Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 13th June, 2024)

It looks like a wild meadow for attracting our friends the Bees.
How nice.

Love to see wildflower gardens !

I like to see these wild gardens has long as they don't obstruct the view for traffic. There is nothing nicer that watching the bees flirting from flower to flower.Can you walk along the grass pathway or is it just for show?

Up here in Shevington we also have wild gardens flowers but we have left the front part cut grass, we think it looks much tidier that way.

Stuff the traffic .

You can walk on the grass PeterP and there are some seats where you can sit and watch the bees at work.

That's lovely. I love wild flowers. Probably a lot of the medicines prescribed in that health centre and dispensed from that chemists have their origin in wild plants and flowers.

It’s lovely all over the land to see the wild flowers. In fact because councils aren’t cutting the grass as much they seem to be growing at a more prolific rate especially with all the rain we’re having. Irene you are dead right - isn’t nature clever.

Possibly Irene , but more likely the ingredients originate from that industrial chemical plant in Wrexham .

You're absolutely right about that Ozy, now that things can be made artificially in a laboratory, and probably very speedily to meet the demand for medication, but the original medicines in past centuries came from plants. The heart tablet, Digitalis, was originally made from the foxglove, whose Latin name IS "Digitalis". But time and methods move on.

Lovely picture Dennis, the problem is with wild flowers is that they soon look very untidy, but that's nature for you.
I am sure the new modern Health Centre is welcomed by Aspullians, assuming they can get an appointment that is.
The architectural style however is out of keeping on that prominent corner but typical of many 21st Century new builds. The architects these days graduate from the school of 'No Real Imagination'.

Bee's hard at it !
Prospecting the flowers ,
Mining the sepals for sticky gold ,
Humming to herself like Hilda Ogden
Doing the chores ,
Disappearing into foxglove funnels ,
From goblets sips the scented vapour ,
And into her pollen basket drops
The sickly sweet stamens ,
Orbits like a lunar module over the petals ,
And touches down in petunia craters .

Poet

That looks lovely Dennis.
Re Wild flowers for medicines years ago.I am just reading a book called Copsford, a factual story how a man back in the 1940's spent a year deep in the heart of Sussex. He collected & dried wild plants & flowers that were need to make medicines. He names about 10 varieties that he collected, you can still see them around fields today. Quite amazing.

He likes the lilacs in my garden
I love to watch him fly
He's just a tiny, fuzzy ball
and I wonder how he can fly
A world without him I dread to think
And imagine my distress
It would without doubt be, a kind of loneliness
But for now, I'm in my garden
Watching clouds drift by
Feeling carefree as I listen
To the hum of bumblebees

Sadly not seen many Bees around this year with it being wet and cold.
True Irene, and Potter's who had premises in Wigan at Leyland Mills manufactured a great many medicines from plants, that is until the bureaucrats in Brussels banned the use of many of them when the UK joined the EEC. I worked at Leyland Mills for a few years in the early 1970s and the product range was huge, now there isn't many products made at all.

Some wags would say that herbal medicines don't work, and that it is all in the mind, until you mention Senna pods - that usually gets them moving.

The products that are still made are now manufactured by a Swiss company, Soho Flordis at Martland Park.

When cutting the grass in the field, we leave the edges, and now pheasants nest in the long grass. Lots more foxgloves this year too. A flower meadow is glorious. It doesn't take long for nature to recover.

Very true words, Pat McC.....nature gradually but surely creeps back.