Hello Folks! Flowers not only decorate our meadows, our woodlands, our roadsides with splashes of colour, but they also provide food and shelter for a whole host of insects. We have only to look at UK flowers to appreciate their beauty, their scent, their diversity.Each Monday for 12 weeks I will be posting a little teaser for you. Without looking in books or on the internet (i.e - no cheating), see if you can identify the UK flower. On Wednesday, so as long as no-one has guessed it, I will post one clue. On Friday I will post the answer along with some additional information for your interest.Keep a note of each species, as I will be asking which is the odd one out at the end of the quiz.MYSTERY FLOWER QUIZ#7Oh, jolly well done Mrs K. Clark.
Suppose your eating a pork pie and drinking a london pride as well
Just wondering if there's an anagram there, Meadow is in the first clue but thats all I can see
Lol Ray
a good laugh is better than a tonic
No anagram and definately no pork pie.
I Think we've asked for this one Lol
Ray
Hehe... thats not really an evil laugh is it? but its all I could muster...... will post the answer in a bit.
Sorry. This was in wrong place. Mods please delete.
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Hi Tiger, did you mean to post this on this thread?
Congratulations to all of you who guessed Meadow cranesbill (Geranium pratense). First a bit about the clues: ‘Oh, jolly well done Mrs K. Clark’. 'Mrs Kendal Clark' is a cultivar of the Meadow cranesbill and has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit and is available for use garden use, hence ‘jolly well done’. (N.B: MrT insists I have a posh Oxfordshire accent). The second clue: ‘William's lifting and lowering machine out in the field’. Field refers to meadow, a lifting and lowering machine a crane and Bill is short for William.
A member of the Geraniaceae family, the Meadow cranesbill is a herbaceous perennial plant with light blue flowers, whose petals have pale veins. At 30-80 cm, this plant is usually found in meadows, grasslands and along roadsides, often in calcareous soils. Meadow cranesbill flower between June and September, and in addition to the standard blue flowers, pink and white flowers have also been recorded.
A picture of Meadow cranesbill can be found here.
Did you know?: In Scandinavia it is known as the ‘Midsommar Blomster’.
Keep an eye out for next week’s mystery flower.
Take care,
Claire
P.S: Ray – mines a London pride theres a good lad!
Jennifer T said:P.S: Ray – mines a London pride theres a good lad!
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Better start saving lol
Seaman wasn't far off
Unknown said: Better start saving lol Seaman wasn't far off Ray