I’ve long pondered the word “Hogshaw”, which describes a small area of Buxton bisected by a tributary of the River Wye. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Flowerheads vary from a ghostly green-white through to deep rose.’ Photograph: Mark CockerBroad-leaved helleborine is a scarce and beautiful flower. Individual flowerheads vary from a ghostly green-white through to deep rose, but all possess, centred in a cup-shaped inner lip, a bowl of dark-flecked lipstick pink. Just across the fence is a tumulus of Buxton’s historic waste, apparently deep with ancient hoards of asbestos. With its decommissioning as a tip, the whole site has flourished, with hazy stands of willowherb and sunshine carpets of ragwort.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2020 04:31 UTC