April 16, 2024: Hepatica
Drive past the bakery in Södra Sandby and buy cookies for the coffee. The parking lot for Askebacken has received a different coating. The path into the forest is wet. Bushy as usual in the forest. Along the path, wood anemones bloom. A few isolated yellow anemones have appeared. Looking for hepatica. We find some stocks. The feeling is that they become fewer and fewer every year. Maybe suffocated by all the trees lying around? The path to the stile out to the pasture in the north is blocked by fallen tree trunks. A common toothwort blooms at the opening by the stream. Follow the path to the east until we reach the stile. Finding a few hepatica there this year too. Back to the opening with the stream, ramsons leaves and wood anemones. Set us down on a tree trunk next to the stream with the coffee. The stream ripples beautifully. A butterfly dances in front of us on the way back to the parking lot.

April 10, 2023: Hepatica
Drive to Linneskogen along the road between SJöbo and Hörby. Not much blooming, last visit offered a splendor of spring flowers. Must be late this year. Therefore drive on to Askebacken. Not much bloom here either. Some hepatica line the path. Many seem to be bitten off, never seen it before. Anyone running out of food? Passes the ramson field. Take a right towards a stile. Usually takes the path straight on onto the field. Not much bloom either. Many fallen trees. Returning to the creek. HHave our Easter coffee with Easter sweets. A wood anemone is visited by a bee.

April 18, 2022: Hepatica
Hoping for a mix of flowers. At the parking lot a lot of wood anemone. Walking the path. Bordered by mostly wood anemone, also yellow anemone have started to emerge A lot of hepatica are blooming beautifully. Walks across the stile into the pasture. A few tufts of wood and yellow anemones. A number of trees that have fallen on the pasture. The forest is already bushy. Many fallen trees that are sawn off. It's Easter. We have coffee and Easter eggs with sweets. Sitting down by the stream that runs through the forest. Rippling sound and nice weather. Goes back with the scent of ramsons. Takes time before it blooms. On the path, lungwort and golden-saxifrage bloom.

March 31, 2021: Hepatica
Drive as usual from Löberöd towards Hörby. Left in Lyby. Shortly after a power line, the narrow gravel road goes north to Askebacken nature reserve. At the reserve, the parking is the same. A path goes through the forest, all fallen trees that lay over the path last year have been cleared away. We are later this year, there are more hepatice. As before, it is the first hepatica for this year that we want to see. First see a wood anemone. Then a stock of hepatica, then here and there. Past the place with ramson leaves. Reach the the small stream. Before heading out into the fields, we follow the path to the right. Away to another stile. A few hepatica bloom along the path and by the stile. Walk back to the small stream. Here is a tree trunk made for coffee. Hepatica bloom on the root overturning. After coffee we climb the stile to the fields. A yellow anemone, many Star-of-Bethlehem. A bee visits a wood anemone. Turns when it gets too wet.

March 19, 2020: Hepatica
Drive as like last visit. Drive from Löberöd towards Hörby. Heading west in Lyby towards Fogdarp. Shortly after a power line, a narrow dirt road goes north to the Askebacken nature reserve. At the reserve is a parking. A path goes through the forest. It is not easily accessible. Trees lie all over it. I have been ill, do not feel the best. Hard on climbing. Lots of bush in the forest. Doesn't seem to be much of the Hepatica we saw at the last visit. But some lighten up the forest. A lot of leaves of ramson. Yellow Anemone and wood anemone have begun to bloom. Goes across the stile to the pasture. There are yellow Star-of-Bethlehem. A large bird of prey sits in a tree. Sitting down on a tree trunk for coffee. Now the sun is shining. Wandering around the pasture in search of something blooming. Goes back towards the car. See more hepatica, beautiful. Not in the quantities that were at the last visit. Still a good start to spring excursions.

April 1, 2016 Hepatica
Hepatica times. Take the road from Löberöd to Hörby. Take west in Lyby against Fogdarp. Shortly after a power line is a narrow gravel road north to Askebacken nature reserve. At the reserve is a parking.

A path through the forest. Many fallen trees. Leaving the trail and walk in the woods hunting hepatica. There, a single. Down a slope. Come to wild garlic.

Up to the path again. Wood anemones on the way to bloom. Suddenly an area of ​​hepatica. Stretching in the sun. The trail continues through wild garlic. Disappears from among trees. Ends at a stile to pasture.

Adjacent is the transmission line. Beneath is a grassland. Access forbidden in the summer time. Must be a return when meadow flowers begins.

Return with a detour into the woods. Brushy, crawling under tree trunk. Stretches me in the calf. Coffee on a tree trunk. Among hepatica.

Moving on through the forest. Pezizales? Back in the parking lot. A dog barks at a farm. Drive. A dog barks, rushes out from behind the car.

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