A few days ago I brought you with me as we waded through a sea of bluebells and today I bring to you cloths of gold and floral chintz from along the Perth lade. It’s a place steeped in the history of the Scottish textile industry where once cloths were placed to dry in those same fields. Now native wild flowers like viola, poppies and field forgetmenots (myosotis arvensis) weave their way through the fields of Oil seed rape (Brassica Napus). Luring the attraction from the male orange tip butterfly as he flutters and dances non stop in the breeze while his partner (with no orange colouration) lays her eggs on the flowering stems.
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(orange tip butterflies amongst a field of Oil Seed Rape)
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Along with some of the Oil seed rape unraveling from the field; meadow buttercups, dandelions, marsh marigolds (caltha palustris), broom (cytisus scoparius) and common fumitory intertwine the hedgerows.
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From the top
Common Fumitory, Forget me nots
Marsh Marigold, Cystisus Scoparius
Dandelion, Papaver
Brassica Napus, Meadowcup Buttercup
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Cascades of hawthorn flowers hem the lade bank resembling sheets of linen that once were hung out to dry in vintage years.
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A little path threads its way along the meandering banks flanked with Queen Anne Lace (Cow Parsley).
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along with stiches of Great Stitchwort, Daisies, Water Avens, Lamiums, Garlic Mustard, Veronica, Plantains and Watercress.
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Greater Stitchwort, Daisy
Water Avens, Lamium
Garlic Mustard,Veronica
Ribwort Plantain, Watercress
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Vicia Sativa
Vicia Sepium
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And finally a floral chintz patterns the little pathway made from Claytonia Sibirica, Columbines, Geraniums, Erodiums and Red Campion (silene diocia)..
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From the top
Claytonia Sibirica (Spring Beauty)
Aquilegia Vulgaris (Columbine)
Erodium cicutanium
Geranium dissectum
Silene dioica (Red Campion)
.What native chintz patterns are weaved in your locality or garden?
For more wildflowers on Wildflower Wednesday please visit Gail over at Clay and Limestone.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – April’s Wildflowers along the lade
So whats a lade ? – our little green corridor
Awakening the dawn over Huntingtower Castle
2010 leavesnbloom
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"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it" (Psalm 24:1).
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16 comments:
Very creative and informative too ! Thanks so much, Gina
They are all so beautiful Rosie. I never cared before for wildflowers, but since posting them on my blog I've learned to appreciate their beauty and your neat photos are a great help for identifying them. If I just could read those letters!
Good night to you too and sweet dreams!
Once again, a beautiful field of wildflowers! Love all that yellow! Your Scottish wildflowers are indeed clothing your countryside in splendid glory. Can't say I've seen such beauty in our fields here, though coreopsis can be seen draping empty fields in floral cloths here and there.
Rosie, your wildflowers are lovely. I can certainly relate to the vetch. We seem to have a lot of winter and spring vetch here this year, along with a similar looking wild Pacific Pea plant.
Rosie, I saw the yellow fields from the train~They were just gorgeous... We have Spring Beauties here and I have tried to get erodiums to grow here! Thank you for joining~I am loving learning about your wildflowers! It would be wonderful to in person! gail
Those flowers are so beautiful!
Lovely post - your pictures are fantastic!
Beautiful photos. We have fields of rape seed, although we call it canola, growing where I used to live in the BC Peace, about 400 kilometres north of where I live now.
Beautiful field of wildflowes. Thanks for leaving a comment, iris are heavy feeders. Yours may need a boost of compost or fertilzer. Hope this helps them bloom for next year.
What a beatuiful group of photos! Want photo editing program do you use ? (To label the pics, etc.)
So many beautiful images. I am partial to the hawthorne blossoms, they are so very lovely.
thanks so much for the info...i will definitely make a collection...we are trying to get our backyard done this summer, so i'm thinking of what i'd like to do...i love your site..it didn't realize you had so much info...will have to keep up and learn more :)
btw i have another blog just for photos and it's mostly flowers now...in case your interested...i could look at photos or take them all day!
www.dancingmatilda.wordpress.com.
I love the way you include bits of local history in your post. These flowers are so beautiful. And your presentation, more so. I didn't care much about wildflowers earlier but blogging/and seeing posts like yours has made me appreciate everything that I see around me. More than I ever imagined before.
And it's lovely to see Scotland in all its glorious beauty.
Wow, the wildflowers you have here are very colourful, striking and beautiful. So many many on the field in bloom.
What an incredible journey through your magical post! So many beautiful wild flowers..
Oh, my goodness! You certainly have been busy with your camera! The wild flowers are just beyond beautiful! Now I know there are wildflowers other places besides California! (just kidding)
Thank you for lifting my spirits with your UK flowers, Rosie!
Thanks for stopping by my blog today and leaving a comment and I really appreciate you taking the time to do so. I'll either reply to you on my blog or else make a return visit to your blog over the next few days.