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!

[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.

[cmcmck]

So many familiar ones here! :o)

[shirebound]

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

[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.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice to see these!

[pauraque]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for helping us celebrate

[jesse_the_k]

I suspect the Bladder Campion is actually an alien visitor.

[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?

[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...

[adafrog]

Pretty.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

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