The wild flower picture thread.

[David oakman]

This is Marsh marigold from my wet woods also called king cup:001_smile:

[Dean Lofthouse]

 

Wood goldilocks (Ranunculus)

 

Burdock (Arctium)

 

Rosebay willowherb (Chamerion)

 

Red campion (Silene dioca)

 

Wow Giles, thanks for that

 

It almost makes me want to learn flowers.... but it's interesting to know what is in my wood, before Davids thread I hardly took any notice

[Giles Hill]

You're welcome, I keep almost wanting to learn a few more too, but have trouble doing it just for the sake of it - its easier if you've got somewhere to apply it to, which it sounds like you have with your wood - I've picked up most of those ones from gardening.

[Dean Lofthouse]

This is a first for deano...........an interest in flowers

 

As you know I do grass cutting and hedge trimming for a major brewery.

 

Recently I took down a row of knackered cherrys and ripped out a load of manky spikey shrubs on the brewery frontage that were in a bed that is about 80m by 1m wide.

 

My intention was to grass the full length of the bed and plant 5 heavy standard trees equally spaced.

 

After this thread, I asked them if they will be interested in me leaving say a 10m section somewhere in the middle as a flower bed and have it as a dedicated wild flower bed.

 

I really like the Aquilegia (columbine) that giles named for me and was thinking along the lines of similar flowers that will, between them, give a nice bee freindly display spring sumer and autumn.

 

I could do with some sugestions if you could chaps with pictures if possible

 

I should say the ground is quite dry and slightly clay and I like this yellow one as well if we knew what it was

Edited June 3, 2010 by Dean Lofthouse

[Bart]

Nice thread, David

 

Dean id say the the "yellow one" is a welsh poppy (Meconopsis). Nice idea at the brewery, Foxgloves (Digitalis) and Oxeye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) may be good as they self seed well and bee's love them.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Cheers Bart, some good ones there

[Dean Lofthouse]

Found this site for wild or woodland flowers

 

About Horwich Pennine Wildflowers | flowers

[David oakman]

Liking flowers Dean you will be wearing pink shirts next:lol:

 

We have three types of clover in field strips the bees love that the crimson clover is tall with a big flower head as i said bees love it:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the yellow is the welsh poppy dean

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Bees love red clover Red Clover (trifolium pratense) wildflower, good for bees

 

Might have been an idea to have left a monolith 6ft tall close by and drilled it with a 10mm bit to provide nesting sites for solitary bees too!

 

just some thoughts!