Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs

33 responses to “Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs”

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   Aditix

   August 8, 2014

   These wildflowers are beautiful. 🙂

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      Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

      August 9, 2014

      They are aren’t they? Thank you for your comment 🙂

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   jpeggytaylor

   August 8, 2014

   Lovely Summer wildflowers 🙂 Knapweed is a favourite in our family too … especially for bee-on-a-flower photo opportunities 🙂
   [From the way the flowers grow, I think your willowherb looks like it is most probably Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) rather than Rosebay Willowherb … here’s my Rosebay to compare – http://oaktreesstudio.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/purple-wildflowers-of-summer/ :)]

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      Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

      August 8, 2014

      Thank you Peggy, I knew I could depend on your expertise. I have looked at your post to compare the willowherbs – amazing photos by the way – and I have to say I can’t tell the difference so I am impressed by your knowledge. Babs comes across as confident but she only knows what google tells her 😉

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         jpeggytaylor

         August 8, 2014

         You are welcome, Violet. I think that post was something of a family effort on the photos!

         I think it can sometimes be difficult to identify ‘unknown’ plants just from photos … I was tussling with one myself just last evening 😉
         The main differences between the two willowherbs are:
         Great Willowherb flowers are larger and have a white/pale central ‘eye’;
         Rosebay Willowherb has four separated petals whereas the four petals of Great Willowherb tend to be slightly larger and overlap each other at the base;
         on Rosebay Willowherb the flowers all grow together in a terminal spike whereas on Great Willowherb the flowers are rather more separated from each other on the plant.
         Both plants are very common and are often found growing in clumps in the same area, though Great Willowherb is more likely on damper ground.

         I enjoyed the fascinating plant lore Babs found to go with her pics 😉 I love learning about all the old medicinal uses of plants through the ages.

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            Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

            August 9, 2014

            Thank goodness for your indepth knowledge – now I can approve this comment and all this info will be included under the post for me (and others) to refer back to. Thanks Peggy 🙂

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            jpeggytaylor

            August 9, 2014

            oh you are very welcome Violet 🙂

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   Sarah

   August 7, 2014

   Wonderful. 🙂 Is Babs going to do more of these?

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      Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

      August 7, 2014

      Thank you, and yes, I think it will be hard to stop her now. She’s a wannabe Blue Peter presenter 😉

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         Sarah

         August 7, 2014

         Well, she’s doing a great job so far. 😀

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            Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

            August 7, 2014

            Thanks Sarah, I’ll pass that on 😉

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   andromeda65

   August 7, 2014

   Great fun post 🙂 Enjoyed it thoroughly….Thanks Miranda, Violet and Babs!

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      Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

      August 7, 2014

      So glad you enjoyed it 😉 thanks for the lovely comment

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   E.D.

   August 7, 2014

   love wildflowers – UK has some very interesting ones. i miss them. eve

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      Violet’s Veg*n e-comics

      August 7, 2014

      We’ve seen so many different ones this year – amazing 🙂

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