Lovely LEAVES

1 Holly Ilex

2 Common Crosswort (Cruciata laevipes)

3 European Thimbleweed (Anemone nemorosa)

4 Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

5 Snowdrop (Galanthus)

6 Lupin

7 Primrose

8 Oak (Quercus)

9 Apple tree

10 Yorkshire Fog

11 White Deadnettle.

12 Maple?

13 Underside of Fern showing spore cases.

14 Bursting into growth

15 Rowan

16 Japanese Maple

17 Begonia

18 European beech

19Tree fern

20 Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum)

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Its March already. Theres light at the end of the long tunnel we have been in. For March lets take a look at some of the different shapes and colours of the plant's power houses -THE LEAVES. Leaves are the food factories for the leaves trapping the suns ebergy making food from carbon dioxide and water.