If my mother or grandmother were still alive (bless 'em) there would be absolutely no need to write this blog post, because there would be absolutely no need to ask the question. They would have both known the answer immediately, and would have both chided me unmercifully for my ignorance. However, my grandmother died in 1975, and my mother in 2002, and I am woefully ignorant on the subject of our native wildflowers. Has anyone any idea what these two gorgeous things are?















In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.


1 comment:
I don't know what the plant in the bottom photo is, but the one in the top photo is a Geranium.
I have two of these growing in my rockery. They are cultivated varieties of Geranium maculatum, the wild Geranium native to north America. Colours range from pinky / white to deep purple/blue
Yours are possibly escapees from gardens, that have turned feral.
Check these links out:
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/wild_geranium.htm
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/18082/
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=27398
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