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| Wild Carrot |
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| Wild Carrot - this will eventually be a tall and lacy/foamy umbelifera of florets |
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| Sea Kale |
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| Daisy Chain |
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| Sea Pinks (My paternal grandmother grew these in the garden of our farmhouse near the sea in New Zealand. They always remind me of her. They are delicate and tough, hardy and beautiful; they make even a dull day seem like sunshine. They never cease to make me smile.) |
The flowers are all just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you Duke. Are you out walking yet?
DeleteI love sea pinks (thrift?). It grows all over the cliffs here.
ReplyDeleteYes Thrift. I forgot its called that here.
DeleteLovely Thrift and lovely Dorset. I am visiting Dorset again this Summer.
ReplyDeleteDave you are going to love Dorset and the mud might have dried up by the time you visit.
DeleteI like all of these, but the sea kale and sea pinks tie for my favorite flower today.. gorgeous
ReplyDeleteAt least you could eat the kale (in desperation). Interesting to see the ancestors of our food crops.
DeleteBeautiful blue skies in your photographs and the wild flowers are lovely. I'm not good at identifying wild flowers - daisies and buttercups are about my limit!
ReplyDeleteLots of g**gling. Flowers I can sort of work out, birds I'm hopeless at beyond my basic list (the ones some well-meaning idiot thought we'd need out in NZ) - sparrows, gold finches, black birds, thrushes and starlings. I've learned crows and magpies (they are easy). However small things like chifchafs and dunnocks and siskins .... have great names but they could sit on my nose and I'd still only call them 'nice wee birdie'.
DeleteOhhhhhhhhhhhh I saw some new wild things I did not know about. Wild carrot...and the daisy chain was fun. I recall making daisy chain necklaces when I was a child
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
Wild carrots are also called (more prettily) Queen Anne's Lace - for their lacy flowers.
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteSooooo pretty. YAM xx
I enjoyed the colour. (Not so good at capturing shots of the wee birds that accompnied the stroll.
DeleteGrand pictures. I'm particularly fond of the wild carrots. We have a patch that comes up along our drive on the Northern California coast; I do my best to encourage them.
ReplyDeleteThey proliferate along old (defunct, dismantled) railway lines where I come from in NZ.
DeleteOne can't have too many sea pinks!
ReplyDeleteOr too much Thrift??.
DeleteSuch gorgeous wildflowers! I never knew that bloom was a wild carrot...we had something close when I lived on the coast of Northern California.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for joining us for Nature Friday!
Beth and the Girls
I guess there was a wild carrot before there was a domestic one. Apparently the latest craze for multi coloured carrots is just a return to older varieties - originally they were yellow, white, or purple (I have been told) and orange is something we bred or selected for about 400 years ago.
DeleteWow! Lovely floral photography ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in yours days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)