Early-ish yesterday morning, I poked my nose into the easement, which desperately needs mowing. But there are flowers — erigeron aka fleabane — along part of the fence.
Meanwhile, out front, the daisies are beginning to open. I am so pleased to have daisies again after a longish absence. I don't know why they failed previously, but I hope this plant flourishes for many a year.
There are only three flowers open now, but there are lots of buds.
Fleabane is simply the wild cousin of daisies ! Liked the pink frilly ones too.
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing fleabane opening also which is nice. I love the pinkish color some of them have before they fade. I like your little wild place!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know erigeron was also called Fleabane. I'm with you. Let them flower for a bit.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed the daisies really popping up along our country lane. Great swaths of them will be here until the blasted township comes along and mows everything down.
ReplyDeleteYour fleabane plot can be your wild garden!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen pink fleabane, just white. It's absolutely lovely. Don't mow it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful daisies. They are a cheerful flower!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flower images as is your typical (beautiful, I mean). I am thinking you must be still primarily using your phone still for images and not your DSLR, as you have not really had any intense “macro” photos of late.
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It's phone all of the way these days.
DeleteI love daisies. They look so happy.
ReplyDeleteIt is weird how some flowers will come up some years and not others, only to show up the next!
ReplyDeleteBack when I was able and did a lot of weed-eating, (string trimming) I loved being able to avoid the flowering weeds and left little clumps of beauty everywhere.. Hard to do with a mower.
ReplyDeleteThere are many such areas here in Indonesia where unfamiliar plants grow in utility areas, just like you described. I have no idea what they are. People here used to call them “eceng gondok.” In English, eceng gondok is called water hyacinth. Water hyacinth is a plant that spreads quickly in slow-moving or polluted rivers, so people often see it as a sign of dirty water.
ReplyDeleteGood morning from Indonesia.
They are pretty 😍
ReplyDeleteI’d definitely take your time with the mowing. It would be a pity to get rid of such pretty flowers. You have your own meadow :)
ReplyDeleteI see that I entered off to see if fleabane repelled fleas and I forgot to come back and leave a comment. my junkyard garden that I have spent so much time on has wildflowers that grew along the cultivated, bought and paid for flowers. I left them too. I just thinned them out.
ReplyDeleteThat area is great for the pollinators, so I'd leave it till fall.
ReplyDeleteI also would leave it till fall. I like the wild look and it's a good place for the pollinators. I planted daisies on my dog, Howard's, grave. I like daisies, too.
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