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In addition to the milfoil (or yarrow) and its relatives, pleasant white colour in drier meadows comes from the hoary alison (Berteroa incana). It differs from the other flowering plants by its greyish-green overall colour; the whole plant is a little woody and rough, somehow stiff. But it doesn’t last as well in a vase as might be thought from its strength, at the flowerheads the stalks are thin and weak and droop quickly.

Until October we can meet the robin (Erithacus rubecula) going about its business – a passerine who arrives here quite early and leaves late. It is easily recognized from its rusty-red throat and breast, the lower parts are greyish-white. The robin doesn’t sing very much now, but because it keeps near the ground, on bushes and trees, in copses and on the ground too, mushroom and berry pickers in mixed spruce forests are sure to see it.