Glad Midsommar!

[turlough]

Midsummer's Eve is the second most celebrated holiday here in Sweden and like Christmas a lot of the celebration centres around food and drink, but for Midsummer flowers are also a large part. Particularly wild flowers. May and June are the big months for wild flowers here and all the photos I posted below are just some of all the wild flowers I saw on my walk this morning.

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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)


Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)


Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)


Marsh Mallows (Althaea officinalis)



Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)


Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)


St. John's Wort (Hypericum maculatum)


Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)


Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

these are so vividly beautiful!

[turlough]

I love going for walks this time of the year, there is so much prettiness everywhere!

[full_metal_ox]

And a solstice full moon into the bargain—although at your latitude it’ll be only briefly visible.

Thank you for that array of soft cool northerly flowers, in off-whites tinted by a drop of pink or green, and periwinkle violet-blues, and pink inclining to mauve; the warmest touch is the solar yellow of the Saint John’s Wort.

[turlough]

I was looking forward to at least catch a glimpse of the full moon but it's been raining for 24 hours and looks like it will continue this night too.

This time of the year the flowers are such a varied collection of colours. In a month or so most of them will be yellow.

[cmcmck]

So many familiar ones here! :o)

[full_metal_ox]

Some of these are flowers this Yank has only ever encountered in books—evoking the likes of Culpeper’s Herbal, Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies, and the names of Watership Down rabbits.

[turlough]

I love Baker's Flower Fairies so much!

[turlough]

The flora of England and Sweden are so much alike it always suprises me when I see something I don't recognise when I'm there. Or discover plants that are common here but not in England.

[shirebound]

How delightful! Thank you for sharing these beauties, and Glad Midsommar to you.

[turlough]

Thank you! I always enjoy sharing the beautiful flowers I see on my walks.

[pameladean]

Oh, those are so lovely, thank you!

We have two kinds of campion here -- not native, but pretty -- but not that very spidery one. That is quite a flower.

P.

[turlough]

I'm glad you like my photos!

I usually see white campions, but I think the bladder campion is getting more common.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice to see these!

[turlough]

Early summer flowers are a delight!

[pauraque]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[turlough]

I always enjoy sharing my love of flowers.

Thanks for helping us celebrate

[jesse_the_k]

I suspect the Bladder Campion is actually an alien visitor.

Re: Thanks for helping us celebrate

[turlough]

I think you might be right. It's certainly nothing like the other campions we have here!

[zenigotchas]

These flowers are so varied in their charm and cuteness! Isn't it lucky we get to exist at the same time as these plants?

[turlough]

Plants are a delight and I enjoy every minute I spend around them!

[de_eekhoorn]

Surprisingly most of these are also things I've noticed on campus here in the south of France! I am impressed by their adaptive capabilities...

[turlough]

Fascinating! I would have thought the flora of southern France would be more different. Many of these are flowers that flourish close to humans though I guess it makes sense for them to be quite adaptable.

[adafrog]

Pretty.

[turlough]

This is such a lovely time of the year!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Beautiful flowers! I have yarrow, wild and domestic. I love meadowsweet but rarely find it in garden shops.

Re: Thoughts

[turlough]

With our dry and sandy soil cultivated yarrow would do really well in gardens but for some reason you almost never see it. Meadowsweet isn't a garden plant here at all.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Wildflowers often aren't cultivated. I grow them as much for wildlife as myself. I have a devil of a time growing cultivated asters but frost asters, a weedy wildflower, are all over the place. Still pretty.

I do recommend domestic yarrow -- it comes in a huge array of colors. I have some that light or dark pink, peach to goldenrod, and this year I bought a red one.