I think it’s the last weekend for Jude’s Wildflower theme and I found these four simple pretties while I was walking the dogs today, so I thought I’d share them.
You can join in and or see some other entries here!
Late Spring Wildflowers
Category: Flowers
Six Word Saturday
Perfumed blue haze under the wisteria
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Bokeh of daisies
like tiny white tinkerbells
through the rowan leaves
A Plant in the Post
What constitutes a wild flower? Among Jude’s definitions are ones that haven’t been planted. I totally admire the tenacity of plants that burst up between rocks, through tiny gaps in paving stones and I’ve even seen Buddleia growing roof on guttering, three floors up. So, wild Campanula does grow in the UK, but this is an escapee, a seed deposited by the wind perhaps, that managed to attach itself to a minute grain of earthy material to help it germinate. I think the spot it’s chosen, attached to a container for things going on a journey, is a perfect foil for its wild spirit, do you agree?
The theme for Jude’s Garden Challenge this month is wild flowers, why not join in?
https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/garden-photography-solomons-seal/
Very Wild Flowers
Jude invites us to share images of wild flowers for the month of May, and this one is about as wild as you can get. Luckily she doesn’t seem to say that they can’t be exotic, because this one was taken on the banks of Kinabatanga river in Borneo.
I don’t know what it is, it looks quite like a streptocarpus, but I think they originate in South Africa? Visit Jude to join her Garden Challenge, which has a different them each month.
Six Word Saturday
Three shades of funky, Granny’s Bonnets.
May, wild flowers
May 1st, and time for a new garden challenge them from Jude. This month its wild flowers, this is what she says.
‘This month i want to see wild flowers found in the hedgerows, woodlands, farmland, meadows, by the coast, up a mountain, on a heath and even in your own garden. Basically plants that haven’t been planted, but occur naturally, although specifically planted wild flower meadows can be included. Wild flowers provide food for humans and wildlife and are usually hardy, resilient and well adapted to the climate and soils, and yes, sadly often referred to as weeds.’
So my first entry is this sea thrift, it’s one of my favourites, I love how it thrives on virtually no soil, clinging tenaciously to rocks, its deceptively delicate flowers reaching for the sun.
If you’d like to join in this month, visit Jude’s garden challenge page to find out how.
Beschorneria, doing what it’s supposed to do
When it’s supposed to do it!
On the last day of January I posted a photo of a plant in bud, way ahead of its time. Well, Jude wanted to know what it would look like, so here it is again.
Interesting rather than pretty isn’t it Jude?
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Fragrance like almond
reminds me each April
of his distant death
April: Macros in the garden
Or not as the case may be.
Jude’s theme this month is macro and I hoped to take some photos yesterday but the weather was dire. I’ve tried again on my way and when I got home from work. It was breezy, that’s my excuse anyway!
I wonder if you can tell which are phone shots and which are DSLR?
Lucid Gypsy 