Where the bee sucks ...
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Where the bee sucks ...
Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 29 Apr 2006
A bumble bee gathers nectar from flowers (almost certainly comfrey*) in the grounds of the former research site at North Lee, Terrick. *This info. from Penny Mayes http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile.php?u=93 Possibly a comfrey although the leaves look a bit round... http://www.wildflowersofstrathclydepark.org.uk/Comfrey.htm http://www.allnatural.net/herbpages/comfrey.shtml The flowers can be white pink or blue - sometimes all three on the same plant. Lovely stuff - hens like to eat it and it makes an excellent liquid compost if you just pile it into a bucket. Also known as knit-bone.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.771671
Longitude
-0.792708