Droopy
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: Wildflowers are beautiful |
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I took my camera for a walk. Here are some of the flowers I found:
Silene vulgaris:
Lotus corniculatus:
Hesperis matronalis. They have a divine scent:
Platanthera bifolia is an orchid, it's scent comes out at night:
Buttercup field:
Conopodium majus, it doesn't look like much, but at the end of that flower stem is what we call ground nuts:
Vicca gracca, the most horrible weed, but a beautiful field flower:
Circium, a thistle with no thorns:
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum:
Some kind of Hieraticum. They look like dandelions, but are smaller and easier to get rid of:
White clover:
Wild Geranium, it's pretty:
The bluebells, Campanula rotundifolia:
I hope you liked the wildflower tour.
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cuatro-gatos
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What simple pleasures wildflowers are, and you even
knew the names!
Thanks for sharing your walk-a-bout.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Thaks, C-G.  Being an avid flower lover from childhood, I know the common Norwegian names to lots of wildflowers. Then I can easily find the scientific names. I like to include those, since some people's wildflowers are other people's garden flowers.
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I've dedicated part of my garden to wildflowers. They're not only lovely to look at but attract so much wildlife. I love the variety of these plants you find when you take a walk in the countryside and you've certainly got a profussion of pretties where you live Droopy. 
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Thanks Eileen, I know I'm extremely lucky. We've got so many nice flowers growing out there. The problem is I'm so used to seeing them that I really don't notice them anymore. The sides of the roads are covered in red and white clover, daisies, buttercups, crow feet and lots more, and then they just mow them all down. 
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Wonderful fotos of the wildflowers near you.
I especially liked the campanula-looking ones and the Hesperis matronalis which blows-in and seeds out. I am always sad to see it go. I get so many that I can easily cut boquets for home. That fragrence is to die for.
Thanks so much for taking and showing these. I like wildflowers alot.
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Netty
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I recognize most of those wild flowers because they grow here too. I don't know the scientific names though.
A Thistle without thorns? Sounds interesting! It has a pretty bloom too.
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It's fun to hear that they are wide spread. Most of them are horrible weeds in the garden, even the thornless thistle, but they are nice to see in the fields.
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tschnath
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What a wonderful walk you must have had Droopy. That geranium is just like the wild one I have in my yard. Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed!
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Oh those wildflowers! You are fortunate to have them all around you.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, I feel very fortunate to have them too. I only wish I could have a field full of them, but we can't while we live here.
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