Daisies with Raindrops

The daisies have started blooming!!

It must be summer!

I am linking this with Nature Footsteps Blo-Ma.

 

Daisy

Daisies with Dew

If there is anything prettier than a daisy,

 It has to be a daisy with dewdrops.

 

Daisy with Dewdrops

Daisy

Daisy

I love this daisy with the dewdrops and the bit of grass for contrast.

Dewdrops

There was not a lot of dew left on the vipers bugloss or the red clover by the time we got to them,

but the dandelions

and daisies were covered with it.

Even the birdsfoot trefoil had dewdrops!

My Garden

I have been showing you all the gardens around town, and not my own.
These are the blossoms of the ladys mantle plant. I should get some of them cut and dried for the winter.

The sweet cecily is going to seed. I sometimes chop some of them into a salad.

The Solomon's seal started in the next yard, but is creeping into mine. I don't see a reason to complain. Neither does Jake - this means the facilities are closer to the back door.

I have no idea what the names of my peonies are - I simply enjoy them, especially with the early morning light streaming through the petals.

I will pull out most of the daisies after they have finished blooming.

Last year, there was some confusion between mullein and lambs ears, so this year, when I found a mullein plant growing right beside the lambs ears, I took photos of the two of them, for comparison.

The lambs ears are blooming. I love the soft hairs!

The chamomile is just starting to blossom.

And these are the first borage blossoms. I bought the seeds once, and now they come up all through the garden. I leave a lot of them to grow, because I love the flowers in salad. Nothing else can add that shade of blue to a salad. The young leaves, when chopped up, taste a bit like cucumber, too.

Today's Flowers

I am learning about the wild flowers found in the area. This is meadow salsify, which looks a lot like goatsbeard, but does not have the enlarged stem behind the flower.

And daisies are one of the flowers that everyone knows.

How about sweet clover? Very different from the spherical flower heads of the red or white clover.

This is birdsfoot trefoil. There is a lot of it growing in the lawns in the parks, now that the city is not spraying so much.

And vipers bugloss grows in the waste ground, before much else can get a toehold there.