Wildflower of the Week

The hellebores in Hatfield Forest are blooming well now. There are about 60 in this colony. Wonderful!

 

HB..lovely pictures and lovely flowers..its nice to see your wildflower pictures again..

 

The hellebores in the forest are looking fantastic in the bright February sunshine

 

Stunning pictures! Your local area looks just beautiful! In which area of Britain is this?

 

Hi Jarbax - Hatfield Forest on the Herts/Essex border and under the ominous shadow of Stansted Airport

See:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hatfieldforest/

 

Great pictures as usual Hornbeam

 

Coltsfoot is just coming in to flower now. Named from its leaves which look like colts' hoof prints, they emerge much later than the flowers.
The leaves were dried and smoked and used as a very effective cough remedy.

 

I love the coltsfoot flower picture..your forest must be a magical place ..they still use the coltsfoot in herbal ciggarettes available at the health shop..

 

Used to love coltsfoot rock as a lad don't know how much was actually in it

 

Superb photos as usual HB - I especially like the helebores - dont know if mine are out yet cos I cant get up the garden to see Praps Mr M will take me up in the wheelbarrow :D

 

What have you done to yourself, Marge?

 

lovely pictures hb they should be in the febuary competition, excellent photography

 

Great thread! And lovely pix, too - must dust off my old gear! It's been boxed since we started renovating.... four years!!!
One minor bit of pedantry though..."milfoil", I think you'll find, refers to the ferny leaves rather than the flowers. The latin is "mille folium" which comes to us through Old French (probably Norman) and means "a thousand leaves". The modern French is "mille feuilles" - like those scrummy pastries. (I spent some of the first two years of my languages degree charting the devopment of latin into all sorts of things... stuff you can always use, eh???) Bet that's sent everybody to sleep!!!!

 

Glad you like the photos and I stand corrected on milfoil . You are quite right of course :D