Saturday, 7 May 2011

Wild flowers I saw today

Meadow Vetchling / Gesse des prés
With half an hour before bath time and my camera at the ready, I hoped to find 10 wild flowers...


Vetch / Coronille varié
Cow Parsley with bug / Cerfeuil sauvage


Bladder campion / Silene enflé
Common Dogwood / Cornouiller sanguin
Cow Parsley with stripey bugs
Greater stitchwort / Stellaire holostée
Buttercup / Bouton d'Or
Herb Robert / Herbe à Robert
Bluebell and speedwell /
Jacinthe des bois et véronique des champs

Clover / Trèfle

Daisies / Pâquerettes 



Dog Rose / Églantier

Crosswort / Gaillet croisette

Forget-me-nots / myosotis


Elderflower / Sureau

Bramble / Ronce


Colewort or St Benedict's Herb / Herbe de St Benoit
Post bloom Colewort

Red bryony / Bryone



Ox Eye Daisy / Marguerite
Tomorrow's Ox Eye Daisy / Marguerite
 ... after 20 minutes the battery ran out on my camera and my "ten thing" theme had been thrown to the wind. Who would have thought we had 'meadow vetchling' growing in our lane?