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Wildflower Escapees

Turns out there are far more flowers than 60. Here are the ones we collected on walks that were outside the remit of the 60 we were aiming for.

Botanical illustration of bristly oxtongue with yellow flowers and prickly leaves. Botanical illustration of wood avens with small yellow flowers and hooked seed heads.
Bristly Oxtongue

Anglesey Abbey

25 Sept 2026

Wood Avens

Anglesey Abbey

25 Sept 2026

Hemp Agrimony

Anglesey Abbey

25 Sept 2026

Botanical illustration of hogweed with white umbrella-shaped flower heads. Botanical illustration of creeping cinquefoil with yellow flowers and five-part leaves. Botanical illustration of creeping thistle with purple flowers and fluffy seed heads.
Hogweed

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Creeping Cinquefoil

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Creeping Thistle

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Botanical illustration of bittersweet with red berries among green leaves. Botanical illustration of dandelions with yellow flowers and round seed clocks. Botanical illustration of plantain with ribbed leaves and upright seed spikes.
Bittersweet

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Dandelion

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Plantain

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Botanical illustration of yarrow with clusters of white flowers. Botanical illustration of lady’s bedstraw with tiny yellow flowers and whorls of narrow leaves. Botanical illustration of cuckoo’s pint with a spike of red berries.
Yarrow

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Lady’s Bedstraw

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Cuckoo’s Pint

Ferry Meadows

27 Sept 2026

Watercolour of deep violet clustered bellflowers among limestone grassland at Barnack Hills and Holes. Watercolour interpretation of probable common rock-rose, with five-petalled yellow flowers in short limestone turf at Barnack Hills and Holes. Watercolour interpretation of probable white campion, with cleft white petals and ribbed calyces at Barnack Hills and Holes.
Clustered Bellflower

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Common Rock-rose

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Probable identification

White Campion

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Probable identification

Watercolour of St John’s-wort with a few yellow flowers and many brown seed capsules at Barnack Hills and Holes; species unconfirmed. Watercolour of white dead-nettle (Lamium album), with white hooded flowers and toothed green leaves among grass in Burghley House parkland. Watercolour interpretation of probable hedgerow crane’s-bill, with mauve notched flowers and rounded lobed leaves among grass at Ferry Meadows.
St John’s-wort

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Hypericum — species unconfirmed

White Dead-nettle

Burghley House

5 October 2026

Hedgerow Crane’s-bill

Ferry Meadows

8 October 2026

Probable identification

Sown-border finds

Flowers from the sown border at Burghley House. Probable identifications are marked below.

Watercolour interpretation of probable Moroccan toadflax, with pink, purple and yellow spurred flowers in a sown border at Burghley House. Watercolour interpretation of probable scarlet flax, with crimson five-petalled flowers on slender stems in a sown border at Burghley House. Watercolour of dyer’s tickseed, with golden yellow flowerheads and burgundy centres in a sown border at Burghley House.
Moroccan Toadflax

Burghley House — sown border

2 October 2026

Probable identification

Scarlet Flax

Burghley House — sown border

2 October 2026

Probable identification

Dyer’s Tickseed

Burghley House — sown border

2 October 2026

Watercolour of pale pink cosmos flowers and finely divided foliage in a sown border at Burghley House.
Cosmos

Burghley House — sown border

2 October 2026

Many Yellow Things

Two separate photo studies from Barnack Hills and Holes. Their identities are still unresolved; they may represent the same species.

Watercolour study of two unidentified yellow composite flowerheads among grass and low leaves at Barnack Hills and Holes. Watercolour study of a sparse unidentified yellow composite flowerhead among mixed leaves at Barnack Hills and Holes.
Unidentified Yellow — Study 1

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Identification unresolved — photo IMG_9733

Unidentified Yellow — Study 2

Barnack Hills and Holes

2 October 2026

Identification unresolved — photo IMG_9715

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