Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Green Edge', Close up showing the spiky texture.

Globe thistle, Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue', close up with Honey Bee.

Cardoon, Cynara cardunculus. One head in full flower and one opening. Flowers are tiny purple strands surrounded by stiff green purple calyxes.

Porcupine tomato, Solanum pyracanthum, Close cropped view of a dying brown leaf with narrow orange spikes,

Mediterranean spurge, Euphorbia characias wulfenii, Top close view of 2 unfurling flowerheads over whorls of grey green leaves,

Mediterranean spurge, Euphorbia characias wulfenii, Top close view of unfurling flowerhead over a whorl of grey green leaves.

Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra, Close cropped side view of several fluffy sedheads against black, one raised higher above the others.

Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra, Side view of several fluffy sedheads against black, one raised higher above the others.

Sea holly, Eryngium planum, Close view of one blue spikey flower with yellow tipped stamens, A honey bee is collecting pollen.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinglow', Close up of flowers with mauve coloured petals and spiky texture.

Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Green Edge', Close up showing the spiky texture.

Globe thistle, Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue', close up with Honey Bee.

Cardoon, Cynara cardunculus. One head in full flower and one opening. Flowers are tiny purple strands surrounded by stiff green purple calyxes.

Porcupine tomato, Solanum pyracanthum, Close cropped view of a dying brown leaf with narrow orange spikes,

Mediterranean spurge, Euphorbia characias wulfenii, Top close view of 2 unfurling flowerheads over whorls of grey green leaves,

Mediterranean spurge, Euphorbia characias wulfenii, Top close view of unfurling flowerhead over a whorl of grey green leaves.

Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra, Close cropped side view of several fluffy sedheads against black, one raised higher above the others.

Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra, Side view of several fluffy sedheads against black, one raised higher above the others.

Sea holly, Eryngium planum, Close view of one blue spikey flower with yellow tipped stamens, A honey bee is collecting pollen.

Beech, Fagus sylvatica.

Looking up into branches of Beech trees in winter against blue sky.

Looking up into branches of Beech trees in winter against blue sky.

Beech trees in winter silhouetted against pale blue sky.

View upwards into bare branches of winter canopy of Beech trees against pale blue sky.

View upwards into bare branches of winter canopy of Beech trees against pale blue sky.

View upwards into bare branches of winter canopy of Beech trees against pale blue sky.

Close cropped shot of cross curved into the trunk of a Beech tree.