Quality work being done by feral flowers in central Sheffield

[rydra_wong]

Comments

[minoanmiss]

oh wow, worth 1000 words indeed

[rydra_wong]

Lest the metal fencing and discarded Monster energy drink cans give the wrong impression: it's a really lovely city!

[ranunculus]

Good work indeed!

[shirebound]

Go, flowers, go!

[pameladean]

Those poppies are stunning. With a kind of, "Well, that's a weird choice of mulch, but whatever."

Do you happen to know what the flowers in the second photo are? I poked around some, but couldn't get an ID that seemed right.

P.

[rydra_wong]

I'm fairly sure they're lilacs.

[weofodthignen]

Jupiter's beard / red valerian; I don't recall seeing them till I moved to California, but they get everywhere here.

... Oh, and that looks like a buddleia down on the left :-)

[rydra_wong]

Alternatively.

[pameladean]

Oh, okay, that looks much more likely. I know common names are a boundless source of confusion, but I was pretty sure that lilacs were the same in the UK and the US, and I couldn't make either the blooms or the leaves look like lilac. Thanks!

P.

[yourlibrarian]

Wonderful to see the color and the blooms cheering up the place :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yes! Good job, flowers.