Glad Midsommar!
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common_natureMidsummer's Eve is the second most celebrated holiday here in Sweden and like Christmas a lot of the celebration centres around food and drink, but for Midsummer flowers are also a large part. Particularly wild flowers. May and June are the big months for wild flowers here and all the photos I posted below are just some of all the wild flowers I saw on my walk this morning.
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
Marsh Mallows (Althaea officinalis)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
St. John's Wort (Hypericum maculatum)
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia)
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
Marsh Mallows (Althaea officinalis)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
St. John's Wort (Hypericum maculatum)
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia)
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Date: 2024-06-21 05:54 pm (UTC)these are so vividly beautiful!
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Date: 2024-06-21 06:58 pm (UTC)Thank you for that array of soft cool northerly flowers, in off-whites tinted by a drop of pink or green, and periwinkle violet-blues, and pink inclining to mauve; the warmest touch is the solar yellow of the Saint John’s Wort.
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Date: 2024-06-22 06:49 pm (UTC)This time of the year the flowers are such a varied collection of colours. In a month or so most of them will be yellow.
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Date: 2024-06-21 08:00 pm (UTC)We have two kinds of campion here -- not native, but pretty -- but not that very spidery one. That is quite a flower.
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Date: 2024-06-22 06:54 pm (UTC)I usually see white campions, but I think the bladder campion is getting more common.
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Date: 2024-06-22 06:55 pm (UTC)Thanks for helping us celebrate
Date: 2024-06-21 10:29 pm (UTC)I suspect the Bladder Campion is actually an alien visitor.
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Date: 2024-06-23 04:13 pm (UTC)Thoughts
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Date: 2024-06-27 06:55 pm (UTC)I do recommend domestic yarrow -- it comes in a huge array of colors. I have some that light or dark pink, peach to goldenrod, and this year I bought a red one.