Wild Rose flowers North Fife

A drive of 5 miles to Newburgh today, The verges and hedgerows are a wealth of wonderful wild roses. I tend to drive slowly, just taking it all in. Later of course in the Autumn all is speckled with deep red coloured rose hips, a brilliant product for syrup.

Roses and Broom in bloom.

Hawthorn North Fife 2013

Hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata) a pink variety. May Blossom so called, it is the middle of June for goodness sake. Roadsides, field boundaries and randomly scattered examples shout their presence with wonderful displays of flowers, usually they're white, (Crataegus monogyna) both have red berries providing a plentiful food supply for birds.

Crataegus laevigata

Crataegus monogyna

Bluebells North Fife

Today I visited Dundee,City of Discovery. seen here from North Fife looking over The River Tay.

 The day has been blessed with continual sunshine magnifying the presence of flowers of all kinds.

Oilseed Rape, Gorse, Bluebells and trees of many varieties.

 A fabulous stand of wild native Bluebells along a roadside giving off a strong perfume in the shafts of sunlight filtering through the mature trees which form an avenue of olfactory and visual delight.

 

Not so good if you suffer from Hay fever.

A very worn out Queen Bumblebee, not having a long enough proboscis for bluebells and other flowers pierce a hole at the base of the flowers to drink nectar. She later half buzzed down into the grass and roosted, tired, intoxicated or both, who can tell.