I’m always so busy at school in this period of the year, I really need spare time.
My tomato and peppers plants are still waiting under the porch to be transplanted in the vegetable garden, and today it is raining again (as usual, during the last week ends).
Meanwhile the wild flowers are blooming in the meadows…
1) in front of the house
2) esparcette
3) oxeye daisies
4) some flowers in a vase
5) tomato plants still waiting..
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Salvia pratensis
Blooming
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hoary plantain (plantago media)
Blooming
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Leucanthemum vulgare
Blooming
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esparcette (onobrychis viciifolia) Onobrychis viciifolia
Blooming
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yellow goat's beard (tragopogon pratensis) Tragopogon pratensis
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Previous Journals
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the old apple tree is blooming (May bloom day)
daffodil thalia Blooming, apple trees Blooming, and Old neglected garden
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elder-flowered orchid (dactylorhiza sambucina) Blooming, anacamptis morio Blooming, early purple ...
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daffodil Obvallaris , daffodil February Gold , tulip red impression , tulip golden parade , daffo...
Later Journals
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scarce swallowtail (iphiclides podalirius) , chives Blooming, lupin 'pinky' (from tralamander) B...
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grasshoppers and crickets , bees , meadow sage Blooming, and common daisy Blooming
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iris Dutch yellow and white Blooming, iris barbata (violet - old) Blooming, iris barbata Ambassa...
Comments
anelson wrote:
Your meadows are incredible.
Posted on 02 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
Mamabluestem wrote:
Beautiful meadow! And what a lovely bouquet!
Posted on 02 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
seeingreen wrote:
What fantastic flowery meadows – probably have never been sprayed with the usual agricultural chemicals, nor nitrogen fertilizers for such variety and density.
Posted on 03 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
glgardener wrote:
all your pictures are beautiful, but the one of the flowers in the vase is amazing!
Posted on 03 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
cristina wrote:
Thank you, Mamabluestem and glgardener!
@anelson and seeingreen: yes, there are so many weeds and wildflowers.. The local name of these meadows is “plain of the herd” (“pian della mandria”); untill 40 years ago they were pastures and no agricoltural chemical have ever been sprayed. It’s hard to keep under control this exuberant vegetation… after 4 years only one perennial foxglove survives out of 20 (and no volonteers, too much competion); and the same is happening to the daffodils planted 3 years ago….
Posted on 03 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
rosemarieGardener wrote:
cristina….did you plant/sow the wildflower meadow? It’s lovely. I love the wall of your house and the bench.
Posted on 04 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
cristina wrote:
@rosemarieGardener – no, I don’t sow the wildflowers, I only mow the meadow after the blooming, so the flowers can reseed. The wildflowers composition is different from year to year: this June, for example, there is less sage and more esparcette. Thank you for your comment about the house walls: they are old and very rustic (and 80 cm thick)
Posted on 04 Jun 12 (about 1 year ago)
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