Morning, via Middle Lane and the Screwfix underpass. Afternoon, via Court Recreation Ground.
The East Street hollyhock, noticed from time to time, is still pushing ahead. It will be interesting to see how it does this year, after a good year last year. See, for example, reference 1.
The Screwfix whitebeam. Buds starting to swell, but it takes zoom on the original to make them visible.
Curious weathering of a front garden post. I feel sure I have posted a picture of this post before, but will I be able to find it? My first, not very serious effort, failed.
The best patch of dandelions that I passed on this occasion. In Court Recreation Ground.
While this stuff seemed to be all over the place.
Google Images says comfrey, aka Symphytum officinale. While the pictures offered at reference 2 look a bit different. I think I have had trouble sorting out the various members of the borage family before: perhaps they are into interbreeding and hybrids.
Copilot gets quite excited about the stuff, giving me, quite unprompted, a couple of screen fulls. Explaining, inter alia, that it featured in many herbal remedies for external use, but also contained enough toxins for its sale for oral use to be banned in some countries. I think I used to grow it on my allotment for conversion into fertilizer for peas and such like - although reference 3 suggests my memory may have simplified things a bit.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolleys-930-and-931.html.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphytum_officinale.
Reference 3: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=comfrey.
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