31 Sunday Mar 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, flowers, nature, spring, wildflowers
Now before you feel the need to correct the spelling of ‘merry-gold’ in my title, let me just say that it was deliberate because I find Marsh marigolds such cheery, merry flowers, and it always makes me smile to see them. I spotted some yesterday in Cardiff’s Heath Park, and they’re also in full flower at the moment in Penarth’s Alexandra Park, where I went for a meander earlier today.
23 Saturday Feb 2019
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The French dent-de-lion, lion’s tooth (from the shape of its leaves), became, in English, Dandelion, that wonderful burst of wildflower yellow that lights up grassy meadows and roadside verges, and provides an important early source of pollen to emerging insects. I couldn’t go past this particularly lush flower as I stomped down the zigzag path this afternoon.
27 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in autumn, flowers, nature, wildflowers
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#FloralFriday, autumn colour, autumn flowers, British wildflowers, white wildflowers, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers
‘Who would live happily in the country
must be wisely prepared to take great pleasure in little things.’
~ Henry Beston, in Northern Farm: A chronicle of Maine, Reinhart & Co, 1948
23 Friday Jun 2017
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Agrimonia eupatoria, Agrimony, Bird’s-foot trefoil, Blackstonia perfoliata, Dyer’s greenweed, Genista tinctoria, Lotus corniculata, Rhinanthus minor, wildflowers, Yellow rattle, yellow wildflowers, Yellow-wort
Yellow is the colour of the week as far as the wildflowers are concerned.
These are some I’ve seen: Bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculata), Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), Dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria), and Yellow-wort (Blackstonia perfoliata).
03 Friday Jun 2016
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Yellow is the colour of happiness, optimism, enlightenment, creativity, hope, cheerfulness, sunshine … and the quintessential colour of Spring.
Yellow is also the most luminous in the colour spectrum – the colour that most easily catches the human eye but, more importantly, the eyes of bees, so it’s no surprise that yellow is the most common flower colour. Here in Wales, after experiencing only my second British winter in thirty-odd years, I have been delighted by the coming of Spring, and both charmed and uplifted by the yellow wildflowers everywhere. First came the Dandelion and Daffodil, the Lesser celandine and the paler shade of the Primrose and, in boggy places, the Marsh marigold.
Now, as spring becomes summer, the succession of yellow continues with fields and meadows carpeted in yellow. We have the many varieties of Buttercup, vibrant Bird’s foot trefoil and Yellow archangel, the Dandelion look-alike Cat’s ear and Nipplewort, and in boggy places, Yellow flag iris. It is truly glorious.
