Characterful old lion’s head beside a Cardiff street…
Cardiff is a very green city and alongside every street in the suburbs there are plants aplenty. These pictures were taken on a single long road a fortnight ago.
Of course the trees and shrubs have all moved on even more into spring since then…
Crab apple (Malus)
Last year’s leaves on a beech hedge (Fagus sylvatica)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Lime (Tilia cordata)
Cherry (Prunus) – long past blossoming
Elder flowers in bud (Sambucus nigra)
Forsythia (probably Forsythia x intermedia)
Hazel tree (Corylus, possibly Corylus avellana)
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta or more likely that British native crossed with the Spanish invader Hyacinthoides hispanica to create the hybrid Hyacinthoides x massartiana)
Lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria)
Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale)
Maple or sycamore (Acer)
Ivy on the maple or sycamore trunk
I think this is honeysuckle (Lonicera)
Last year’s ash keys still hang on…
Laurel in flower (Prunus laurocerasus)
More Forsythia
Yellow fumitory (Corydalis flavula) – grown in the UK as a garden plant, not native
That lion again…
Heart-shaped ivy leaves (Hedera helix)
Maybe I’ll walk along this street again later in the year and see how things have developed…
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