Spring in the ancient oak, ash, beech and hornbeam woodlands of the North Downs is announced by wood anemones, sweet violets and celandine but quickly followed by a flurry of others. Moschatel, colloquially known as townhall clock or five-faced bishop is a diminutive and uncommon plant found in small colonies amongst the much showier swathes of bluebells and spikes of yellow archangel. A small number of toothwort are emerging in an old hazel coppice; these are parasitic plants, lack chlorophyll and look sickly and dangerous. The ancient woodlands are at their best in early Spring just as the fresh green leaves appear on the trees; and none hereabouts is complete without an abandoned, burnt out car.
Moschatel
Toothwort under hazel coppice
Cowslip
Herb-robert 
Goldilocks buttercup 
Lady’s smock or cuckooflower 
Lesser celandine 
Wild strawberry 
Yellow archangel
Bluebell woodland 
Bluebells, hazel coppice and oak standards 
Evening bluebells
Beech coming into leaf 
Old yew tree 
Bird cherry lighting up an old Scot’s pine woodland 
Ash embrace
Old wreck of the woods