Hawkweed Seeds

Hawkweed Seed Parachutes

Most of the hawkweed has finished blooming for the summer

and the resulting seeds are ready to sail off to greener pastures.

Hawkweed in the Sun

The morning sun catches the tiny hairs

of the hawkweed,

and changes them all to gold.

Spiderweb

There was a fair amount of dew this morning, so the spiderwebs were brilliant lines of dewdrops.

Hawkweed

Purple Loosestrife

Purple loosestrife is an imported plant which is destroying a lot of coastlines in Canada.

It has no natural enemies, so most of the thousands of seeds produced by each plant are free to grow into next year's stand.

I do my small part by using it as a cut flower, where it lasts a long time.

And I do love the colour of it...

Hawkweed in the Sun

The early morning sun blazes through

the yellow petals of yellow hawkweed.