Oswestry Wildlife
Some plants along the canal, August 2001
from the stretch between the Navigation Inn and the Queens Head, good pub walk...

Common Reed - the one used for thatching

Guelder Rose, a small tree, there are lots of these all along the canal full of berries in August

The lower of the two Aston Locks with the old lock-keepers hut. This is at least a mile from the nearest road, and only accessible by foot until this part of the canal is opened - so few relatively people have ever seen it.

Yellow Water-lily on the canal, and Clover next to it.

False Bulrush . . . . . . and Tufted Vetch

Ragwort by the canal and a field of Perennial Sow-thistle next to the towpath.

Birdsfoot Trefoil between the towpath and the canal.

john - vegweb@btinternet.com