An ancient woodland in spring

LAST weekend saw us take a ramble around a local favourite woodland owned by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.  They are doing a great job with their limited resources and the woodland flora is benefiting.  However I suspect that even more coppicing would be beneficial.  Anyway here are some of my pics:

Orange tip butterfly over bluebells

Cuckoo flowers in adjacent meadow

Bluebells

Early purple orchid

Lesser Celandine

False-oxlip (a cross between a cowslip and primroses)

 Beautifully laid hedge on woodland edge

Yellow archangel

Wood anemone

 Wood spurge

 

Spot the bee

Bluebells and sunshine

Bluebell path

Woodruff

 

Cuckoopint

View from the woodland edge