Purple colours of spring in Sussex, UK: Purple toothwort and Alder buds

 Lathraea clandestina is a parasitic plant with no green leaves and lives underground, emerging only to flower.  More info' at http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662042-1

It is common in damp places in Sussex such as here at Wakehurst Place on 29 February 2020.

Purple toothwort centre picture.  Click to expand. 

Purple Alder buds

Alder tree

 Toothwort by the lake,

 Such is the flooding that a mole burrow has become a spring.