Wednesday 15 August 2012

An Abundance of Wild Flowers

A sea of white daisies (scentless mayweed, I think) in the field beside the Serpentine Walk. Perhaps because of the weather conditions wild flowers seem particularly prolific this year.
A large patch of meadow crane's-bill alongside the old railway track.
Meadowsweet by the track.
A bank of wild thyme above the beach in Lower Largo.
A field of creeping thistles by the ruined salt-pan houses in Largo. They were attracting tortoiseshell butterflies and hoverflies.

Field scabious along the path on the railway track.
A patch of the Scottish bluebell or harebell on the Massney Braes at Lundin Links. A more delicate flower than the wild hyacinth also known as bluebell that blooms in the spring
In a completely different setting wild flowers which have been seeded on to a roundabout in Leven. It looks stunning and I much prefer this to the more formal displays.

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