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Post by lugg on May 22, 2016 20:20:36 GMT
All lovely - I think you are correct Bixa - Vetch is a kind of pea I think ... we have quite a few types here growing in the wild . This is wild garlic which is quite abundant at the moment in woodland (Allium ursinum)
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Post by htmb on May 22, 2016 20:25:56 GMT
Very pretty blossoms, Lugg. Is the wild garlic edible?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 23, 2016 1:35:57 GMT
What a fairyland of a photograph, Lugg! You are so lucky to have that kind of landscape near you.
My grasp of Latin is pretty skimpy, but I think the ursinum in the garlic's name must refer to bears, giving rise to even more storybook images of gourmet woodland creatures.
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Post by lugg on May 23, 2016 6:33:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 23, 2016 15:42:01 GMT
Oh, interesting! Looking at your picture, I'd simply assumed the spiky leaves belonged to the wild garlic, but it's the really the beautiful broad ones. Do people ever use it in landscaping, or is it only found wild?
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Post by mossie on May 27, 2016 15:09:01 GMT
This straggly sweet pea has sprung from nowhere on my gravelled back garden, which originally had nothing planted in it at all. Now the gravel is almost submerged under invading plants, windbourne, bird bourne, you name it.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2016 15:21:25 GMT
It kills me that you keep calling it a "scraggly garden", Mossie, when it really it has the most delightful cottage garden feel to it. The form you originally gave it is still there, but the "gentle chaos" has made a beautiful mark on it too. I love the mossy stairs and the charming figure peeping out from them.
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Post by amboseli on May 27, 2016 18:38:01 GMT
So many special plants and flowers. Nice! Rhododendron, typical for the area I live in. They are everywhere, in every garden and in the wild.
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Post by lugg on May 27, 2016 19:03:57 GMT
Lovely purple flower Amboseli . Mossie -your garden is lovely, especially I am a fan of your orange poppies alas they don't last too long but beautiful all the more. Bixa - I do have another form of wild garlic in my garden -or did have ( I lifted some bulbs for later replanting as I was digging over the border after the wall was re-erected) although those are a different variety and do indeed have spiky leaves. the flowers are very similar nevertheless.
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Post by mossie on Jun 5, 2016 16:00:45 GMT
I showed you some bugle a while ago, here is a real specimen snapped at Felixstowe this morning
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 14:15:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 15:31:59 GMT
Huckleberries and blackberries!
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Post by htmb on Jul 2, 2016 21:14:59 GMT
Yum!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 16:54:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2016 18:22:35 GMT
Lovely clear blue bugle, Mossie, and beautiful abundance, Lizzy and Kerouac.
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Post by htmb on Jul 30, 2016 10:01:50 GMT
If I were to stay around all this deliciousness for much longer I fear I'd start to get itchy fingers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2016 11:57:41 GMT
Maybe because grapes are so often depicted in art as a symbol of abundance, seeing them in real life seems more of a thrill than with other fruit. Your picture shows very tempting ones!
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Post by htmb on Jul 30, 2016 11:59:39 GMT
Tempting, but growing up very high on a building where my grubby fingers could not touch.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2016 12:21:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 0:48:42 GMT
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Post by breeze on Aug 25, 2016 2:01:09 GMT
Really beautiful, Lizzy, and the fragrances almost come off the screen.
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Post by htmb on Aug 25, 2016 21:54:13 GMT
Very pretty composition, Lizzy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 22:28:36 GMT
Thanks. I just threw them in the plastic bucket that way!
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Post by mossie on Aug 29, 2016 15:08:05 GMT
Anyone fancy Sea Kale. It is reputed to be a very healthy vegetable. Sooner you than me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 29, 2016 15:28:39 GMT
Is sea kale "real" kale, i.e., can it be eaten? Looks as though it would give the jaws a good workout, but on the plus side, no need to add salt.
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Post by amboseli on Aug 31, 2016 11:21:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2016 14:11:57 GMT
So pretty! What is that in the second picture -- heather? Looks like you could have foraged happily on that ride.
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Post by amboseli on Aug 31, 2016 16:49:46 GMT
Yes, that's heather. The nature reserve near my house is full of it. It was at its best at the end of July, but it's still nice to see.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 20:09:05 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2016 0:50:02 GMT
I stubbed my fingers on the monitor trying to pick those 3D grapes. Those are gorgeous portraits of fruit.
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