I wander about throughout the year looking for the wildflowers, some are common, some are strange and some are rare. Here are four that I would like to show you. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) [/img]
What a treat. I am always interested in seeing wildflowers in all of their forms and colors. Would love to walk along and see them in a natural setting.
I have been fortunate enough to see so many that I had a great collection and was able to work with a publisher putting out three books, I was more or less editor for the coastal book with Dana doing the mountain book and another guy the dryland one. They were just small field guides.
Kildale what is that intriguing flower in the third photograph? It looks as though it may be a carniverous plant and is so unusual!! I have many native wildflowers growing in my garden - no they're NOT weeds that I've been too lazy to pull up - but they are there for the butterflies and bees to enjoy. They really look good amongst all the other plants and many people have commented on them not realising they're the very plants they get rid of when they appear.
It is Wild Ginger, people make tea with it. It is very hard to see as it flowers mainly under the leaves. I covers the ground spreading outwards. it is propagated by beetles
Eileen, I'm working on a page of 'weeds' for the nature site, I'm going to call it something like 'Wasteland Flowers'. I think people will be surprised just how neat many of there are.
I'll keep checking on your site to see the new page when it's ready Kildale. I wish more people would grow wildflowers in their gardens as they really don't know what they are missing. Thanks for IDing the plant for me - mmm I wonder if I could grow wild ginger here? I must check my 'Wiggly Wigglers' seed catalogue. (They have lots of different wildflowers seeds to buy.)
