A selection of yellow flowers in bloom at the moment, starting with Anthemis![]()
Evening primrose has a very long flowering period, right up until the first frosts.
Lady's bedstraw, a native wild flower that weaves its way between other plants in the border and fills the gaps with a mist of tiny yellow flowers.
A lily whose label I lost long ago, but that blooms well every year, even in the current drought.
A few years ago I grew several Verbascum species that seeded themselves everywhere, so that a random assortment flowers every year - I can't remember what this large-flowered species is, but it's a very handsome plant.
The yellow knapweed Centaurea macrocephala. Those little black dots are pollen beetles, that are irresistibly drawn to yellow flowers - in vast numbers.
I saw some opium poppies in pink last week. All heaving with small beetles-pollen beetles?
ReplyDeleteLove the Yellow Knapweed.
ReplyDeleteIs there something Fibonacci-esque going on in the middle of the Anthemis?
Hi Chris, my sweet peas have been absolutely infested with pollen beetles, that all emerge from the keel petal when I bring them indoors
ReplyDeleteYou're right Rob, they do follow a mathematically-determined pattern but I can't remember exactly how it works.
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