Wildflowers of Portugal

Yes, FANCY, where are your bananas, pray tell?

Everything has split and done a runner ...

 

I can't see them all!!!!

 

A Bee Orchid. There was another type also, black, but I had a smear on the lens ... right across the flowers! :eek: Maybe I'll find another one.

 

Lovely LofL but it was another one I was thinking of.

 

Lol,your small blue Iris looks like a Gentian as oppossed to being an Iris,and your lilltle plant that Duncan is holding looks like some sort of piture plant or fly catcher.yhey are all lovely though.Thankyou for sharing them with us

 

Kandy, they are definitely mini Iris. There was a little cluster outside the gates yesterday. Just went out and they've gone ... they only seem to live for a day or so.

However, took some pics of the various wildflowers on our dusty lane ....

 

It looks like you have Limnanthes{Poached Egg flower}Yellow and white and theones above look like Centaurea,but I cannot remember which one.It looks similar to the one we have in our front garden.Shame about the Iris,I would have loved to have seen them

 

Did nobody notice Cal in the first picture?

 

I've just caught up with this thread LOL.
Those purple pipe shaped flowers look to me to be Aristolochia Baetica.
Wouldn't mind a few seeds if poss LOL.

 

Pete, they're on the path to my Garden Centre friend's house so hopefully they will still be blooming next time we go there. If I phoned him, he wouldn't know what to go look for!!! Wildflowers aren't his thing!

I'll see what I can do.

 

I bet he would, I think its a plant very similar and smaller version of "Dutchmans Pipe"

 

Funny you say that, pete, I looked up Dutchman's Pipe originally but decided no.

In the meantime, I have e-mailed Stu and asked him if he could go wander down that dirt path through the ancient trees by the stone wall and look for it ... having sent him the photos also!

As someone said to me recently here ... what I do for the men in my life ....

 

:D :D :D

 

LofL my banana plants are still asleep all in fleece. No doubt indeed I will show them off around june -july time. You see Lofl we dont have the sunshine as you do. mmmmmmmmmmmm I think I will import it from Guess where from---Portugal?

 

I took a lot of wildflower pictures yesterday, but would like to identify them first if I can as this is new to me.

This is one of the Narcissus tazettas which actually had a cinnamon smell.



... and I haven't a clue what this delicate flower is but it's a bulb ...