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Post by balc2 on Apr 28, 2023 20:35:01 GMT
We all love our garden plants but I think we shouldn't forget our "humble" wildflowers (a.k.a. weeds, well some of them!)
Just this morning I was walking down a street where one side is housing but the other side is a wild meadow. I crossed it on many occasions but I've never stopped to admire the wildflowers growing in the grass.
There is a drainage ditch that separates it from the road & there is a long line of Cowslips growing along its length, though they get no moisture from it. As I've never gone close to them before I thought I would cross over & take some photos. Here are the results:
This one shows a "Cowslip meadow"! I have never seen so many 1,000s of these plants in one place before!
 
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Post by balc2 on Apr 28, 2023 20:41:40 GMT
Last Wednesday was a nice day here & when I brought our granddaughter home from school we stayed outside & she wanted to take a picture of me with a Dandelion & a Daisy she had put in the pocket of the small jacket I was wearing. 
She also insisted I take a photo of her hands in a patch of daisies growing in the grass outside our balcony:
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Post by grindle on Apr 29, 2023 3:59:22 GMT
lovely photos balc2 cowslips are such pretty flowers especially when they are en masse like that |
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Post by Cherry on Apr 29, 2023 8:40:55 GMT
balc2 they are lovely treasures.
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Post by seaburn on Apr 29, 2023 11:21:43 GMT
cowslips are a favourite of mine and our roadside verges are awash with them. I have a lovely clump of dandelions that fit in so well with the border and are such good insect attractors that I leave them. The clocks are left but before they disperse I take them, cut of the papus and pop the seeds on the bird table.
I have include a few other wild flowers in the beds.
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Post by balc2 on Apr 29, 2023 15:01:20 GMT
We have several different wildflowers growing in our patch of grass outside the balcony. Apart from Dandelions & Daisies there are also Speedwell & a pretty pink & white Bindweed that looks lovely when the grass is dormant during hot dry spells in the summer. I don't know a name for it but it's not the big white flowered one that smothers all it climbs over. Though I must admit they do look lovely (the flowers, I mean!) Alongside our flat these is a grassy area that isn't fenced in but, until the council gardeners come along, is full of wild flowers.It's actually quite pretty until the mowers cut them all down.  I thought I had a picture I took a few weeks ago but if I did take a photo I can no longer find it.
P.S. I did a search for the pink & white Bindweed & apparently it's called 'Meadow Bindweed'.
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Post by balc2 on May 21, 2023 19:59:26 GMT
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Post by Cherry on May 22, 2023 9:25:52 GMT
You are really into wildflowers now balc2. I love the Gowans that are out now. These are really plentiful in Scotland. |
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Post by balc2 on May 22, 2023 14:02:24 GMT
You are really into wildflowers now balc2 . I love the Gowans that are out now. These are really plentiful in Scotland. I've always seen them around & have looked at some more or less close up but until I came across this thread I'd rarely taken photos of them.
I had to look up the word "Gowans", Cherry, as I didn't know they were the common lawn daisies which are so common here! In our "lawn" (the patch of grass outside of our balcony) also has lots.
I tell our niece that my brothers & I used to pick daisies when we went to the big park with our parents when we were kids so that Mum could make us daisy chains!
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I thought I had a picture I took a few weeks ago but if I did take a photo I can no longer find it. 
