Thanks, Nemesis. I just pointed the camera - nature did the rest, as you say.
Here are some more late summer flowers.
There are some large patches of devil's-bit scabious in some of the damp areas but these photos don't do them them justice as the flowers are a beautiful deep purple.
The lovely eyebright is a little plant with tiny flowers but it's quite conspicuous at the moment, growing in clumps amongst the shorter grasses. It's partially parasitic on the roots of grasses.
The last plant is interesting botanically but disappointing photographically! It's an autumn gentian (called felwort in some books) and this is the first time that I've seen it. I understand that there's quite a lot of it at Newborough, Hugo, but I've not been there at the right time. I didn't discover this plant myself, as a friend told me where to look and even then I had trouble spotting the small group of plants. It needs full sun for the flowers to open and although I thought that it was pretty sunny yesterday evening, the plants obviously didn't agree - hence the dull photo. However, although the photo's dull it was still worth the search and as you say, Stephen, it makes life interesting.