On this roadside colours have changed. It is no longer sallow grey and dry yellow. Many tiny blue stalks appear from the morning fog. ...

Like everywhere in Dordogne clovers abound. There are about twenty different species, white, pink or yellow. Hop Trefoil ( Trifolium campes...

Little blue flowers grow between the taller grasses on a roadside. Harebell ( Campanula rotundifolia ) begins to flower at the end of summ...

The weather is really hot, the sun burns and scorches, plants turn yellow and brown. Here a 'Mountain Needle Sunrose' ( Fu...

Lamarck's Bedstraw (G alium divaricatum ) is too subtle to be seen easily. You look through a cloud of thin stems and very tiny fruits ...

Some cyclopic objects look at us. They are petals fallen from a Spotted Rockrose ( Tuberaria guttata ). It is a transient flowe...

This is a very tiny vetch, after flowering it is nearly invisible, unless you really look for it in a calcareous meadow. Many-seeded Slende...