The Road to the wild flower meadow.

[linda_joyce]

The wild flower meadow is supposed to be the best area for flowers but the paths run them a close second is places.

The dog rose has just opened it's first bloom



The fox gloves are in full bloom.


and in close up


Even the stinging nettles are in full bloom as are the Docks, the cure for the sting always grows close to the nettle here, and some purple(to my eyes don't fotget I'm colour deficient)flowering things that I don't know the name of. They are almost aways found growing mixed in the nettles around here.





My legs are aching too much to sit at the computer any longer, I must go put them up. The flower meadow will wait to another day but when I got back to the car park a different car was parked next to me. It had a sticker in the window in praise of Affenpinchers with a picture on it that is the image of my first dog Sooty when he was young. Now he was a Pekingnese/terrier type cross, I wonder if theses originally came from that cross too?%)

Comments

[tattooedraven.livejournal.com]

Oooooo the Fox Glove is quite pretty! I saw around here the Indian Paintbrush is blooming but I'm sure they're all done now.

But the wild roses are blooming! :D

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

So is the Indian Paintbrush, I googled a picture of it. The rose in all her forms is the flower of summer, and it is June now. We consider that to be the beginning of summer here.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

The fox gloves are nice.

Aww he must have been a cute dog.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

He was the cutes little object I have ever seen as a 15 week old pup I had for my birthday. he could sit on my father's hopen hand He grew up to have the need to guard his people from his Peke side and the intelligence to know that wasn't always neccessary from the terrier part. We learned to say come in to anyone who stepped over the thresh hold or they got bitten.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Beuatiful!
A dog rose? We call it "šípková růže" and it is a symbol of the mightiest Medieval Family here, the Rosenbergs - Rožmberkové. Is "wild rose" right? Or "five-petals rose"?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yes it is a wild rose, the white rose of Lancaster in the War of the roses

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Hey, we're the red roses!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm Always getting the colours mixed I meant York of course.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

As kalypso_v has just corrected me I had best correct my answer to you It was the house of York that had the White rose as its emblem not Lancaster.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

*Grins* Ah, I do know something about the War of the Roses...

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

The wild white rose is summer's glory!
A great picture. The local wild roses have a pink edge to them.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Most of our wild roses are pink all over but this one tree has the white flowers as does the dog rose in my garden I use as my bird feeding station. That one grew from the root a red hybrid T rose that once grew in that spot.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

What a lovely place to live!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I love it, I don't think I could live anwhere that I couldn't see trees from my windows, I was lucky in Newport to live opposite a very small green patch with some lovely old trees in it. They kept me sane for my 15 years there.