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Blue-Mauve Perfection

I walked down to the shore this morning and observed a profusion of blue-mauve scabious flowers growing on the meadow. This beautiful bloom is known as the pincushion flower or devil’s bit Blue-Mauve Perfection Blue-mauve perfection as brilliant floral globes glow in the meadow Sue Wood

Wonderful Nature

Wonderful Nature traNquility enchAnting theaTrical natuRal vibRant bejEwelled Sue Wood

Fantastic Flowers

Oxeye daisies grow with abundance along the roadsides on the isle of Skye. They attract many different pollinators. A lovely sign of Summer. The petal-plucking game, ‘He loves me; he loves me not’, is thought to have started with the oxeye daisy, and is now a common children’s activity. While thinking of a suitor, eachContinue reading “Fantastic Flowers”

Thistles

I visited the croft this morning and saw several spear thistles standing tall. They were attracting lots of insects; butterflies, hover flies and bees. Here is an excerpt of a poem I wrote last Summer. Thistles Majestic crowns, no blooms could surpass, Standing tall above feathery grass. At Summer’s end they fade and die, DispersingContinue reading “Thistles”