Tuesday 3 September 2019

White Ramping-fumitory


This is White Ramping-fumitory.  The only records of this wild flower on Mull are here at Treshnish.

Prasad has nurtured and protected the tender plants since he first recorded it in May 2014. I think it is perfectly safe now!   Seen here growing rampantly where it has self-seeded - safely away from sheep and rabbits - in our veg garden.

The Aurora season has started.  Farmer alerted me to a bright sky on Saturday night, and I set the camera up.  Unfortunately there was a lot of cloud on the horizon so we didn't get the amazing activity they photographed on Orkney and Shetland.  But as the days get shorter, it was good to feel the night skies were active again, and of course overhead the stars were wonderful!