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Blooming Colour

The sunshine was hot and the colours are everywhere. Each year this tree just explodes with blossoms and I love the colour, especially the way it contrasts against today's blue sky. I wonder if I can find yarn in those shades...

In Holyrood Park there was much colour to be found and we walked up to Dunsapie Loch, around Dunsapie Crag and then meandered our way down through the woods...

My eye was caught by the colour and texture of these larch leaves. It's good to see the larch trees going green again, although some of the branches in the shade were still bald cone bearers...

This beautiful bloom demands that I invest in a wildflower book because I have no idea what it is called. I couldn't find it in any of my herbals either. Maybe it's not a wildflower, maybe it's an escaped garden plant... something that didn't want to be tamed and pruned anymore. I empathise.


I do know the name of this beauty though, and there was a great show of Harebells (Scottish Bluebells) in three different colours. There are nettles and sticky willies in there too - and I discovered that Crocs don't protect one from what nettles do (!) and we couldn't see a Dock leaf anywhere. I recalled nettles stings at Belt Croft when a Dock leaf would only work until I got home to Grandma and she could doctor me up with the bottle of pink Calamine Lotion. How we looked as we paraded around with our chalky pink splodges, badges of honour after a day in the fields...

The leaves are slowly unveiling themselves too...

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Posted on April 27, 2008 in .

4 Responses to “Blooming Colour”

  1. Sue Bailey says:
    April 28, 2008 at 8:23 am

    I believe your violet flower is honesty: we have some of it growing in the farmyard. It’s such a generous flower with those lovely big blooms and then the amazing seed pods later.

  2. seventh sister says:
    April 29, 2008 at 1:15 am

    Beautiful shots….I’m glad you found a wonderful place to go.

  3. GreenishLady says:
    April 29, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    Oh beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Those are different to the harebells I know – they grow by the sea and are a single blue bell-shaped flower on a really fine stem. It always interests me the different names plants get in different places. Your “Sticky willies” are out “Sticklebacks”. Nettles, however, seem to be nettles everywhere, (except that my grandfather would say “Nickles”)

    Great photos.

  4. tammy vitale says:
    April 30, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    thanks for taking us along on your walk! lovely! I’d go for the phlox family for your unknown flower, but I don’t know Sue’s Honesty so maybe that’s it.

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