Surrounded by Nature
Another post from my 21 months stuck in Devon, UK. Not as many words as usual, as this is mainly a photo essay. From numerous walks in the countryside and the garden, this is a curation of my own photography during this period capturing the seasons and blooms.
I can't name most of these flowers, so I'm going to number each photo and upvote all comments which can identify them! If you can name them, please leave a comment :)
(1) Can you name this yellow flower?
(2) This one I do know, this is a raspberry bush flowering to get pollinated and produce fruit
(3) A beautiful lily flower in the pond, caught at midday whilst fully open and a bumblebee just happens to be on the case collecting pollen also ...
(4) What we call 'Devon Daisies' and these grow almost year round, and can be found wherever the conditions are right, they like to grow out of stony granite walls on the whole. You find them mostly in Devon and not many other parts of the country afaik.
(5) Can you name this one? I think it is Common Mallow, feel free to correct me :)
(6) Early Springtime, and bluebells come out all over the forest floor
(7) A dandelion 'moon' ... 3 phases of this flower are sun, moon, and stars. Sun the flower, here the moon, and when the seeds spread, stars.
(8) Dragonflies bonking in the pond!
(9) Another view of Devon Daisies. They very from white to pink colors.
(10) More daisies ... these things grow wherever they get the chance. However they are very difficult to propagate, i.e. you try to transplant and they usually fail. They only grow where they want to!
(11) Very tiny blue flowers, I think it might be known as 'blue eyed grass'. Looks stunning under a macro lens.
(12) as (11) above
(13) Bees are out pollinating in the garden. Unidentified garden plant.
(14) Blackberries in between ripening, yet some hungry birds seem to have had a go at these already. There will be plenty more and enough to pick and freeze come end of the summer.
(15) Macro close up of Dandelion moon.
(16) I really don't know what this is! Some kind of Magnolia perhaps?
(17) When you pay attention you note how flowers are able to rotate around through the day, and capture the sun head on ... another unidentified wildflower
(18) Anyone know that this is?
(19) Butterfly on Greater Stichwort
Thanks for reading!
A different post to the norm, hope you enjoyed these wild flowers of the Devon countryside! Perhaps one fine day in the distant future, I'll learn to identify more of them. Meanwhile, would love to hear from any experts out there so I can update the captions. Check out my other posts which range from petrolhead to travel to nerdy topics and other walks in nature, as well as covering Thailand where I am now based. Would love it if you'll join me with a follow, like and a comment :)