Thursday, June 12, 2008

Flowers

England has a number of beautiful flowers, several of which I've never seen before. Today's list is thirty pictures of flowers that Michelle and Maggie took in a short walk around Merstham.































1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Okay you guys, this is just an irresistable chance for me to see if I can Name These Plants!! Here we go...if I can't list them all in one entry, I will continue on another. Love, your (plant nerd) Aunt Mary.

1)Uh oh, hate to start out on a dud, but I am not sure what this is-- looks like a tulip, but not this late, right? Maybe a type of daylily?

2) Some lovely roses, of course.

3) Purple pansies, very sweet.

4) Spirea-- a showy form.

5) I think this is Senecio greyi in flower. Nice!

6) One you are not likely to know from 'bama-- too hot there for this lovely yellow corydalis.

7)Foxgloves, (digitalis) with more roses behind.

8) Uhhh-- some small minty thing in bloom, maybe...

9) Wow, nice white cup and saucer, aka campanula, bellflower...

10)...and a nice pink form of the campanula.

11) Lychnis coronaria, aka rose campion. I would love to hear all the different names the English have for these!

12) hmmm, maybe a mock orange? I bet this smelled good!

13) More roses!

14)...and yet more roses.

15) And another foxglove, white.

16) I'm stumped. Proving you can't know it all, thank goodness.

17) A begonia.

18) A kind of geranium-- the species type, not the hothouse kind. This is one of my alltime fave plants. A common one is, believe me, "Johnson's blue," which this might be!

19) Some cool lookin osteospermum-- a type of african daisy.

20) Orange rose!

21) Another species geranium, pink.

22) Those same campanula, only a smaller variety of bellflower.

23) Begone, begonia.

24) Knifophia, aka Red Hot Poker, for obvious reasons. You can grow this down south.

25) and a rose!

Hey, that's only 25!! But what a great garden tour for me, I really had fun! Thanks Michelle!

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