Wildflowers
Gallery Wordless Wednesday – Umbels
Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris)
Wordless Wednesday – Orchid Trio
Machair orchids: Northern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza purpurella), Early Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
The Machair in Flower – May
I know that the machair is about to burst into flower when the grass becomes speckled with the small white flowers of our common daisy (Bellis perennis). As the days pass the grassland slowly turns into a sea of waving golden heads of meadow buttercups (Ranunculus acris). Tall and elegant they sway in the breeze
In a Vase on Monday – Irises
Alas my contributions to Cathy’s meme are somewhat erratic and it looked as if I was set for another failure. Yesterday was wet and windy and today the mist rolled in enveloping everything in a thick white blanket. Somehow a bunch of chervil with a few insignificant white umbels was too feeble, but that was