Went for a walk today and photographed some of our native wildflowers, which I thought some folks might be interested in.
For context, this is along the border of a hazel wood which has recently been fenced off from sheep grazing, so it's starting to become more overgrown and we're getting things like young trees beginning to establish as well, now that they're no longer being munched. We have:
Birdsfoot Trefoil, Blackthorn (sloes!), Common Selfheal, Forget-me-not, Lady's Bedstraw, Lesser Spearwort, Marsh Lousewort, Sheep's Sorrel, Spotted Orchid, Valerian, Water Mint (smells very minty!), Foxglove,
by Tam_The_Third
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wonderful to see.
I’ve travelled a good portion of the world, and for all the doomsaying and whining that we like to do, the beauty and access to our gorgeous landscapes we have genuinely moves my heart at times.
We’re blessed to live in a country that not only has soft, rolling green hills and beautiful temperate rainforests, but is also *safe* to explore. No dangerous, venomous wild animals (other than those from Lurgan), no major natural disasters, all right on our doorstep.
I’ve really grown to love our wee island nation.
Great pics. I’m lucky to have a lot of these in my garden.
nice i like the wild flowers and stuff but know hardly any of their names and then forget
pretty cool you can take a pic and just ask google and it tells you now
always loved these boyos – thought they are pretty the way they flower in a halo then that dies back and the flowering halo moves up. now i know its Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) (though i took the shot a year or 2 ago and forgot that and had to ask google lens again ><
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Awh gorjus. I was over in southampton there for a wedding and they were saying they hadnt had proper rain in ages. The ground was brown, yellow grass and all wilted flowers.
We’re lucky with the rain like, it makes everything so green.
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