On my walk today...!!

Ground ivy? That family is pretty large and they are all very similar. Wild flowers are incredibly beautiful and intricate when you look at them close up. Being mostly quite small, people just don't see them properly

 

I see them on my walk too - trouble is its when I walk down my garden! and the vetch is very difficult to eradicate.

 

Never mind, Waco. Vetch are members of the pea family so will be nitrogen fixers.

 

trouble is they look so like my tropiolum specioso (er not sure I got that right) the red thing that is a nasturshum and looks fantastic when it grows through my taxus eerr ewe no yew. anyway its not showing so looks like I lost it, but still not given up, they can be a bit late.

Oh well thats life!

 

Chalk downs are superb places for wild flowers. These are just three from this morning:

Wild mignonette


Pink campion is a hybrid of red and white campion


Clustered bellflower is related to the garden campanula.

 

...and here are three more. I sometimes think that I could manage quite well without a garden as long as I had access to the wild flowers.

Horseshoe vetch is like a miniature broom


Rockroses have been tamed and brought into the garden


Milkwort was once prescribed for nursing mothers.



All these plants that were so common and everyday now have to be sort out in special places. What are we doing to our countryside?

 

Brilliant photos!