I felt like having a real explore this day. It was sunny as can be, with ultra blue sky, and chirpy, cheery birds. I hadn't been to the secret little woodland in a long time - you can have a real clamber about as it is partly on a hill, with so many layers of wildly different trees, shrubs, flowers, really thickly built up - like another world, and yet you are still in London. This is where I would take anyone who had negative ideas about London - to show how it can really be!
This curious looking flower caught my eye on an exploration of SW London woodland a year or so ago. Its petals are chequered. Recently, I visited the same site, excited to find it had sprung up once again. I read up about this flower: the fritallary; it is actually incredibly rare - the UK's 'most exotic flower'. More thrillingly, where they exist, they are likely to have grown for centuries. Yet they can be easily destroyed in one simple ploughing. There were but three or four examples of the flower around in a space of no more than two or three square feet. To be around these flowers feels like a precious secret. That they're still here today shows how nature always finds a way; nature is tough. I felt like having a real explore this day. It was sunny as can be, with ultra blue sky, and chirpy, cheery birds. I hadn't been to the secret little woodland in a long time - you can have a real clamber about as it is partly on a hill, with so many layers of wildly different trees, shrubs, flowers, really thickly built up - like another world, and yet you are still in London. This is where I would take anyone who had negative ideas about London - to show how it can really be! I delighted in the different sights and textures of various tree bark. Nature fascinates me like nothing else - immersing myself in it like this is my calm and my fun and my antidote to so many things in loud, demanding, fast-paced life. We've got to treasure and preserve our green open spaces.
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