Pasque flowers

In decline, but still to be found on a chalk hillside in Hertfordshire are the wonderful pasque flowers - Pulsatilla vulgaris. Far fewer today than when I first came here years ago, but they survive on a steep chalk down. So much more attractive than the blowsy garden variety.



and here is another with a minute snail about to feed!

 

The sad thing is that if you take seed from a wild plant (not to be done except with permission) and grow it on in your garden, even then they become bigger.