Plants - Late Winter

Snowdrops

By the end of January the green shoots of our earliest flowering plants have started to bust forth with their beautiful white flower heads. It’s OK to pick the variegated ones you may find in the garden but leave the wild growing ones to grow and spread beneath the bare boughs of their common woodland habitat
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Just inside the Ely10 area (a ten mile radius of Ely) at Farthing Drove between Shippea Hill Station railway station and Lakenheath village (TL 683 837 or N+52 25' 33" E+0 28' 28"). On the South bank of the River Great Ouse at the end of Willow Walk in Ely, follow the footpath downstream under the railway bridge and look across the water (TL 548 799 or N+52 23' 44" E+0 16' 28")

Bluebells

By February the clumps of Bluebell leaves can be found in woodlands. Make a note of where you find them so that you can return in May and see the pastel blue flowerheads glimmering in the spring sunshine
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Alder
Alder catkins appear during the late winter and carry pollen. They droop and sway in the wind, viewed up close they are intricate and beautiful making a great subject for close up photography or framing a wintery composition
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Not the most glamorous location, but in the verge opposite the Ely Sailing Club on Prickwillow Road (TL 553 809 or N+52 24' 18" E+0 16' 52")