turlough: view over meadow filled with flowers ((summer) seasonal)
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Midsummer'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)
pale pink umbellate flowers

Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
cream-coloured flowers in racemes

Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
white bladder-like flowers

Marsh Mallows (Althaea officinalis)
large pink flowers
large white flowers

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
tall spike of hot pink flowers

Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
tall spikes of blue flowers with several bumblebees

St. John's Wort (Hypericum maculatum)
cluster of yellow flowers with many stamens

Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
tiny light purple florets in round head

Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia)
many blue bell-like flowers

Thanks for helping us celebrate

Date: 2024-06-21 10:29 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: 5 petal lavender flower (flower power)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k

I suspect the Bladder Campion is actually an alien visitor.

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