Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: montbretia

From Carn Brae to Carn Marth, near Redruth. Between 300 and 150 years ago this was one of the most industrialized places on the Planet. You wouldn't know it now! (Although one old chimney-stack is still just visible in the valley to the right).

It is a non-native pest as it crowds out the native species but it is so pretty and bright that it is easy to forgive ... almost!

The day was sunny but a little hazy off the sea.

Half accident (in that it was horriblly unfocused), and half rescued in editing to make it tolerable. I eventually decided I liked the slightly hazy effect so here it is, after 18 months of dilly-dallying (or is it shilly-shallying?)! Shasta daisies and montbretia and a yellow interloper (teasel?) Camp Cameron: the US army's camp in WWII for their coloured personnel, it being thought best to keep them out of the way in isolation form the Brits in case they should frighten the horses (or something). As I've mentioned before; boxer Joe Louis was stationed here for what he recalled as the most boring time of his life. There is absolutely NOTHING left of this camp. When fully operational it covered most of the St Agnes Headland. For Pam.

Beautiful plant but an invasive pest as it stifles native flora. Near St Agnes Head. On the site of Camp Cameron, where black US service personnel were placed during World War II, presumably so as not to frighten the natives in the more populous parts of the country. Boxer Joe Louis was stationed here and described it as the most boring two years of his life! For Pam.

St Agnes coast. Montbretia running rampant!

View from Carn Marth to Carrick Roads (Falmouth Docks just about visible), Cornwall. Yes, there is a fence in there! Photo from 2011, first posted on ipernity 2016. Montbretia and heather in the foreground.

Near Penberth Cove. The montbretia is lovely but a non-native invasive species - as is the bracken, introduced as fodder by the Romans (but then I suppose we all are when one comes to stop and think about it!)

On the site of Camp Cameron, the US Army's base in England for black service personnel in WWII, suitably distant from main centres of population. The thinking probably was that 1000s of black servicemen would frighten the natives. OK to send them to fight and die though! Nothing whatsoever remains of this camp! Joe Louis wrote that he spent the most boring few years of his life here! He probably wasn't a fan of shasta daisies!

Only the fence posts survive but it'll do for me! Gurnard's Head, Zennor, Cornwall. With montbretia. The South West Peninsula Coast Path.