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Hi All
Can you name this wild flower please Thank you
- 26 Apr, 2017
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Yup latin name Cardamine pratensis.
26 Apr, 2017
Known also as Milkmaids, they prefer damp meadows and hedgerows and are the foodplant of the orange tip butterfly, which, sadly, I have not yet seen this spring although it is one of the earliest to appear, to coincide with the milkmaids.
26 Apr, 2017
I thought I could see Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley or what we used to call 'break your mother's heart'.
26 Apr, 2017
May well be but the only actual flower is Lady's Smock...
26 Apr, 2017
Yes MG, just got up and looked with fresh eyes, couldn't see the flower before, perhaps I might need to have my eyes tested.
27 Apr, 2017
Looks like Lady's Smock to me too but if you're superstitious, Longfor, then don't be tempted to pick the pretty flowers to take into the house. Superstition says that if you do lightning will strike your house. I would add that it might strike your car too, as happened to me. Not literally, but I scraped another car and did £900 worth of damage the day I'd brought the flowers into the house. I threw them straight out!
27 Apr, 2017
Mother would never have certain flowers in the house I just enjoy them :)
27 Apr, 2017
Ditto Moongrower! My mum and aunts would not allow may blossom in particular! I remember a big fuss when I walked into my aunt's kitchen with a few sprigs and being unceremoniously pushed out of the door!
27 Apr, 2017
White lilac was another flower my mother wouldn't have as well as May blossom. I think they were a lot more superstitious in those days.
I do prefer to see my flowers in the garden though and don't like to cut them.
28 Apr, 2017
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Hidden away in the pic is a plant that I would call Lady's Smock.
26 Apr, 2017