Tag Archive for ‘Nature’

Water Avens

Water Avens

I finally got to terms with it and got me an app. An app to help me identify the flowers begging for the attention of my lens. Where I failed the app took a few milliseconds to identify. Just like this “Humleblomster” (Geum rivale), in English Water Avens. The Swedish name translates to “bumblebee flower”. Theory is that it got is name from specially attracting bumblebee’s.

Ha de Gött!

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Potato

Potato

I guess it’s not the flower people think of when we speak of the potato (Solanum tuberosum). But it is very beautiful with its blue and orange colors. Don’t try to eat it or make chips from the leafs, they are poisonous. It’s the tuber you want so you have to dig in.

Did you know that in the Belarus they eat 181 kilograms per person per year. Honey, what’s for dinner? No, let me guess, can it be “bulba”. Boiled, fried, gratin, fries, Hasselback, soup and more and more ways to do it. Tell me your favorite.

Ha de Gött!

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Perfoliate honeysuckle

Perfoliate honeysuckle

Meet the fragrant beautiful climber, the Honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium). In Swedish “Kaprifol”. Climbs up to eight metres and spreads a lovely smell in the evening.

You can look but you better not touch, the berries are poisonous. Not deadly but your last meal will exit the wrong way and your face will go very red. You can also experience an excessive thirst.

Now I’m going for a beer, Ha de Gött!

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Nottingham catchfly

Nottingham catchfly

The unknown flower from yesterday is now identified as Nottingham catchfly (silene nutans). In Swedish “Backglim”. Thank you for trying to identify this. There is a proverb in Swedish that basically says “don’t cross the stream for water”. It was my neighbor who identified it.

Ha de Gött!

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