Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 27 July 2021

  • Rosebay willow herb

    Rosebay willow herb

    Until the industrial revolution Chamerion angustifolium was a comparatively rare plant of woodland clearings and was often planted in gardens. Since then it has become the most successful coloniser of open land, embankments, waste grounds. I can remember the fluffy seeds being carried along in the draft of a thundering steam train. Each plant produces…