[Theme] Li'l Flowers

[Lars Hansen]

Li'l li'l flowers - umbellifers can be intriguing close up. The Ground elder has very small flowers .. and when looking closer, a lot of very small beetles.   

[Fons Baerken]

Hawthorne in full flower in spring so wonderful! A dutch name for it is 'meidoorn', which translates into 'maythorne'(lib.).

[Fons Baerken]

Solanum lycopersicum, or tomato

Z7  Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

[Fons Baerken]

Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'

Z7  Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

[ColinM]

Solanum lycopersicum, or tomato

Ahhh, the staff of life
(well, a mainstay of my life anyway)
I got my own "beefsteak-style" plants into the greenhouse a few weeks ago. Tomatillos are ready for planting out too.

If you grow too, may your garden reward you this year Fons

[Akira]

Li'l li'l flowers - umbellifers can be intriguing close up. The Ground elder has very small flowers .. and when looking closer, a lot of very small beetles.   

These are pretty and so delicate!

[Fons Baerken]

Ahhh, the staff of life
(well, a mainstay of my life anyway)
I got my own "beefsteak-style" plants into the greenhouse a few weeks ago. Tomatillos are ready for planting out too.

If you grow too, may your garden reward you this year Fons

Thanks Colin its been too cold actually and i got most of my tomatoes in large pots outside the greenhouse reason lack of space!
Except for growing from seed, i get a number of grafted plants for an earlier crop.

[Lars Hansen]

Hawthorne in full flower in spring so wonderful! A dutch name for it is 'meidoorn', which translates into 'maythorne'(lib.).

Many thanks Fons - I agree! And they also spread a special scent. In danish, 'Hvidtjørn' translates into 'Whitethorn'. My understanding is that there are 3 species in Denmark.

These are pretty and so delicate!

Many thanks Akira! - glad you like them. In Denmark, many consider them a really annoying weed! However, the fresh sprouts are edible and rich in vitamins and should have a light pepper/carrot taste. I spend quite some time removing them in my backyard .. especially where they are visible and close to my neighbours gardens


These small blue li'l flowers are called Ærenpris in danish - Speedwell - also considered a weed I think, but here from a meadow/bogland.           

[mxbianco]

Ophrys sp.

A Spider Orchid in the Apennines' grasslands

Nikon Z7 + FTZ + AFS- μNikkor 60mm/2.8

Ciao from Massimo

[Lars Hansen]

Ophrys sp.

A Spider Orchid in the Apennines' grasslands
Ciao from Massimo

Very special orchid, Massimo!

Small strawberry plants (Fragaria vesca - wild strawberry) with small white flowers are spreading in my backyard.

[ColinM]

Small strawberry plants (Fragaria vesca - wild strawberry) with small white flowers are spreading in my backyard.

Lovely Lars
Year ago I found some of these growing wild and the flavour of the fruit was 10x better than any "normal" strawberry
I inherited a patch in my garden when I moved house. They are "ok" but not as good as the ones I remembered

Meanwhile, here are my (not so) Li'l flowers
D500 and 180mm ED (at last - a picture taken with a real camera!)

[ColinM]

So these are a little more little....
I think this is Valerian (please advise if correct or not)
D500 and 180mm ED

[Fons Baerken]

So these are a little more little....
I think this is Valerian (please advise if correct or not)
D500 and 180mm ED

Centranthus ruber Coccineus

[Akira]

Many thanks Akira! - glad you like them. In Denmark, many consider them a really annoying weed! However, the fresh sprouts are edible and rich in vitamins and should have a light pepper/carrot taste. I spend quite some time removing them in my backyard .. especially where they are visible and close to my neighbours gardens


These small blue li'l flowers are called Ærenpris in danish - Speedwell - also considered a weed I think, but here from a meadow/bogland.           

Lars, thank you for the details.  I hope people to find a good use for them.  Some species seem to be valued even for medical purposes.

The blue ones are pretty, too!

[mxbianco]

Cotinus coggygria

Flowers are microscopic pink filaments, when grouped the size is beyond the 10mm limit. but individually they fall within the allowed size range for lil' flowers.

In France this bush is known as l'arbre aux perruques, or Wig Tree. In Italy, L'Albero della Nebbia, or Fog Tree

Nikon Z7 + Viltrox NFZ + Sigma Art 24mm/1.4

Ciao from Massimo