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Post by NellyDee on Aug 7, 2017 12:48:59 GMT
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Post by rowanberry on Aug 7, 2017 13:43:47 GMT
Is this the first one? www.gartenspaziergang.de/lein1_m.JPGIf it is, it might be Linum perenne, or one of the other flaxes. Wikipedia says that it's native to Europe, especially in the Alps. It' a very pretty flower! |
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 7, 2017 18:37:32 GMT
The second is a scabious- probably garden form.
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 8, 2017 9:26:48 GMT
Is this the first one? www.gartenspaziergang.de/lein1_m.JPGIf it is, it might be Linum perenne, or one of the other flaxes. Wikipedia says that it's native to Europe, especially in the Alps. It' a very pretty flower! Yes it is the first one. Come up on area of land where 8ft deep trench for drainage was dug, the earth, stones, tree stumps etc was then reformed to decent land shape and left to see what appeared - apart that is from various types of grass seed sprinkled over. It certainly does look like Linum perenne. Aeashna saying second one is probably a garden form of Scabious make me wonder if both are garden forms and were planted at some point in the far distant past, though the area was just grazing land then until the railway was built across it circa 1890 |
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