DAY 31 (6 MAY) – Alkanet (pentaglottis sempervirens) (Crondall)
The view from almost any country lane in Hampshire is a horizon of trees and a farmhouse, a field gently sloping towards you and a foreground of jumbled wild flowers.
Here some rapeseed has blown in to blend with the evergreen alkanet, a member of the forget-me-knot family. It was brought to England in the Middle Ages for the red dye yielded by its roots.
365 DAYS OF NATURE 