Amelia's photos with the keyword: Wild flowers

SC90 - Post 7 April - Unusually blue item. Bluebells are usually blue I hear you say; but often the 'bluebells' in peoples' gardens are pale blue, pink or even white and are, in fact, Spanish bluebells, Hyacinthoides hispanica, which have more upright open flower heads. They are very common in gardens in this country at this time of year, and are threatening the native populations of the English bluebell. For a bit of fun, and knowing the inverse of yellow is blue, I took a photo of yellow gorse and inverted the colours using Photoshop. The results can be seen below. 1021409/52400990" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 1021409/52400992" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">

Carpets of snowdrops in the grounds of Chirk Castle.

The gorse takes precedence.

Sunday challenge this week: This week, the Animal World, cute and fluffy, or majestic and powerful, or anything in between. If you can't find a suitable animal, maybe an ornament, artwork, etc. Close up preferred. Both these photos were taken on a walk around Aston Cil Nature reserve. The lakes are gradually being colonised by more species. Yesterday we saw two pairs of swans, 5 noisy coots, a pair of mergansers, a few flying ducks and 3 varieties of butterfly. The orange tip is one of the the easiest to photograph as it seems to stay still especially on dandelions. The first PiP is of a small bluish black beetle also on a dandelion and seen in the same area as the butterfly. The second PiP is of a male blackbird foraging underneath our bird feeders.

Silene dioica. Red campion.

SC61 - Inspired by Shakespeare "...over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." Part of a monologue spoken by Oberon, Act 2, Scene 1 of a Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The Luscious woodbine is Lonicera periclymenum, common names include honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, or woodbine. The rose in the centre is the hybrid musk rose, ‘Penelope’ bred by Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. It has trusses of semi-double seashell-pink blooms that are sweetly fragrant. This photo is taken in my garden The rose on the right, an eglantine, is a species of Rosa rubiginosa, also named R. eglanteria

Common names include Sea Fig, Western Iceplant, Coastal Iceplant, Baby Sun-Rose, Angled Pigface, I can't understand the 'Pigface' name. Carpobrotus edulis is a southern African plant. Introduced to Europe, the plant can be found entirely naturalised in some coastal habitats, particularly sea cliffs and sand-dunes in the south west of the UK. The plant tends be quite invasive, spreading and forming continuous mats over large areas. It does look stunning, but there may some problems with it. First of all it is not indigenous, and is colonising this area to the detriment of other natives such as thrift. Also it is a succulent and holds on to water, becoming heavy in wet weather. Whole mats of it can become dislocated from the cliffs causing rock falls. I'm not sure what the policy is in Budleigh. Maybe in certain areas the plants should be eradicated to allow indigenous species to thrive in order to prevent more coastal erosion.

Common names include Sea Fig, Western Iceplant, Coastal Iceplant, Baby Sun-Rose, Angled Pigface, I can't understand the 'Pigface' name. Carpobrotus edulis is a southern African plant. Introduced to Europe, the plant can be found entirely naturalised in some coastal habitats, particularly sea cliffs and sand-dunes in the south west of the UK. The plant tends be quite invasive, spreading and forming continuous mats over large areas. It does look stunning, but there may some problems with it. First of all it is not indigenous, and is colonising this area to the detriment of other natives such as thrift. Also it is a succulent and holds on to water, becoming heavy in wet weather. Whole mats of it can become dislocated from the cliffs causing rock falls.

White dead-nettle is a common plant of roadside verges, waste grounds and grassy banks - anywhere the ground has been disturbed. Like yellow archangel, and other members of the dead-nettle family, it doesn't have stinging leaves. Its white flowers appear from March right the way through to December.

Today's Sunday Challenge is: Yellow The common name comes from the leaf's supposed resemblance to a colt's foot. The leaves of coltsfoot appear after the flowers have set seed. The long stems bear scale-leaves that can be seen more clearly in the PiP. Coltsfoot has been used in herbal medicine and the leaves have been used in traditional Austrian medicine internally (as tea or syrup) or externally (directly applied) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, locomotor system, viral infections, flu, colds, fever, rheumatism and gout. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussilago

Arctium species. This reminded me of a bearded Scandinavian gnome with a snowy hat.