Some City' Surprises

We decided to pop up to the City of London to see how the Rusty-Back Fern, that grows on a Wall beside All Hallows-on-the-Wall (on London Wall), is doing (the only place we have ever knowingly seen in growing).

We went via the St Mary Aldermanbury' Garden (Grid Reference TQ3281) and were Super-Pleased that we did.

We would have been happy enough with seeing some Goldfinches viz.

and a Blackbird, a Wood Pigeon, a Robin and Blue Tits viz.

But almost immediately, we noticed something familiar (and a favourite of ours) growing in the Moss, namely Rue-Leaved Saxifrage viz.

There is a Healthy Population and nicely Spread Around. Yippee.

And then we spotted something else that seemed familiar. Might it be Pink-Headed Persicaria we wondered viz.

Yup: we reckon so. A Handful of Plants. But how did they get there? Introduced or Self Seeded. The consensus would be, Self Seeded. Another Yippee.

We also noticed that an Orange Hawkweed seems to have been recently in flower viz.

And there were also a handful of Mexican Fleabane (we assume Self Seeded) flowers to be seen too viz.

Oh: and before we forget. We did get to All Hallows-on-the-Wall (Grid Reference TQ3281) and the Rusty-Back Fern is doing pretty-much OK viz.

We also spotted a Dusty looking Wall-Rue growing on a low Wall beside the Pavement viz.