Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: flower

I love the vibrance of Marigold flowers, especially the original medicinal variety Calendula officinalis .

Experimenting with focus stacking to give an increased depth of field. Cultivated Spanish bluebells Hyacinthoides hispanica , with Greater Celandine Chelidonium majus leaves in the background. The Spanish bluebells were here before we moved into the house, otherwise we would not have planted them ourselves; they escape into the wild too easily and hybridise with the real English bluebells Hyacinthoides non-scripta .

We have a lot of Greater Celandine Chelidonium majus growing in our garden. The bees love it and it is a useful medicinal plant.

A bee visiting a flower on our Clematis montana rubens , which climbs nicely on a trellis in our garden. Makes a lovely display and delicious scent for a few short weeks in Spring.

Nolton Haven to Newgale The small Nolton-Newgale coalfield is separated by faulting from the main Pembrokeshire coalfield. It lies mostly within Pennant Sandstone Formation of the Upper Coal Measures rocks. Heading north along the coast path from Rickets Head, the site of Trefrane Cliff Colliery comes into view, with its spoil heaps and prominent furnace chimney. The colliery worked the Cliff Vein coal seam, pieces of which can be readily found in the spoil heaps. A Small Copper butterfly, Lycaena phlaeas , visits a Cat's-ear flower, Hypochaeris radicata , growing on one of the spoil heaps.

Easterly view from the trig point and cairn at Sidhean Mòr, the highest point (161 m) of the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The extensive bulk of Quinag is In the distance.

South easterly view from Sidhean Mòr. Loch Cùl Fraioch occupies a depression in the Torridonian Sandstone low ground on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The relict Torridonian Sandstone mountains loom over the hummocky Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape in the middle distance.

Southerly view from the trig point and cairn at Sidhean Mòr, the highest point (161 m) of the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. On the sky line are the Torridonian Sandstone relict mountains (see notes).

Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The shadowed cliffs of Handa Island are visible in the centre. The high ground beyond is the remote mountainous moorland south of Cape Wrath.

Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag is on distant sky line to the right; Ben Stack, Arkle and Foinaven in the far distance to the left of centre.

Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.

Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.

Butterfly orchid on the roadside near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

A walk on Handa Island - 13 Cotton grass in flower on the slopes of Sìthean Mòr (123 m), the highest point of Handa Island.

Sea thrift growing in an enlarged fissure in the Durness Group limestones on the palaeo wave-cut platform at the eastern end of the Geodha Smoo inlet.

Bog Asphodel in flower at Druim na Claise, on the Stoer peninsula, north-west Scotland.

Cherry blossom flowering in early January as a result of an exceptionally mild winter so far.