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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Gerdk on June 29, 2012, 01:06:25 PM

Title: some delightful weeds
Post by: Gerdk on June 29, 2012, 01:06:25 PM

When I explored a recently build footpath not far from my home I came along a field with a delightful
set of ' weeds ' which attracted a lot of insects and also some photographers - one of them was me.
I want to share these impressions.

Gerd

Title: Re: some delightful weeds
Post by: Lina Hesseling on June 29, 2012, 01:14:31 PM

What a great place, Gerd.
I could spent a day walking there.

Lina.

Title: Re: some delightful weeds
Post by: Hans J on June 29, 2012, 02:00:13 PM

Hello Gerd ,

thank you for your nice pictures of "Klatschmohn" -not so often in this time .....

Yesterday by a walk we found near fields many Kornblumen ( Centaurea cyanus ) + Kamille

Hans

Title: Re: some delightful weeds
Post by: Carlo on July 09, 2012, 10:53:26 PM

Weeds...don't get me started. It's all a plot to get us to ruthlessly eliminate plants from our spaces. I had Cichorium intybus blooming in the garden in NJ with its singular blue--and then discovered the white flowered form down the road--which is beautiful and the third of the variants (the other is pink--haven't seen it this year) to be sought out.

Title: Re: some delightful weeds
Post by: Rafa on July 12, 2012, 01:23:12 PM

Gerd I would say it is any field margin in Spain!. Which is species is the viola? V. kitaibeliana?

Title: Re: some delightful weeds
Post by: Gerdk on July 12, 2012, 02:19:57 PM

Quote from: Rafa on July 12, 2012, 01:23:12 PM

Gerd I would say it is any field margin in Spain!. Which is species is the viola? V. kitaibeliana?

Rafa, these kind of field margins became very rare here in the north. The violet is ordinary
Viola arvensis.

Gerd