Wild flowers on our walk – Part 1
I frequently take our two dogs for a walk, all three of us need the exercise. Having taken photographs of wild flowers in the field next door, I decided to repeat the exercise on our walk.
First up though let me clarify one point, who takes who for a walk? The following photo of our three shadows answers this question.
Well maybe, this makes it clearer who is in charge here
Barack and Charlie are in no doubt!
The following photos were quickly taken of wild flowers growing by the side of the road. (The dogs were confused as to what I was up to!) I was amazed as to how many wild flowers are out there, just a few steps from home. Please correct me if I get the naming of any of them wrong. I’m learning here!
And apologies for quality of some photographs, I’m only using the camera on my phone for the job.
1 Poppy
2 Rape. This is the wild flower that’s responsible for those beautiful yellow fields, you sometimes see, travelling across the country. When the sun is shining, I think these yellow fields look spectacular. The book says ‘Common on waysides, on bare ground, and in fields. Also grown as a winter feed for cattle … ‘
3 Dandelion
4 More nettles!
5 Daisies
6 Groundsel
7 Purple Clover (not in the book!)
8 White Clover
9 Buttercup
10 Bird’s Foot Trefoil
11 Tufted Vetch
12 Commom Speedwell
13 ‘Devil’s Porridge’
I went back out again to-night and found lots more. Same half hour walk. I have a plan.
Tomorrow night I will leave the dogs at home sleeping. It’s hard trying to photograph and identify wild flowers while two dogs, insist on licking me me all over when I stop, and at the same time I’m trying to keep them from getting run-over by passing cars.
The stress of it all!
Tomorrow night I’ll also bring a pen, great when the memory is dodgy!
I’m beginning to feel like Grannymar. I’m collecting wild flowers. She collects toyboys. We all have our collections!
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Lily,
I must point Magpie in your direction, he will love these.
As for collections… we are all allowed to have them.
Your post reminds me of a botany class I took in my undergrad where we had to be able to identify 100 species of local plants by latin name and use a complicated key to determine the names of new species. A lot of memorization, and I’ve forgotten most of it. Are there many invasive non-indigenous plants in your area?
Arianne You just reminded me, I too studied this in botany at college, all long forgotten. I’m aiming to try to identify 30 by their English names! I don’t know the answer to your question, but I will ask a friend who is good at this. Answer to follow!
Grannymar, I’m aiming for 30 wild flowers. How many toyboys? (You needn’t answer that question!!!!)
wild flowers are the most beautiful in my opinion and ur 2 pups are just beautiful
looking forward to meeting you both on Saturday 
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