I went for a saunter up on the hills today. Just five miles according to my steps counter on my mobile phone.
I noticed this wild flower growing where they don't spread granulated fertilizer. Isn't it beautiful? I saw many more and dragonflies and butterflies.
It's good to go a walk and see nature in all its glory.
That is splendid indeed. Good for the soul.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely JayCee. I felt so privileged to see it in all its beauty. I think the butterflies and dragonflies saw them first. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNatural nature is always best, too many places are cultivated. Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteYes I agree Marlene. It's good to go where just the natural things live. I will show more photos of my walk tomorrow. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteTruly a wildflower. A lovely delicate colour
ReplyDeleteYes Linda. Such a delicate wild flower like a rose among thorns.
DeleteDo you know what that flower is? It really is quite a unique thing.
ReplyDeleteI will never understand some Americans' obsessions with the perfect lawn. It is nothing more than an elimination of biodiversity and it is soooooo bad for bugs, water, people too.
I believe it is a Irish marsh orchid Debby. I think a lot of people lwould ike velvet green lawns that resemble a snooker table orWimbledon Tennis Club. I made one lawn into a plant nursery. We waste so much time and petrol cutting grass. I like lawns with daisies growing on them.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely orchid Dave. The ones I found in my back meadow "lawn" four years ago were the bee orchid. Every year I look for them again but they have never come back. Sometimes orchids only flower once. They are quite a mysterious plant. I think the appearance of the Bee orchid must have meant something for me, My mother's favourite flower so perhaps she came back to visit me.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely story Rachel. I think the Bee orchid being your mother's favourite. Could be the perfect way for her to communicate that she is ok and still watching you.
ReplyDeleteJust thinking. Does your brother who mows the grass put weed and feed or fertilizer on it? Wild flowers do not like granulated fertilizer and it can alter the ph of the soil. Thanks.
No, my brother does nothing like that for me. He just cuts the grass where I let him do it. The lawn is not really a proper lawn, it was the old stack yard when this place was a farm so theoretically it is a bit like a meadow. It is meadow grasses.
DeleteYes, an orchid. Ours flowered earlier and are various shades of deep pink, some have very large flowers, almost like a small hyacinth.
ReplyDeleteAs Rachel says, mysterious plants, that flower when they choose to. One year, when only a few sheep grazed, about half of one field was dotted with a variety of types, but nothing in that field since. We have had no chemicals on the land for over 25 tears now and the variety of grasses , wild flowers and fungi and lichens, seems to increase each year. Our lawn is up to my shoulder height in places.
Kathy
Do you have any staddle stones Rachel?
ReplyDeleteNo staddle stones here Dave. We don't have stone walls or anything of stone really here.
DeleteYou know the mushroon shaped stones that went under the stacks to prevent vermin climbing up them Rachel? I have seen them in Dorset. They go for a hundred Pounds or more.
DeleteI've never seen them here Dave.
DeletePerhaps they are only in Dorset Rachel?
DeleteThat is great to read Kathy. I wish I could see a photo of the wild flowers.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt is Jules.
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