Flowers of the Yorkshire Dales

As keen outdoor folks we spent a lot of time in our local area and other dales adjoining Swaledale, here is a sellection of our own photo's taken over the last 25 years.
I will be doing a series of ten pages altogether at may do another series this season if I get enough interest, thank you all for watching.

All pictures were taken with my very old Nikon Coolpix 990 which I think is still the ultimate macro digital camera.

The first flower we witness sometimes raising their heads as the last snows are melting away is the Winter Aconite, february and March.

Followed shortly by the Celandine and Coltsfoot in the same field from late March and early April, the whole field next to us here in Richmond turns the green into yellow, normally as the new lambs begin to arrive.

And the main crop flower for the bees and many other insects is our dandelion crop, here is a traditional hay meadow at Redmire in Wensleydale.

Here we have a rare flower of the Fairy Foxglove, these can be seen in Middleham Castle from early May onwards.

A little later in May we have some wonderful country road sides awash with this aromatic herb called Sweet Cicely or the English Mhrr, the locals used to use this as a natural sweetner in their cooking.

At the same time as the Cicely we have another rarity called the Dusky Cranesbill found here in Richmond in a secret place which is open to the public during the summer months, often called locally as Mourning Widows.

Along the riverbanks of the Swale are many wonderful patches of Bladder Campion with their tiny propeller like petals.

In the local woods are a few good stands of Herb Paris, where we have found plants with up to seven leaves, the flower is below.

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