Astrantia with a visiting fly
Astrantia major
Astrantia · Goodnestone · 1 June 2024
An astrantia with a small fly worked in among the true flowers at its centre. What reads as a single bloom is a tight cluster of tiny flowers ringed by papery pink bracts: the bracts do the advertising, and the real flowers are the modest dome in the middle, shallow enough that a short-tongued fly can drink from them. Masterwort is the old English name, from a time when it was grown as a medicinal herb rather than for the border.
Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.
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