July in the Northern Hemisphere

[Hoy]

This island was almost overgrown by shrubs but now the old pastures and meadows have been restored almost to their heydays when the sea pilots and their families lived here. Now it is only summer guests.




Linaria vulgaris. As the name suggests, very common!




Solanum dulcamara. Common both at the beach and inland.




Ononis arvensis.




Trifolium medium.

[Maggi Young]

Enjoying the sea air I can feel from your pictures, Trond!

[pfirsich48]

I have had Lonicera crassifolia growing in my rock garden for four years here in Central New York-USDA Zone 5

[ian mcdonald]

Trond, your photo of bedrock looks like schist with a dyke of ?basalt.

[Hoy]

Enjoying the sea air I can feel from your pictures, Trond!

Maggi,

The air is very special with a lot of diferent odors. You have the smell of the salt sea itself, the decomposing algae, the flowers (especially ladies bedstraw) and seabirds. I love them all

Not to forget the fragrance of roses, lilies and other garden plants, and houses

[Hoy]

Trond, your photo of bedrock looks like schist with a dyke of ?basalt.

Ian I think basalt is right but on a geology map they call the main rock for foliated gnesiss. The geology on these islands is very mixed though with a lot of different minerals.

More geology (and flora) from the same area:

[ian mcdonald]

Trond, foliated granitic gneiss it is. I was getting mixed up in my old age.

[Regelian]

In the wilds of North Rhein-Westfallia, Paris quadrifolia.

[Robert]

Trond,

Resting and trying to recover has given me a little time to catch up on some of the other threads.

I enjoy your photographs from Norway immensely! What a beautiful land in so many ways!

Now I will go rest some more.

[Roma]

Clematis x durandii - I need to go into my brother's garden to see the best of the flowers.  This is it from my side.
Cardiocrinum giganteum

[Tristan_He]

Clematis x durandii - I need to go into my brother's garden to see the best of the flowers.  This is it from my side.

You could post the same pic on the lily thread too Roma  What a stand of L. martagon, I don't think I have ever seen them that big. I've never had much joy with them, what is the secret?

[Roma]

I have no idea why they do so well.  I started with a few white ones and a few var. cattaniae grown from seed.  I didn't get round to dead heading for a few years and finished up with all colours and too many bulbs. 

[Gabriela]

You could post the same pic on the lily thread too Roma  What a stand of L. martagon, I don't think I have ever seen them that big. I've never had much joy with them, what is the secret?

I also never seen such 'agglomeration' of martagons, neither in the wild, not cultivated!

[Gabriela]

More geology (and flora) from the same area:

Beautiful seaside landscapes Trond! I went leisurely through all the pictures tonight I often see the same lichen here on certain rocks, maybe it is associated with the granitic rock type (?).
Eryngium maritimum is a gem of a plant (my seeds didn't germinate unfortunately).

[Tristan_He]

Beautiful seaside landscapes Trond! I went leisurely through all the pictures tonight I often see the same lichen here on certain rocks, maybe it is associated with the granitic rock type (?).
Eryngium maritimum is a gem of a plant (my seeds didn't germinate unfortunately).

There is often a band of orange lichen associated with the sea shore (the zone just above the 'beach proper'). I don't think its terribly sensitive to rock type.
http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/speciespages/YellowOrangeLichen.html]
[url]http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/speciespages/YellowOrangeLichen.html[/url]
http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Caloplaca_marina.html

I love E. maritimum too but it's not easy to please. I think it needs a deep sandy soil and dislikes competition.