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We have been collecting wild flower images since 1998 and this archive contains some 600 images. As a member you have access to all of them. When you click on 'download' you will be given a choice of screen size. This allows you to view the image at its best, on a black background filling the whole screen.
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Carrot, Musk Mallow and Butterfly Bush - large file (1.72mb)29 July 2010. Butterfly Bush is the ‘end of term’ flower. It’s out at the time when full summer has arrived and all the children are thinking of their holidays. Wild Carrot is also flowering at the moment – the most perfect of the white umbellifers. 
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Vervain and Field Bindweed - large file (2.1mb)23 July 2010. Vervain looks better in this arrangement than it does in the wild, where it’s rather a scrubby and straggly plant. It has a long history as a herbal cure used by Saxons.
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Common Spotted Orchid, Herb Robert and Hop leaves - large file16 July 2010. Orchids have an aura of the rare and exotic but these stunning flowers (look closely at the patterns of the purple flowered spikes like tropical fish in the dappled underwater light) come from a large colony on a roadside embankment. Hops are scrambling everywhere on the hedgerows and no doubt some of their flowers will find their way onto the website soon.
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Salsify, Fox-and-Cubs, Forget-me-not and Herb Robert leaves - large file (2.99mb)20 May 2010. Exotic flowers to find in England? Salsify and Fox-and-Cubs came fairly recently (i.e. within the last 500 years or so) from mainland Europe, while Forget-me-not has probably been around since the last Ice Age ended about 14,000 years ago (but only got its pretty name in about 1800 – before that it was called Scorpion Grass!), along with Herb Robert. End of lesson for today.
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Salsify, Fox-and-Cubs, Forget-me-not and Herb Robert leaves20 May 2010. Exotic flowers to find in England? Salsify and Fox-and-Cubs came fairly recently (i.e. within the last 500 years or so) from mainland Europe, while Forget-me-not has probably been around since the last Ice Age ended about 14,000 years ago (but only got its pretty name in about 1800 – before that it was called Scorpion Grass!), along with Herb Robert. End of lesson for today.
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