· James Torr · Personal · 1 min read
Rather enjoyed seeing the defiant grasses and wild clematis erupting from these traffic bollards on a road siding.
This Echinopsis is quite spectacular. Never had two flowers before. Smells amazing, unfortunately the bloom will be gone quite quickly.
My first ever ripe fig. Pity not all of them are as ripe as this. Picked and enjoyed today. All the sun we've had this year must have pushed this to be edible, and monstrous too. And delicious it was.
in a little series of urban "edibles". This is prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola, closest known wild relative of cultivated lettuce, L. sativa. Wikipedia describes it as having a "fetid" odor. That doesn't exactly sound appetising.
There's a stunning field of wildflowers and poppies just north of Ovingdean if anyone is in the Brighton area. Just head up and have a look. Someone has planted the borders up with tons of them. If you walk from the bottom up towards the golf course, there's a really fantastic border full of all kinds of stuff. They've definitely been planted (or seeded) there as there's a few species you don't usually see in the wild.