Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs

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Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs

11.6.2025

Why don’t you see what types of wild flowers are in your area?

It would help if you had a field guide like this one, which you could probably borrow from your local library or, if you're lucky, you might be able to get one cheap at a charity shop. — It would help if you had a field guide like this one, which you could probably borrow from your local library or, if you’re lucky, you might be able to get one cheap at a charity shop.

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Pictures by Miranda, Words by Violet 🙂

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33 responses to “Wild Flower Appreciation with Babs”

Aditix

August 8, 2014

These wildflowers are beautiful. 🙂

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1. 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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1. 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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  1. 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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    1. 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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    2. 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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1. 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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  1. Sarah
    
    August 7, 2014
    
    Well, she’s doing a great job so far. 😀
    
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    1. 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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1. 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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1. Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  August 7, 2014
  
  We’ve seen so many different ones this year – amazing 🙂
  
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