Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Serendipity

I am by no means a great gardener, in fact, I am barely and adequate one. However, I do love pretty flowers, and when we moved into this flat the unpromising little plot in front of it set about producing buckets of the things with no input at all from me. Perfection!
I recognize most of them, but this yellow one flummoxes me. It's not in my one reference book...

These ones here are Michaelmas daisies:
These are wild peas:
And these are campanulas, whcih very obligingly come up in all the cracks and gaps in the stonework of the steps. Thanks to our weird weather this is their second flowering this year, making them excellent value!And of course, they provide an excellent opportunity to play with my new camera's close-up feature...

4 comments:

Tohnia said...

the "golden flower" might be Goldenrod. I'm not 100% sure, so don't quote me on that, but it looks really similar to the Goldenrod that grows wild here in Canada.

pieheart said...

Hi,

love the wonder woman sweater! I think the yellow flower is Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow' It's in the milkweed family

I tried to find a good picture online but only found closeups of the blooms. But if you google it, or google Butterfly Weed, you may find it.

Kirsty said...

Thank you both for this- I think it is the Goldenrod. Hurrah for the internets!

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