Visit the field behind the Mundy Fields now to see
great drifts of golden buttercups and snowy white pignut.
Pignut is an umbellifer like hogweed and cow parsley but much smaller.
Check the wiry stem leaves to confirm it is Pignut.
There are other wild flowers in this field too. The pink tinge is sorrel.
And there are clumps of Birdsfoot Trefoil.
Also known as 'eggs and bacon' or 'tom thumb' OR 'granny's toenails' ! It's the foodplant for caterpillars of the common blue butterfly and the flowers are a great nectar supply for insects of all sorts.
It's the field with Allan Burberry's memorial seat beneath the red horse chestnut tree, now in bloom, recovering from compaction and erosion by bovine feet.
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