Mitton Marsh
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This Week in Photos: 2nd – 8th of February (6)
Overview Pendulous Birch – Snow drips – First Primrose – The underworld – Mist at Mount Pleasant – Angels & Spires – Wet hams
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What’s Flowering? 21st-27th April 2025 (17)
It’s really beginning to feel like spring, with hawthorn starting to flower, St Mark’s Fly are abundant over on Hartlebury Common and cow parsley is just getting going. In the woods, wild garlic is in full flower, and the bluebells are beginning to pass their best. We’ve had some mixed weather, but it has mostly…
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Botanical Notes: March 2025
The countryside is waking up, the lanes and woods are decorated with lesser celandine, wood anemones, violets, dog’s mercury and primroses. For most of March I have been racing to get out before the sun goes down at around 6:30. But now that the clocks have changed, every evening presents an opportunity to get out…
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10 Places within 10 Minutes of Stourport-on-Severn
The List ‘Doorstep’ Places Mitton Marsh Conservation Area This is a short loop that can be done on foot in around 30 minutes literally from the front doorstep. Follow the footpath that can be picked up from the junction of Millfields Drive and the B4193 which runs along the bank of the River Stour. The…
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Botanical Notes: August & September 2024
It’s been a while! But we’re back with some botanical highlights from August and September, and my first couple of months with Severn Rivers Trust. 1. Hybrid Woundwort (Stachys x ambigua). It shares the characters of both parents (S. sylvatica and S. palustris), but unlike S. palustris it has leaf stalks! These plants were growing…
