This week’s photograph is a wild flower, Red Campion, which was growing in the woodland burial site where we interred my mother last week. It is just a small taste of how delightful a place this is.
Red Campion
Colney, Norwich; June 2015
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When I was a child there were campions in all the hedgerows, but they seem to have largely disappeared, which is a great shame. Agricultural chemicals I suppose.
Well there are still plenty of campions around Norfolk in the hedges and verges, as well as woods; both red and white varieties. But yes, no doubt agri-chemicals and loss of habitat are to blame for the general demise of wildflowers. Although what is good is that the verges of new road build are being sown with wildflowers — lots of primroses earlier in the year. And it is obviously a good year for foxgloves.