Sea pinks

Sea pinks or thrift on the wee tidal island of Eilean Trenach off Port Ramsay on the Isle of Lismore.

Pitcher plants

We’re up in Glasgow for a couple of nights and visited the Botanics this afternoon. These pitcher plants are in the collection in the Kibble Palce.

Primroses (Primula vulgaris)

A wee clump of primroses on the Taynish National Nature Reserve in Knapdale this weekend.

Lichen on larch

Larch trees in Argyll are festooned with pale green lichens in the winter. This was photographed on Sunday near Dalavich.

Leaf litter mosaic

From my walk around Loch Barnluasgan yesterday.

Barnluasgan reed bed

Phragmites australis in the winter light at Loch Barnluasgan in Knapdale this afternoon.

Red

More eye candy from Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens.

Pink

From the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens.

Crocosmia II

I like these flowers and the weird angles from which they can be shot.

Crocosmia I

Squadrons of attack flowers. Watch out!