Login
You're viewing the front-end.social public feed.
  • etcetc@toot.wales
    Jun 26, 2026, 9:21 PM

    Well, no-mow-may segued into didn’t-want-to-mow-june, on account of how nice the oxeye daisies sprouting in the lawn looked. So now we have some new free flowers growing next to them. More details in the alt text.

    #bloomscrolling #wildflowers

    Lesser knapweed. We have big boring bushes of greater knapweed elsewhere, but the lesser stuff looks much prettier, and is much less spready. The leaves are long and thin and the flower is thistle like… a puffball of long and slender tubelike individual flowers which are white at the base tending through pale purple to dark purple at the tip.
    Red clover, which isn’t red at all. The small leaves have pointed oval shapes, and a pale green arrowhead mark in the centre pointing away from the stem. The flowers have the classic fabaceae shape of you look closely, but they form a puffball of many small flowers together so it isn’t obvious at first glance. Despite the name, the flowers are white at the base and pink at the tips, darkening to purple as they go over and wither away.
    A musk mallow, either suffering from the heat or going over… the top of the plant has bowed over and the flower that was horizontal yesterday is now pointing at the ground. It has five pale pink petals with fain darker pink veins running down their length, with tip that are split into a v-shape. The central structures have an interesting barbed and hairy structure, but I picked the wrong camera to get a good look at it.
    Yarrow. It forms many tiny white flowers with creamy orange centres which form little umbrella-shapes which meet up with other flowers that can form a sort of bumpy sheet-like structure, like an untidy umbellifer. It can sometimes form pale pink flowers which I rather like, but this is uncommon and I’ve never seen it in our garden.
    💬 0🔄 2⭐ 2