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Oliver's Battery Countryside Group |
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View from the top gate, 18th May. |
Guelder Rose in flower by the top gate, 18th May. |
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View from the bottom gate, 26th May. The newly installed bench can be seen.
Profusion of campions and Cow Parsley. |
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View from the SE corner, 18th May.
Burdocks in the foreground. Lots of Cow Parsley round the caged whitebeam. |
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The SE corner, 18th May. |
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The new bench, 26th May. |
Sowthistles taking over the central area of shrub
planting below the dunghill. Elder blossom in the background. |
The hazel hedge. |
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View from near the Top Gate, 14th July.
Dark mullein, poppies, ox-eye daisies and hogweed can be seen.
The bramble patch is fringed with stinging nettles. |
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View from the Bottom Gate, 14th July. The bench is
hidden by tall grasses. Docks, sorrels, field bindweed, hogweed,
campions visible. To the right burdocks are getting rather
aggressive. |
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View from the SE corner, 14th July. Burdocks
outgrowing the shrubs planted in 2006. |
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| View from the top gate, 30th July. The second picture is zoomed in to show poppies, St John's Wort, Yarrow, Knapweed etc. | ||
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Photographs: Peter Land |