Industrial Estate Nature

I had to take my car for an MOT today and so went to our local garage on an industrial park. It was a nice day so I decided to go out and have a look around to see what I could see.

It was quite amazing that it about 15 minutes of ambling around just how much was around.

Apart from the usual Dandelions Taraxacum officinale, Daisies Bellis perennis, Hawthorns Crategus monogyna, and (what I recognise almost instantly like an old friend) Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea, I also saw Wild Pear Pyrus communis.  There were some areas which seemed to be cultivated too, and were several plants in these beds, one of which looked as though it might be Sea-Buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides, some rosehips, and a number of shrubs with white berries.  Now these ones with white berries were in the area where there was an actual bedding area.  So these may well be cultivated plants rather than wild ones.

Wild Pear

Rosehip

Sea-Buckthorn

Unknown (to me at least) plant with white fruit

I did feel a bit foolish looking around an industrial estate looking at plants and taking photos, but it takes all sorts and I am trying to be an Amateur Naturalist....