In the Wild: Monkshood

How amazing. I don't think I have ever seen Monkshood except on Goy.

dont they look wonderful in their natural position

Gorgeous have these myself.

I'm too scared to have them!!

Thank you for the comments. I love this dark and stringy wild version, Aconitus delphinifolium. Mine in the garden is tall and thick compared to these very spare beauties. This was a mid summer walk and the wildflowers were gorgeous!

they grow wild next to our garden

Oh, wonderful!

but they are out in early summer.

These blooms are coming about 6 weeks after the last frost. That is about midsummer here, we get 8 weeks more before autumn.

autumn is here now ~ apparently it started 9.04 on friday!!??

We began our yellow 8.20 and chancing hard frost or snow daily now. I can't believe it cooled off already there.

it hardly seems possible. i noticed there was a threat of snow in north west scotland on wednesday [oldest son is there walking so i kept an eye on the forecast]
so you call autumn 'yellow' ??

Interesting that you north people have such a variety of blue flowers growing wild...
We have a lot of red, oranges, yellows, pink, but blue is not common.

i dont have many red or orange flowers ~ my garden is cool and shady.

We are very blue here in Alaska Aleyna. Working in the Nursery, most customer were looking for something other than blue. I hadn't really thought about that until now. Even my own garden is getting a little too blue for me. That is interesting.

Sticki, I call autumn yellow. In Fairbanks, we have evergreen and gold for our autumn colors. We saw a blush of orangey-red on the tops of some balsam poplars this year, unusual. So we go yellow, gold, brown, white.....lol.

and we have
spring ~ pastels
summer ~ hot yellow, red, purple
autumn ~ green, brown, gold, red
winter ~ white, dark green