golden Rod    Golden Rod Close-up

Harebell

Ards forest is on a peninsula jutting out into the sea. At the fringes there are dunes and grassy meadows. I spotted a few of these Harebells still in flower.

 

And close-by I found a few Yarrow plants with bright purple petals.

I'd always associated Devil's-bit Scabious with open heath, but there were quite a few specimens growing in the fringes of the woodland. They were much more lush than I'm used to, with many rich green leaves.

And here's one I took today and just had to show. This is a Lycoperdon puffball, doing what puffballs are named for. The brown mist in the photo is the spores emerging from the hole in the top of the fungus.

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