Bank of Wild Mertensia

its great at this time of year to see all of natures lovelys popping up on th roadsides....

We bloom in a big rush. Everything at once. This is our spring, maximum at Solstice. To follow are many more. I'm collecting our wild flowers for the garden this year. :-)

i/ve only just started taking notice of them. i have more time to notice these things now the kids are grown up. our wild ones all seem to come early summer too.

I love them. I got into gardening learning medicinal use of our wild species starting in Idaho and then wild species here. I've always loved them. Now I've a cultivation love, spoiling those good things....the garden!

when is a weed a weed??? i have a niegbour who encorages the wild flowers to grow alng side the more frilly varieties. i love her garden. i have been weeding for weeks to get my garden ready for my open day. but there are plenty left but i always say that on my open day all remaining weeds are now called wild flowers...lol

Good way to see it. I groom the area more than mow, hand picking just what I don't want to see, to encourage what I do. :-) Those natural treasures usually reward you spoiled like that.