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Favourite flowers in Findhorn - 2010
Through the year 2010 I monthly choose a favourite photo of the many I made, on the subject of flowering trees, plants and shrubs around Findhorn. Enjoy them with me.
January favourite:
Cobwebbed gorse in blossom at the Findhorn dunes. There is such bravery to be found in gorse, blossoming in spring and then again, mid winter in the north of Scotland. Message: Don’t give up!
February 2010 favourite:
Immense waves of white snowdrops announcing the Spring to come. At the beautiful estate of Logie Steading, Moray.
March 2010 favourite:
yellow flowering winter Aconites (Eranthis, of the Ranunculacea buttercup family) in our Findhorn gardens.
April 2010 favourite:
After a long winter the blossoms finally opened/ Here the white flowering hedges at Cullerne Gardens in Findhorn.
May 2010 favourite:
Dark red blossoms of the Japanese Cherry tree. Spring and Summer all at once in May. Everything blossoms, from daffodils, roses, fruit tree blossoms to the shrubs like lilac and magnolia. The gardens in The Park and Findhorn dunes full of gold yellow gorse embrace us in their fabulous colours and sweet fragrance, here in the north of Scotland.
June 2010 favourite:
The seed head of a dandelion. (Taraxacum officinale). You might not want their seeds to spread in your garden, but they look so beautiful; a world by themselves. As a child I always liked to pick them and blow the seeds around.
July 2010 favourite:
A group of Spear Thistles in the Moray dunes. Guessing this is the Cirsium vulgare - or Cluaran Deilgneach in gaelic-scottish - which is widely spread in Scotland. This one better be called 'Scots Thistle' instead of the Cotton- or Scot thistle, which is the national Scottish emblem, but is rarely found in Scotland.
August 2010 favourite:
Between Lamas (1st of August) and the end of this month is a real harvest time, and the first vegetables already go into flower. I was surprised by the abundance of the blue Harebell (Campanula rotundifolio) in the Findhorn dunes this year.
September favourite:
Sweet fragrances in the gardens and lateron between your sheets in the cupboard, when the lilac lavender flowers are collected and dried. The Lavandula Angustifolia is also loved by bees and other insects, here a visiting ladybird.
October blossoming favourite:
A wonderful purple flowering surprise: the Autumn Crocus, botanical name Crocus nudifloris or Colchicum in the Findhorn gardens. This plant resembles the Spring crocus, but grows in Autumn in the northern hemisphere . Another name for it is 'naked lady'. The poisenous but medicinal plant, is in danger of extinction.
November favourite:
A travel image: There is a wood full of cactus "Cardónes" in the north-west of Argentina and they just started to flower.
December favourite:
In an early winter full of snow these colourful leaves stood out in Park Garden at the Findhorn Foundation.
Have a look at the favourites photos of 2009.