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Fantastic pictures... Hoy. The landscape impresses me very much. All plants are colossal. Especially Rhodiola rosea... beautiful even at this stage. I (beginner) did not know Oxyris digyna yet. Absolutely brilliant. I like the late summer and the autumn very much. Thanks Thomas
Wow! The colours of autumn in these fantastic photos, Trond!
Hi Trond,Some very fine autumn colors. It is still far too warm for autumn color here in California. It was 91 F (32.8 C) at the farm today - 8 September and only 45 F (7.2 C) at Loon Lake this morning. It does look like some cold air is going to dig into our area. This might trigger some color changes at the higher elevations. I saw some Aspen today and they were still green (and or brown, as dry weather seems to be getting to them first).
Hello Robert,Where I live the governement is making efforts to increase biodiversity of (flowering) plants by replicating old farming techniques in the management of the roadsides. Untill perhaps the late 30-ies of the previous century it was common that sheep would graze on the roadsides. Since this had been done for decades or even centuries it had resulted in strongly depleted soils, but such soils are a heaven for all kinds of flowering plants that can't otherwise compete with stronger and faster growing grasses. Since then there are less and less sheep and shepherds, modern agriculture not only fertilizes the fields, but in the end the entire environment got overfertilized.Since a couple of years, when the roadsides are mown the clippings are evacuated so that the soil finally can get rid of some of its excessive nutrients. But the first results are really encouraging. Where a few year ago roadsides were only covered by grass & nettles and at best some dandelions or ranunculus flowering in spring, we now see more & flowers in summer & fall. One of the fastest summer flowering species to have reapeared massively is tancy (Tanacetum vulgare), which is a fantastic bee feeder. But still more is showing up.Lot's of botanically rich biotopes here in Europe have been man-created by sheep or other cattle grazing, while the meat, milk, wool, manure we get from the animals in the end resulted in those soils getting poorer & poorer. But since this kind of extensive agriculture is no longer economically sustainable the former pastures slowly change into forests mostly - in particular because there are no animals eating the seedlings of the trees neither humans cutting down the trees to leave more room for the lower palatable vegetation and the soils slowly regaining their original nutrient level. There are a few tests with using grazing animals to maintain interesting biotopes, mostly we use some Scottish highland cattle because these animals can take care of themselves.Anyway ... a bit a long text just to say in our country we are making efforts to have flowers until late fall available to nature.
Cornus suecicaEriophorum scheuchzeriOxyris digynaRhodiola roseaAthyrium dissentifolium
David did you try to grow it in the garden?
Here's the one in the garden.
