A Year in the Valley

It’s amazed me how there are still flowers in the watermeadow, and I certainly wasn’t expecting to make a new flower discovery.  This tiny pea flower is, I think, a marsh pea.  It has long oval pointed leaves and pea-like tendrils with flowers scrambling up the stem alternately.  It’s not supposed to be in flower now – it flowers May-July, but as our Bramley apple tree is in blossom again, so the Marsh Pea might be a bit confused.  I’m hoping it will establish itself and flourish, as we have only just discovered it hiding in the undergrowth, but it likes to be among taller plants.  It’s “very scattered” outside the Norfolk Broads, so not very common.