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Close up of flowers

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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    I'm going to have to get one @Slow-worm the flowers look so good, I think it was one of @Papi Jo plants that caught my eye.

    Those are a riot of colour @rowlandscastle444 very nice indeed.
  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812


    Any ideas? Upper moorlands, ignore the thistles and look at the ferny type leaf up the back there.
    Please let it be some ultra rare £1m flower so I can retire.......
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    Cardamine pratensis aka Cuckoo Flower, Milkmaids. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    Thankyou, that's interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamine_pratensis
    Supposedly named so as it flowers with the arrival of the Cuckoo. Unless it was flowering 4 weeks ago that's incorrect.
    Part of the Brassica family.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It was common in the damp meadows of my Suffolk childhood … not so common now as more meadows are treated with fertilisers and herbicides … but not rare … sorry to disappoint… you’ll have to keep working. 

    I’d just point out that this thread is for close up images of plants more for their aesthetic interest rather than identification. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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