faces of a catkin...

lovely and interesting pictures!! fascinating plants aren't they?

Lovely Surreylad - great pictures and detail

Amazing pics SL!!!!!!!! :)

Very good pics, its funny how much more notice we take when a camera is in ones hands...

Fantastic Surrey, perfectly documented :)

Thanks for that Slad..it is amazing to see them in such detail! :)

Just brill , Surrie , such detail , added to faves !

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments :-))
They are Sticki :-)
very true Lincslass :-)

thanks Driad that's very kind of you :-)

Excellent shots there!

thanks Sheilar :-)

What a beautiful document on Mr Catkin :)

I was taking photos of them on Tuesday SL, nearly slipped down a bank into the river and then got attacked by some strange seeds ~ the size of a conker but very prickly, I must have had 20 or 30 of them stuck to me.

Thanks Katarina :-))

the things we do to get a photo Sticki :-)) did you find out what the seeds were in the end?

no i have no idea!! they were covered in some sort of hooks!!

how odd, was there any water grasses or reeds there it could be something like that..

i dont think there were water grasses. i can put a picture of them on ~ not very beautiful!

i'd like to see them please thanks :-)

its a dreadful photo, im wondering if its a thistle head??? be on in a couple of seconds.

ok :-)

I feel a bit like those last anthers aswell today lol.
Brilliant photos Surreylad. I love to see Catkins. They're a sure sign of spring, and you've done well to capture them in all those different stages :o)

Lol Hywel, thanks :-))

Did Sticki get attacked by teasles or burrs , perhaps ?

it was burdock seed heads Driad :-))

I'm still pulling those vicious hooks out!

i though 1 was bad enough a last year....

There were masses of them.

i took my kids across a field to the Runnymede park last autumn and i had one in my trouser leg, that was bad enough, but loads like yours must have been a nightmare...

Couldn't believe it!

i bet ...

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