Within the rich gold of an upland hay meadow there are subtleties of colour and structure. Two key plants ensure biodiversity, yellow rattle and eyebright. Both draw sustenance from grasses, tapping into their roots below ground in an invisible web. What we see is an intricate weave. I love the aesthetic and I focus on detail within the tangle, looking up into the flora of the hay meadow through a screen of grasses.
Here goes.
Here goes.
I show the over-view of an upland hay meadow, with red and white clovers, ox-eye daisies and various hawkbeard and hawkbit flowers. Yellow rattle has small yellow flowers and when the plant has been pollinated seeds develop in an inflated pod which ripens from green through soft pink to brown. Shake those pods and the seeds rattle. Eye-bright is a small but rather lovely flower.
Walking on a vanishing path north of Borrowdale Beck, I photographed grasses and thistles coming into bloom.
Walking on a vanishing path north of Borrowdale Beck, I photographed grasses and thistles coming into bloom.
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