I Love Arnside and Silverdale: 4th June 2020 - Snippets of Wealth - Hedge Woundwort etc. Male Fern with Crested Pinnae,

Thursday, 4 June 2020

4th June 2020 - Snippets of Wealth - Hedge Woundwort etc. Male Fern with Crested Pinnae,

I set off today with the intentions of checking out the Hypericums in Dalton Lower Crags, and followed my route I have called over the years "Hypericum Way". Straightaway I was drawing blanks and the only sign of any were the mighty Tutsan. Obviously I was far too early. Yet strangely I did have the montanums and the hirsutums last week whilst in Lancelot and at far higher altitude. So I will just have to check it out again in a week or two.

I can't let a year go by without paying homage to this beautiful Stachys silvatica - Hedge Woundwort which gives off so much beauty

Also another annual check to see how the male ferns are doing at the bottom of Dalton Crags. There is always a couple of them which show crested pinnae and I was not let down.

The lovely scollies (Harts Tongue) part way up the lower Dalton Crags always turns out Marginatum (or for at least 4 years as I am aware), but I noticed in years past it is without doubt spreading and now we have 3 separate but close populations showing the frond edges well serrated.

Just a quick check on the Strawberries which are showing well throughout with most now in fruit stage.