Wild Carrott Daucus carota
Queen Anne’s Lace
This photo was taken whilst we sat in the sun on the road side in Amalfi, waiting for a bus to take the hairpin journey to Sorrento.
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Beautiful – so delicate:)
I thought so too, pretty enough to be in any cultivated garden but even more lovely growing naturally.
A beautiful photo of a beautiful flower which some people see as a weed — but not me!
I am glad Cynthia, they are so beautiful. In our lane we have a similar umbellifer- Cow Parsley, its just about to flower and en masse they are really gorgeous.
Queen Anne’s Lace is so beautiful, even when dry at the end of the season!
janet
Some umbellifers do look lovely in the late season, we have another one – Hogweed, much taller with a stout stem that stands over winter and looks wonderful frosted or with snow on.
A perfect photo!
Thanks Tina, hope you are having a good weekend.
I love the angle you’ve taken this photograph from, unusual, it really shows the form of the flower perfectly.
Thanks Christina, I usually take a few photos from different angles of each plant to help me with identifications. I make notes too but they do not always tally!
Beautiful. There are some wonderful wild flowers along this road. I think it is the scariest road in Europe, specially in a bus.
We picked up a hire car up from Rome airport and my husband had the mad money saving idea not to hire a sat nav too, by the time we arrived in the dark in Amalfi a very large drink was needed. We walked and caught buses after that, but that did give us lots of opportunities to see the beautiful wildflowers there.
It is such a lovely, delicate flower – pity it is viewed as a weed almost everywhere…but looking at it closely it’s amazing to see how many insects are using it!
As we sat on the roadside enjoying the lovely sunshine we were engrossed in the small insects also enjoying this plant.
I think Queen Anne’s is one of the most intricate flowers of all. Excellent choice!
Thanks Tina, as soon as I read this weeks challenge that plant came to mind, its so pretty too.
Beautiful! Queen Anne’s Lace is highly invasive here but is still pretty, regardless. 🙂
I have just read its an import from Europe and the pilgrims used to boil the tap roots and add to wine as a treat. What a shame its not better behaved!
Queen Anne’s Lace is one of the perfect things in our world…You did a wonderful job of capturing that in your image.
Thanks Charlie, Mother Nature gives us such lovely plants to photograph. 🙂
Hi Julie, hope you’re having a good trip. I love the way you’ve captured all the details of the flower, bathing it in sunlight. So lovely.
Hi Susie, I wish! This is from our last trip to Italy, this weekend I have been sanding woodwork, washing walls and clearing up, we are decorating as there is too much rain to garden!
I have heard people call Cow Parsley ‘Queen Anne’s Lace’ too. I love umbellifers – there is so much to see. Your photograph is beautiful.
Thanks Clare, the cow parsley in our lane is just beginning to shine, I love that umbellifer en masse, it’s such a pretty sight. We had really good weather until about 6 today then lots of rain, hope your weekend had some sunshine too.
Weather hasn’t been too bad thank-you. Lovely sunny morning today, cloudier afternoon but no rain til after dark.
I love how your caught the beauty of this flower in your photo! When they show up in my gardens, I do not weed them out, I let them grow, I find them beautiful:-)
I find them beautiful too Robbie, we have ground elder here its a tough perrenial nuisance but in flower that too is lovely.
I have some plants in my yard that others find a nuisance, but I enjoy. My native trumpet vine people hate here for being invasive. I love watching the humming birds in the flowers as I sip my tea:-) Can’t imagine not having them:-)
Superb picture Julie! I love Queen Anne’s Lace too. In a previous garden I used to leave large bits unmown so it would flower. Of course it did self-seed into borders. Difficult to remove when it’s grown big, easy if you keep a regular eye open and catch it young. We don’t seem to have any here. So sad. Thanks for the memory!
You are most welcome! Your last garden must of looked a picture, looking forward to catching up with your new garden.