Bee Meadow

[anteros_lmc]

I adore wild flowers, always have done. When I was wee my mother taught me the names of all the wild flowers on the island and I used to spend hours and hours collecting, pressing and drawing them. In the park beside where I live there is a "bee meadow", a patch of grass left uncut and sown with native wild flowers to attract bees. It's absolutely glorious. I love the way it changes colour as the different flowers come into season. Just now it is all white and yellow, with ox eye daisies, yellow vetch and yellow rattle. Later it will be the pinks, ragged robin and red clover and finally blue, with cornflowers and scabious. This picture doesn't remotely do it justice, but I've found over the years that it's really hard to photograph large swathes of wild flowers.

Comments

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

How lovely. Our local school leaves a long patch of grass uncut and it looks just like that!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

What a lovely idea! I'm very tempted to leave a patch of our garden to go wild, but I suspect it would turn into a bog!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

We have one bed in the garden which is reluctant to grow anything we plant. We gave up on it and it's now been taken over by (depending on season) celandine, primroses, bluebells, etc!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely! Though bluebells are a bit of a menace in my garden. They are everywhere and they choke out of lots of the other plants. They are very pretty in the spring though :)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

PS. Was in the Pembroke Dock heritage centre today. Had a "Saw this, thought of you and nodbear moment.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what perturbs me more, the fact that you have been hanging around the docks, or the fact that you thought of nodbear and I while you were there ;)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I refuse to comment. :)

[katriona-s.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I love the wild flower garden too, and yes, I know it's quite difficult to take a "beautiful" photo of it. But I think this photo looks very nice.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

What do wild flowers look like in your part of the world? I'm curious how different they might be from the wild flowers we get here :)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Places like that are so important, and not just for bees! I like the way there is one extra tall daisy, like a schoolchild eager to tell the answer! ("I know, teacher, look at me...)

Those flowers are quite tall enough to conceal a couple of lust-drunk midshipmen.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Places like that are so important, and not just for bees!
No indeed! They're important for me too! Good for the soul :)

The flowers are definitely tall enough to hide a pair of amorous midshipmen. Of course I think of them every time I stop and look at the meadow. You have made that association real and indelible.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Exactly the sort of place where I'd love to be right now...

I've found over the years that it's really hard to photograph large swathes of wild flowers.
THIS!!! *groans*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Why are they so hard to take pictures of? WHY???! I've been taking pictures of this meadow for several years now and although I've got lots of lovely pictures of the individual flowers I still can't capture the whole thing. Of course the fact that I haven't actually got a camera might have something to do with it. There's only so much you can expect of an iPhone :}

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Dragonflies are spectacular! They're like flying jewels. I've got several things in my garden that are a magnet for bees. I saw an amazing white bee in the garden once and it turned out to be a rare species that's usually found on the south coast of England!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

It is indeed :)