...a charming and cheerful thread...to warm the cockles of one's heart..lol..
..I do miss the Cornish hedgerow and coastal flowers.... in particular any Cornish hedge in May with those pink Campions and all else that goes with them usually...
also...the prostrate white campion...Silene uniflora..which is ubiquitous around the coast there....I grow the larger version 'Robin Whitebreast'... which I enjoy very much...
I had to think long and hard about this. So many spring to mind even if I just think about locally. We have harebells and orchids on the chalk slopes here but my favourite has to be from long ago in Somerset and that's wild daffodils in the hedgerows of the first farm I worked on.
I like going for walks and seeing wildflowers in hedge rows although many are probably weeds which I wouldn't want in my garden and I can only name but a few... . buttercups and daisy's spring to mind...
I like red clover and red campion and keep most of the ones that appear in the garden. I also like red/pink valerian and orpine if they count as wild and fox and cubs is another nice one
I haver never ever seen so many bees this summer use it for pollen collecting.
Dozens each day at the same time for months on end. The bees do visit ,of course other flowers, but they seem to prefer these blue flowers more than any other.
No other insect AKA pests has been seen. No watering or dead heading needed or staking. A really good doer .
The bee's efforts have now provided me with hundreds of self sown seedlings..
The the way they open from the base upwards every few days, means each stem lasts for months.
It has converted me to be its guardian in my garden. I also intend to scatter seed next year along the village paths by walls where it originated in the first place in my location.
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...a charming and cheerful thread...to warm the cockles of one's heart..lol..
..I do miss the Cornish hedgerow and coastal flowers.... in particular any Cornish hedge in May with those pink Campions and all else that goes with them usually...
also...the prostrate white campion...Silene uniflora..which is ubiquitous around the coast there....I grow the larger version 'Robin Whitebreast'... which I enjoy very much...
Cowslips and bluebells (English not Spanish) I associate them with my favourite times of the year.
I also love foxgloves, primulas and bluebells but really like clover and so do the bees
A good collection.
Traveller's Joy, I love a good thug
Bit doubtful about the freesias though
Spindle berries are good this year.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Snowdrops and snake head fritillary are so beautiful, but also heather and forever flowering gorse are great for the bees around here.
I had to think long and hard about this. So many spring to mind even if I just think about locally. We have harebells and orchids on the chalk slopes here but my favourite has to be from long ago in Somerset and that's wild daffodils in the hedgerows of the first farm I worked on.
I like going for walks and seeing wildflowers in hedge rows although many are probably weeds which I wouldn't want in my garden and I can only name but a few... . buttercups and daisy's spring to mind...
poppies in cornfields and the moon daisies that seem to thrive next to busy roads
I like red clover and red campion and keep most of the ones that appear in the garden. I also like red/pink valerian and orpine if they count as wild and fox and cubs is another nice one
Toadflax .
I haver never ever seen so many bees this summer use it for pollen collecting.
Dozens each day at the same time for months on end. The bees do visit ,of course other flowers, but they seem to prefer these blue flowers more than any other.
No other insect AKA pests has been seen. No watering or dead heading needed or staking. A really good doer .
The bee's efforts have now provided me with hundreds of self sown seedlings..
The the way they open from the base upwards every few days, means each stem lasts for months.
It has converted me to be its guardian in my garden. I also intend to scatter seed next year along the village paths by walls where it originated in the first place in my location.