Field of Dreams

Photograph taken August 2016, local farmer’s field, Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D7200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens.

08/1608/16 by Peter Hillman Categories: Fields & Meadows, Local Walks, Nature Photography, PlacesTags: Agriculture, Cereal Crop, Crops, Farming, Field, Fields, Macro, Nature, Nature Photography Leave a comment

Gone To Seed

After a week’s very hot weather, it has encourged much of the grass in the local fields to go to seed.

07/16 by Peter Hillman Categories: Fields & Meadows, Grasses, Sedges & Rushes, Local Walks, Nature Photography, Places, PlantsTags: Field, Fields, Grasses, Macro, Macro Photography, Meadows, Nature, Nature Photography, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography 3 Comments

Cow Parsley

Anthriscus sylvestris

Also called ‘Queen Anne’s Lace’, ‘Hedge Parsley’, ‘Wild Parsley’ and ‘Wild Chervil’, this is one of the earliest flowering umbellifers in spring. This is a fast-growing, tall plant with hollow, unspotted stems. It usually grows in great numbers and produces white frothy umbrellas made up of small white flowers. The leaves are large and fern-like, and when crushed they produce a strong, aniseed-like scent. Plant height 60 to 150cm. Umbels 6 to 12mm wide.

Flowers April to June. It prefers moist soil and grows in masses along roadsides, riverbanks, near streams and pools, woodland margins, hedgerows, meadows and pastures. Native, common and widespread throughout Britain.

Cow Parsley is a rich source of nectar for hoverflies, bees and other insects.

Photographs taken May 2014, local field, Staffordshire.

07/16 by Peter Hillman Categories: Nature Photography, Plants, Wild FlowersTags: Anthriscus sylvestris, Apiaceae, Cow Parsley, Field, Fields, Nature, Nature Photography, Plants, Umbellifers, Wild Flowers, Wildlife Photography Leave a comment