wild flowers 2

One week on and the number of wild flowers just grows and grows. I wish my orchard was covered in flowers like this one is. Mine just grows nettles, bracken and brambles. I suppose it's because mine has been neglected for years! Maybe in a few years I will have some pretty flowers as well.

The tall nameless plant now has flowers showing. This has certainly made it more easy to identify, it is almost certainly Asphodelus albus or White Asphodel.

This picture, above, shows the flowers fairly well but the leaves belong to something else.

This photo shows the leaves, it also shows another plant which interests me. I have always thought that Broom and Gorse were the same, now I discover that, not only are they different, but that there are lots of variations. This photo above shows a white variety next door to a more common yellow one. When I say more common, the yellow varieties are to be found in books on British Flora, but the white variety is by far the more common around here.

I believe this may be Retama raetum, a native of the Middle East that seems to be spreading.

Another flower that have never seen growing wild in England is the Helianthemum or Rock Rose, this is widespread here and very pretty.

It's beginning to look like all the flowers here are white, this is far from being the case, though there certainly are plenty of white flowers.

This is the Bugle or Ajuga reptans,

and this is the Common Fumitory or Fumaria officinalis.