The park is always neat and tidy as there is a crew of volunteers who work with the council to maintain it. There are three 'neglected' areas in the park. One is a deliberate wildflower meadow which adjoins the swimming pool. One has a woodland glade feel and the third is a genuinely neglected strip of land adjacent to a path.
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| Overgrown flower bed. |
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| Woodland glade. In early spring it has cultivated daffodils, crocus and winter aconite. Now a sea of cow parsley. |
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| Spear thistle (one of my favourite plants) about to bloom in the neglected bed. |
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| Woodland glade. |
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| Later I walked by the Stevenage Brook along London Road. Parts of the very artificial banks are awash with hawkweed and ox-eye daisys. |
Hopefully the temperature will rise during the days ahead and I can shift my focus to invertebrates. I want to learn much more about them this year.
I particularly like bees and dragonflies, but they all look the same to me.
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