Flowers

tags: flowers, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day A mystery flower Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, photographed on Seurasaari (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Flower box in Rautatientori (downtown Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Dahlia blossom. Photographed in downtown Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Dahlia blossom. Photographed in downtown Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Dahlia blossom. Photographed in downtown Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Wild rose, Rosa acicularis. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This is one of a large group of wild rose flowers that were blooming outside the front door of the cafe. The scent they produced was unbelievably strong and sweet and -- dare I say it? -- otherworldly.
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Common Burdock (Thistle), Arctium pubens, blossoms. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Poppy blossom. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I am really pleased with this image and hope that you like it too. Ripening poppy seedpod. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Tufted Loosestrife, Lysimachia thyrsiflora. Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant.
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Biting (Goldmoss) Stonecrop, Sedum acre, also known as the Wall-pepper. Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant. Stonecrop is a succulent herb that includes perhaps 600 species -- mostly in the North Temperate Zone. Many…
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Helsinki daises. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Helsinki daises. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Mystery blossoms. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Daisies. Photographed at Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Daisy. Photographed at Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia, cities Flowers. Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia. Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This is one of my favorite pictures that I snapped while in Tallinn.
tags: Tvärminne, zoological field research station, Finland, nature, image of the day Wildflowers photographed at Tvärminnen eläintieteellinen asema (Tvärminne Zoological field research station) in southwestern Finland. [read more about it: English Suomeksi På Svenska] Image: GrrlScientist, 16 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Can you name the species?
tags: Tvärminne, zoological field research station, Finland, nature, image of the day Wildflowers with beetle photographed at Tvärminnen eläintieteellinen asema (Tvärminne Zoological field research station) in southwestern Finland. [read more about it: English Suomeksi På Svenska] Image: GrrlScientist, 16 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Can you name the species?
tags: Potentilla fruticosa, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Is this a wild rose or a close relative? "Goldfinger" or the Buttercup Shrub, Potentilla fruticosa. Photographed alongside a roadway in Pitäjänmäki in northern Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) "Goldfinger" -- which has a wide variety of common names, such as the Goldfinger shrubby Potentilla, Shrubby Cinquefoil and my favorite, the Buttercup Shrub -- is a hardy and dense shrub with dark green leaves and bright yellow flowers that are roughly 1 1…
tags: Heartsease, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Heartsease is known by a wide variety of names, including the Wild Pansy, Ladies' Delight, Jump-Up-And-Kiss-Me, and Johnny Jump-Up, Viola tricolor. Photographed on Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Native over large areas of Europe and western Asia, this is the ancestor of the modern pansy. I remember Heartsease from watching a live performance of Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer's Night Dream in London last year, where Oberon claims that the…