August already! And for this week’s six a slight deviation. Instead of my garden, I thought I’d share some of the lovely native flowers along our bog road, which is a small track just at the end of our own drive.
- First one of my favourite late summer flowers – perennial sowthistles. It has been described to me as an Irish sunflower and it certainly fits that description well, as they can be over 1m tall.
Perennial sow thistle
2. Mint, Mentha aquatica – one of my favourite smells
Mentha aquatica
3. Next Purple-loosestrife, while native to Ireland this plant has become an invasive species in North America.
Purple-loosestrife
4. Greater willowherb , while it can take over does have a pretty flower.
Greater willowherb
5. Woundwort, as it’s names suggest was used as a herbal medicine to treat wounds. It is thought to have wound healing and antiseptic qualities.
Woundworth
6. And finally common knapweed, a late flowering summer plant loved by bees . Like woundwort it was also use medicinally to treat wounds, bruises, sores, and sore throats.
Common knapweed
Thank you to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday.
I love walking in wet land in summer and having the smell of mint from my underfoot trampling. Love the flowers, especially the perennial sowthistle which is so very beautiful
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It is such a wonderful smell alright. Glad you enjoyed the native flowers.
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Very much so!
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A lot like around here! I like the Purple-loosestrife but it looks very similar to a flower I featured this week! Is Greater Willowherb much different to Rosebay Willowherb?
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The flowers on the rosebay sort of rise to a spike while on the greater willow herb they hangs more uniformly around the stem
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They are pretty flowers though despite being classified as a weed.
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Beautiful shots– though they may be called ‘weeds’ they are lovely and quite useful.
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Exactly Eliza – most of them are good pollinator plants too
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I enjoy seeing indigenous vegetation from various areas. You have featured a lovely selection here.
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Thank you Anne, yes it is lovely to see native plants from around the world
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Lovely to be able to see so many lovely wildflowers on a short walk from home. Woundwort is a pretty wildflower, I prefer marsh woundwort to hedge woundwort. I have hedge woundwort as a garden weed and it makes a very poor garden plant. We have flowery lanes in Cornwall but the range of species is somewhat limited and I’d have to go some distance to find all of your six; not sure where I’d find that mint at all.
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We are lucky i Know. The track is gravelly so perfect for many species of wildflowers.
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Lovely flowers as usual Karina 😀 an enjoyable wander through the garden
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Thank you Brian
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We have lots of greater willowherb blooming at the moment – and we have a particularly spectacular sow thistle growing alongside the railings of the children’s play area in the park – it has obviously taken advantage of less weeding and mowing this year!
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Is the sow thistle the large perennial one too?
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I didn’t know there was a difference until now!
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