Have you noticed?

Yes the countryside is looking it's best at the moment isn't it. The trees are full of leaf now, and it is amazing how many different colour greens there are. The sun shining makes such a difference to all the colours doesn't it.

The sea defence opposite our house has decorative block work. In the gaps of the pattern there's a multitude of colour growing in the form of snap dragons all over the 200yd stretch of the wall. I've no idea how they seeded there. They don't usually grow wild do they ?
Much better to look at than the grey wall whilst doing the washing up

Our verges have been wonderful this year, full of wild flowers, mainly buttercups and huge daisies, but lots of grasses as well. For once, the council hasn't been going round with the grass cutters, but have left nature to itself. What a treat! Unfortunately they have now started to cut. I can't help thinking of all the wildlife that will have been delighting in the broad green verges left to go wild

Cow parsley! Honestly hudl!

We've got of ox-eye daisies around here too. They are all along the roadsides. There is down parsley talker then me!

Our garden is awash in hundreds of big white daisy type flowers. They have seeded themselves among the roses and it looks like a bridal display - they are lovely. And on our raised bed we have suddenly acquired a red poppy the size of a chamber pot - we were debating how to extract the morphine!

From the Telegraph article: "Helen was expecting a field of blue linseed but ended up with red field of flowers when the crop spray they used didn't suppress the poppies sufficiently."

Bit of an understatement, that.

I've never seen so much orange hawkweed. My fb friend calls it a weed, but I think it's a lovely wild flower. Here is my photo of it on the lawn outside a local coach tour company office.

Yes, and our hedge has grown enormously

I know it's wonderful isn't it. Everything looks green and magnificent. All we need is a few weeks of sunshine and the U.K will bloom, it's going to be a beautiful summer.

Everything's so lush - it's all the rain I suppose.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/18/pictures-of-the-day-18-june-2016/farmer-helen-smith-stands-in-her-field-of-red-poppies-near-royst/

Beautiful but not what they were expecting.

Buttercups particularly locally in Somerset. Sunshine in the rain

Yes I noticed all the daisies today driving from Rotherham towards Sheffield. Yorkshire is extra beautiful at the moment.

They would make a wonderful watercolour painting! Where's honeypot43 when you need her?

I agree it seems to be a good year for wild flowers, poppies especially; and masses of pink and white campion and ox eye daisies. Bees having a field day!

Must be all the rain

Yes, here in Essex the verges are magnificent.