There are certainly more summer wildflowers to show you, and a few pf them haven't even bloomed yet. And as I've said it is increasingly hard to find them inside town - see the 'monster' at the end below.
No this is not a Dandelion, it's the seedhead of a Goatsbeard, much larger than that of a dandelion.
One of my favourites is the Chicory, which has just nicely started blooming. I love the soft blue colour of these.
This is a tiny yellow flower that grows right in your lawn, or at least it does in ours. Leaves much like clover leaves, and that small blossom. In spite of there being no woods nearby, it's a Wood Sorrel.
You may not have even noticed these even tinier blooms, the Black Medic. It's ubiquitous to grass along our boulevard, but so small you walk right over it without realizing.
Purple Vetch is widely used for erosion control, and grows anywhere it's not mowed too often.
And this is the flower-eating monster, a huge mower that can reach out into ditches and completely destroy any nice wildflowers. Our municipality feels it's necessary to destroy all these flowers!
Here's what the monster left behind, a roughly cut ditch. ....
And here's what that ditch looked like two weeks ago. What harm were these Buttercups doing anyone?
I guess the council or whatever municipal body is in your area, needs to justify your rates, and use up some of that money!! Lovely colours in all those flower heads.
ReplyDeleteI saw some chicory this morning and couldn't remember what it was called. Thanks!! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame about the monster. I love the colour of chicory too.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the wildflowers too. You featured some beauties. Haven’t seen any Chicory yet this year. It’s a beauty!
ReplyDeleteI see most of the same wildflowers (weeds) that you picture except for Black Medic and Wood Sorrel. I wonder if we have them out here.
ReplyDeleteThere was a ditch with fab wildflowers here. I went back to photograph them, but the monster had gotten them. OTOH I see wild parsnip in another ditch that I wish they would get rid of or at least put a warning sign up.
ReplyDeleteI also love the color of chicory, and I am so sorry your monster is killing innocent wildflowers!
ReplyDeleteWe have a few of those flower gobbling Monsters in our area as well. We also have a couple tree branch gobbling Monsters that do the same thing to roadside tree branches. It doesn't cut the branches off neatly, it mashes, smashes, and bashes, them branches off..
ReplyDeleteSad that the wildflowers have to be mowed. Here they do it so we can see the deer grazing in the ditches:(
ReplyDeleteChicory is such a lovely colorand i guess i named the goatsbeard wrongly! Woops!
ReplyDeleteThe monster is evil!
Municipalities have a fear of weeds. So do HOAs. At least the monster was cutting them down instead of spraying them with pesticide.
ReplyDeleteI think Linda has it right. Homeowners don't want weeds invading their pristine lawns. Or mosquitoes and other bugs.
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot of chicory growing wild along our major highways as well as gravel roads. I just read a blog where they came in and destroyed the ditch of flowers because they wanted the water to drain away better.
ReplyDeletePoor thinking by the Council.
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