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| This little rose flower only lasts about two days, and will then grow into a rose hip. When it is red and soft in the autumn, it will be eaten by birds, and the rose seeds spread by them. The hairs wrapping the seed are horribly itchy (but birds don't seem to mind). Rose hip syrup is tasty. |
| This close up of the meadow plants shows buttercups with their amazing yellow petals reflecting light. There are a variety of grasses in our meadow. All of them release clouds of pollen to irritate hayfever victims (including one of our horses)! | 
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| These oak trees are a huge green housing estate. There are jays and mice eating the acorns, squirrels nesting, fungi on the trunk, and caterpillars on the leaves. There are wasps making lumps (galls) on the acorn and lichens on the twigs. |
| These fungi are busy chewing their way into this birch fence post. They will grow strong from the wood of the post, and grow into new 'brackets' out into the air, to spread their spores. The birch post gets weaker but it is not a strong timber and fungi love it. | 
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| There is a variety of plants living on the bark of this old apple tree. The green mosses thrive on the damp bark crevices. The litchen is an indicator that our air is clean because it won't grow when it too full of poisonous Sulphur Dioxide fumes from car exhausts. |