You have seen lots of these pages already but I thought I would show them together.
I have started to look at the flowers that grow along a ridge in the middle of one of our nearby fields. It is a hayfield that cattle graze in at times but this ridge is always overgrown allowing wild flowers and insects to thrive. I started to make a list of the flowers growing there. Of course it changes during the year and it seems year to year because I wrote a list in July 2016 and no rosebay willowherb this year.
It is covered in the pink and white discs of field bindweed and the wind ripples through the grasses like seaweed in the water. Hoping to make some embroideries from this work. Starting gently with drawing the flowers in my journal. We have Haggis the dog for the next 12 days so more walks to help with the observatio.
I had to look up rosebay willowherb. I don't think we have that here. Very pretty. Love your journal.
ReplyDeleteAh Stephanie knows it as fireweed. It likes to grow on disturbed ground. It grows on verges here but not always in the same places each year.
Deletelove seeing the beauty in your fields through your eyes and hands
ReplyDeleteThank you, we are so blessed to have these beautiful fields around us.
DeleteLove your description of the wind rippling through the grasses. We live surrounded by great trees and hills and mountains (on the coast of Northern California) which doesn't allow wide such wide expanses. We do have rosebay willow herb behind the house but it's known as fireweed here. It has bloomed reliably each year. I do enjoy seeing your wildflowers, grasses, and all.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that new name. Fireweed because it grows on disturbed ground after fires presumably? I love learning the names of all these wild flowers, I am hoping that the journal will help me to remember them!
ReplyDeleteAhhhh that lovely strip of land with wildflowers !!!
ReplyDelete(drawing with one flower next to you in a little pot is soooo much fun :-) !)
yes utterly beautiful! Drawing is so peaceful whatever it turns out like.
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