This week I am combining my Six on Saturday with some of my favourite things.
The wildflower meadow is just coming into it’s own. One of my favourites parts of the garden.
I did say in a comment that I would post some of my yellow alliums this week. I just love flowers.
And these alliums are one of my favourites, they remind me of fireworks going off.
And of course I cannot post about my favourite things without including a photo of a bumblebee……………
And growing my own food is another love – broad beans with another bee!
And this year I am loving vetch, because there seems to be so much of it and the bees are loving it too.
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You are expert on knowing your flowers MM. I just know they’re colorful and beautiful! Great challenge combo!
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Thank you Tina. I wish knew more flowers but it is something you can always keep building on.
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So lovely to see the bumbles enjoying themselves in your flowers.
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They do seem to be having a good year:)
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Love your flower shots! The bee capture is so much fun. 🙂
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Thank you Amy:)
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Gorgeous shots, MM. Your love for these flowers and bees shines through!
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People will be getting bored of my bee shots!!
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I don’t think so, MM. Your nature photography is great. You have a real passion for it.
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Thank you Patti, that is so nice of you to say:)
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Never bored of your bee shots, especially when you tell us how to identify them. I have quite a bit of vetch growing and it is so pretty. The bees are going mad for my Purple Loosestife and Cerinthe – do they particualrly love purple flowers?
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It does seem that they do like purple blue and violet. Bees see a bit like us – but cannot see red – they base their colours on ultraviolet light, blue and green:
You can check out these interesting articles:
https://www.beeculture.com/bees-see-matters/
and
https://www.livescience.com/1643-bees-favorite-color.html
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Wow! Thank you – you really are a fount of knowledge.
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I did have to do a little bit of research there – I knew they saw slightly differently to us, but it was actually a conversation we had at the dinner table tonight – so I wanted to check my facts out anyway:)
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Don’t ever stop sending us bee shots…and flowers, and food, and…Just wonderful garden flowers, and I envy you your wildflower meadow. I am trying to get one, but it is difficult to make it work! Any advice is welcome! Love your allium as well – fireworks are a very good metaphor for them.
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My advice with flower meadow is patience:) Collect wild flower seed from the wild and sow in trays in the autumn and put somewhere sheltered. Once plants have germinated and grow big enough to handle plant into small pots. Once you have pots plants of about 4-5cm, plant out where you want them to grow. If you have lots of grass find flowers that parasitise grass roots – like Yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor.
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Very good advice, thank you! I always throw in seeds and try to keep moist, but that never works…This is something for this autumn!
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We have a lot of vetch in the garden this year too! I like the broad bean flowers; pretty.
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Thanks:)
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Marvelous detail in the first bee photo. Love a good yellow allium. Do you contain your vetch or let it run wild?
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I have lots of wild areas in garden and I let the vetch do it’s own thing there. It’s in our school garden too in the flower beds which I try and help maintain. I try and control it a bit there:)
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How lovely vetch is – another one to grow.. Keep hearing of yellow rattle as it controls the grasses in a flower meadow. Fingers crossed it works when we try to establish our small area.
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Good luck:)
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