Blogs on wild flowers

Wonderful wildflowers of Yorkshire

Today I went to a couple of Yorkshire Wildlife trust reserves looking at wild flowers, in particular native orchids and a...

Two Months On.

The wild flower meadow in our local recreation ground is still a beautiful sight. The cornflowers have finished and their...

New wild flower garden

Some of you may remember last year our old fruit cage was in danger of falling down , We were constantly mending holes in...

Wonderful wild flowers.

At the start of this year a new supermarket opened in my town, the planning consent included landscaping to part of the area...

Some views and wild flowers

The other day, I went for a walk up the little road, that passes the back of my garden, to see what wild flowers were there....

A walk which took us miles from anywhere .

Hello all, Had a lovely walk with my OH today and daughters dog you know the one I give back full of mud lol but not today...

Life of a Thistle

I thought it might be fun to track the Thistle from start to finish. So have a look... The wild Thistle growing in the field. Note...

A Walk on a Cloudy day !

Yesterday OH & I (do I sound like our Queen lol ) went for a lovely walk near where we live the coal tips have all been...

Flowering Dunes, and Sea Views.

During the warm weather, we went down by the sea, and I took photos of the wild flowers growing on the dunes. I'd forgotten...

_*The Meadow*_

Wild flowers and a few grasses sway in the breezes...It looks almost as I envisioned it. almost... I can claim no credit...

Wild Summer Flowers (Part Three)

We'll go up the river bank this time. There are many wild flowers growing along there. (so I'm sorry if the blog seems a...

Wild Summer Flowers (part two)

Here's my second blog on wild summer flowers, following on from the first one I wrote back in July. The lanes and river banks...

A visit to the field of dreams

A few weeks ago I was able to visit the wildflower meadow planted in Somerset this year and photographed in the newspaper...

Field of Dreams

I visited this wonderful garden that has been made on derelict land, which is now full of wild flowers. It is open to the...

Wild Summer Flowers (part one)

I think spring is the best season for wild flowers but there are also some nice ones flowering in the summer time. I'll...

Sea Holly

Recently I saw lots of sea holly- Eryngium maritimum- growing on dunes near here. I took some photos of it. I haven't seen...

Saturday morning walk

I really enjoyed Hywel's walk round his home area this week that I decided to take the camera the next walk we had. Hoping...

Scotland - North Coast

Last weekend was the 40th wedding anniversary for Moongrower and myself and so we took a long weekend to go wildlife watching...

lovely invasions

I read /heard about the dandelion invasions this year and we are no exception up here in Aberdeenshire. Have included a photo...

Meadow Buttercup

Meadow buttercup is a perennial weed. It is recorded up to 4,000 ft in Britain. It is characteristically found on grazed...

I was so excited yesterday ! :o)))

... because I saw an Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula :) I didn't see any last year, and happened to mention yesterday...

Beauty By The Pond...........

Went for a walk today which took me by the local pond.... it looked lovely with the sun shinning through it......... The...

Wild Spring Flowers

I love wild flowers and found some over the week end, and I thought I'd show some photos of them, although there was nothing...

A Farewell to Fish Hoek

Here are some more pictures of roadside flowers seen on my walks in Fish Hoek (June-September 2008) : In a vacant plot An...

My Wild Flower Meadow

Do u Rememer My Meadow In 2008? I Planted Native Cowslips & Some Daffodiles Summer loves to Lay & Roll in the...

The Wildflower Meadow

Corncockle, Clover, Cornflowers & Selfheal grew in the meadow this summer But since September its looked like this...

Wildflowers in bloom during our spring downunder.

This is a snapshot of various wildflowers that will be blooming now out in the wild-mainly in Western Australia where most...

Poppies We Dont Wear?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope U enjoy the next Photos as i took them with War Heroes in mind?? It was Armed Forces Awareness in Norfolk this week...

Wildflower of the week 3- Valerian-Valerianaceae

An ancient meedicinal herb, long been valued around the world Persian, Chinese and Nordic herbalists used the roots. Whilst...

A Walk on the Wild Side

For years I travelled up and down the A 47 to work , always at this time of the year I would glance across the fields and...

Wildflower of the week 2....Feverfew- Chrysanthemum parthenium

Reclassed as Tanacetum parthernium, feverfew was also once known as Flirtwort. From the daisy family very similar to...

The English Countryside in May

I've been wandering around Herefordshire with my camera this month taking lots of pictures of the countryside and I thought...

Wild Flowers

Went to the Lakes for the weekend and had a smashing time,the weather was perfect so obviously photography was priority No...

Wildflower of the week- Borago Officinalis

Since starting gardening and finding a whole new world and a new lease of life. I have become particuarly interested in the...

Pretty Wild !

Today i walked around My Wild Area Of My Garden & took some Pics so i thought u mite like to see them ??? Bedstraw &...

A walk in the wood.

Yesterday, being so nice, a friend and I decided to go for a walk in the local wood and it's surrounding area. The first...

My Baby WildFlowers

Last Summer "2008" I found this Lovely Wildflower"Phacelia"in My Garden! So i took some Seeds & now have...

SNOWDROPS AT COLESBOURNE PARK

Hi everyone, I thought I would tell you all about mine and Christophers day out at Colesbourne Park to see the Snowdrops. We...

countryside

there isnt much happening in grdens at the moment, exceptspritzhenrys, so ive got a few photos from the countryside near...

Millennium Seed Bank funding

Attempting to avoid the front page stories of economic gloom I found an article in The Times on Thursday which was even more...

Blackberry-eating

Now that the weather has changed, just thought I would share this poem by Galway Kinnell. I love blackberries (we actually...

Got My for-get-me-nots....

well iv dug up 40 of them 2day from my Neighbours garden:) Shes a lovely little lady&has given me many plants2help me...

Wildflowers are in decline.

Have you got space at the edges of your garden or in borders for some wild flowers? I have some wild mallow seed, see a ...