Picture(s) of the day....

[bobins]

A slightly unusual plant, but not two different coloured flowers on one stem in case you wondered.

Odd plant - own work

[myglaren]

That is unusual.

[bobins]

"Melampyrum nemorosum is an herbaceous flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to Europe. In Sweden it is called natt och dag. (Night and Day) In Russia it is called Ivan-da-Marya. (Ivan and Maria) a Christianisation of the traditional Slavic Kupalo-da-Mavka (Kupalo-and-Mavka).

This is an annual plant. The new leaves are blue, turning green as they mature. They are usually toothed at the bases. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melampyrum_nemorosum

[myglaren]

I just mentioned to a neighbour yesterday that I have only seen two butterflies this year.

Her is the third, cleverly disguised against the background. Thinks it's a cabbage white.

[Rp0thejester]

Ain't falling for it, put an arrow if it's there

[myglaren]

First Peony Poppy out. Pretty weedy, should be four feet tall.

The Sandeman man came for it, they make a special port from them.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Foxgloves, in seasonal profusion and compelling a shutter click on a little visit to Roxburgh, a little hamlet which surprisingly proved to be the subject of today's "One for the Train buffs" here

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Digitalis Roxburiens
Falcon Original

Neil

[Peter.N.]

Lovely Neil. Some years ago they cut the trees down in the forest above our garden, my wife was bemoaning the mess when shortly afterwards the whole area was covered in foxgloves, never seen anything like it. Whether the seeds were lying dormant and the sun reaching them caused this I don't know - but something did.

That must have been some time ago as they have just cut the trees down again! They were larch and apparently picked up some disease.

Peter

[mickthemaverick]

Didn't Flanagan and Allen sing a song about those foxgloves Peter? Underneath the Larches.....

[bobins]

I have a feeling that foxglove seeds can lie dormant in the ground in the right conditions for up to 100 years...... or something daft like that.

[Peter.N.]

Didn't Flanagan and Allen sing a song about those foxgloves Peter? Underneath the Larches.....

You're that old are you.

Peter

Interesting Bobins.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Waxoyl and Hammerite.
100 POTD points for an original photo posted up on this very thread of either by the end of play today.

If you are a regular viewer or poster on POTD you may well have noticed POTD Can special and the Waxoyl and Hammerite Challenge.

Sadly the challenge expired without a single entry and loose ends need tying up.

Virtually every traditional hardware store in the United Kingdom will have a display of Hammerite and Cuprinol!

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and POTD Can day lives on.

In the first couple of decades of the 20^th Century, the 2 gallon can was the motor spirit infrastructure for the motor car.

Falcon Original

Neil

[myglaren]

My secret Hamerite stash.

[NewcastleFalcon]

My secret Hamerite stash.

Excellent, proper Finnigans tins as well Steve

Neil