#widflowers

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Oenothera biennis (Common Evening Primrose)

The last Evening Primrose

I took this photo a few days ago during my weekly walk on the fen. Not only is this the last Evening Primrose but it’s just about the last wildflower of any type. It’s interesting that many of our garden flowers are still blooming (indeed, dahlias are at their peak) and yet the wildflowers are finished for the season. 

Wildflowers exist in a state of nature and their ‘survival of the species’ depends on successful pollination. The bees disappeared about three weeks ago and so there is little incentive for wildflowers to produce fresh blooms. 

Our garden flowers play by a different set of rules. Mollycoddled by people like me, they break all the Laws of Nature, comfortable in the knowledge that there will be plenty of fresh seeds at the Garden Shop next Spring.

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Wild Hollyhock (Iliamna rivularis) growing happily along Middle Creek, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

riverwindphotography, June 2017

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"I think my soul is probably a rainbow growing wildflowers..."

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foxglove

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Morning-glory

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Marsh marigold

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Reed plumes