There is an abundance of wildflowers at the moment as we are approaching the summer solstice. I have been enjoying posts of fellow bloggers showing the wildflowers from different places around the world. Today I have ventured out again and made an exciting discovery of Himalayan balsam, which is a completely new plant to me. It is an invasive species and can be found along river banks just like this one. It typically grows up to 1-2 meters and has beautiful pink flowers which captivated me.
I have not written the wildflowers post in May as I was away at the end of the month so here are the highlights of what has been blooming in the recent two months.
Sadly, I did not have any good photos of poppies and cornflowers which to my are the real summer star flowers. The thistles and burdocks are coming into bloom now and I am looking forward to another month and more wildflower findings.
Beautywhizz 
Well done for taking such nice pictures and even better done for knowing all the names.
Thank you. I hope I got them right!
Beautiful photos! So the plant growing in my garden that I thought was salvia is actually purple toadflax — thank you for the i.d.!
You are welcome and thank you for stopping by.
Absolutely beautiful!
Breathtaking, wonderful beauties of nature!!! Happy new week…….
Thank you and a happy week to you too!
Lovely photos! Your flowers are ahead of ours – no balsam flowers here yet – and you’re helping me learn the names for things I see, so thanks!
Thank you. I usually spend few hours going maniacally through few books to ID new wildflowers.
Such a delightful summery post!! I had Himalayan balsam in aprevious garden and I loved it! When it starts seeding, it will ‘spit’ out it seeds and they fly everywhere. Thanks for sharing!!!
I will definitely go back to see its seed pods. Thank you for visiting!
Lovely photographs!
Thank you!
We have some of these wildflowers in the United States, too, but over here they’re alien invaders. Ox-eye daisies haven’t made it to central Texas, but when I was in the north-central United States over the last few weeks I saw plenty of them. Likewise for campion. You can enjoy your natives as natives.
Ox-exe daisies come in big numbers which is such a beautiful sight.
A lot of beauty in common weeds.
Some are very pretty on the closer look.