Local Parks – Bruntwood Park

I had a walk around this lovely council park it was great to see some lovely plants.

The main picture on the right is a Mahonia, they flower in the colder months and can have a lovely scent followed by berries. The leaves of the Beech tree (I believe) are clinging on and giving a lovely colour to a somewhat ‘grey’ background. Shrubs still offer interest with berries, here these white are prominent on a bare leaved shrub. Lovely glossy marbled leaves of the Arum italicum offer interest in the most shadiest of spaces, later to be followed with insignificant flowers that produce bright red berried held high on spikes. Finally you can see some daffodils emerging from the soil.

What amazed me whilst walking about this park is that nature is persistent, the daffodils appear to have been trampled on at some point yet still grow, the picture above shows a Rhododendron with a hollow trunk yet still survives, looking very arty I might add.

I remember this park used to be filled with bluebells in the spring, I hope to return in the next couple of months to look at the blue hue and take in their perfume.

Local parks – Cale Green

You may have read before that I enjoy walking round this park to get my steps up.

The park is very local to me, only minutes walk. I am happy that it is a well kept and looked after park, many people frequent this park to walk their dogs, catch up with friends or simply to get some fresh air.

When I arrived at the park yesterday I was surprised to see this stunning small tree in flower, I had never noticed it before. This is the Witch hazel in its best form, looking close up the flowers almost look like strips of uncurling paper, they also have an amazing perfume!

Walking round the park I found all sorts of other treasures, here are some variations of white plants in the park.

You can see the silver birch (centre), heather with white flowers (top), euonymus (right), snowdrops appearing from the soil (bottom) and finally cyclamen leaves (left).

I also enjoy listening to the different bird song whilst walking round the park.

Do you have a park local to you? Does it have any lovely plants?