The purpose of this blog is to publish some of our pictures of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We lay no claim to these being great photographs - they are just pictures of what we see, taken with ordinary compact cameras. We hope you enjoy browsing.

Richard and Sue


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Thursday, 26 June 2014

Summer Skye - Wild Flowers

The roadside grasses and wild flowers are at their very best just now. The pictures in this collection were all taken during one half-mile walk along the verge of the A863 from Roskhill yesterday afternoon, and show the wonderful diversity of Skye's common roadside flowers. Click on any picture to view the gallery full-size, and if anyone would like to post a 'comment' to name all the flowers - that would be great!

Update: We now have names for most of them. Can anyone fill-in the gaps??

Birds-foot Trefoil
Northern Marsh Orchid
Common Spotted Orchid
Field Buttercup
Clover
Thyme
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Ragged Robin
Speedwell
Tufted vetch
?
Marsh thistle
Hawkbit
Foxglove
Tormentil
Red clover
Thyme
Ox-eye Daisy


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  1. Billy Blue Eyes26 June 2014 at 15:23

    Some nice wildflower photos there

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  2. Julie27 June 2014 at 19:16

    Beautiful photos and flowers. I know some of them. I think 1 is a trefoil, not sure which type, 2, 3, 4 field buttercup, 5 clover, 6 thyme, 7, 8 ragged robin, 9 speedwell I think, 10 tufted vetch, 11, 12, 13 hawkbit? 14, 15 red clover?, 16 another thyme, 17 oxeye daisy, 18 oxeye daisy field. Thanks for the challenge. Seeing all these flowers makes me wish we were on Skye, especially with the sunshine you've had today :-)

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    1. Richard Dorrell28 June 2014 at 09:11

      Brilliant - Thank you Julie. I'm slightly ashamed not to be able to name all of these myself - they are all quite common here. I know a few, so I'll put captions on them now, and hope someone else might fill in the last few gaps!

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