The Scottish Parliament building sits at the edge of Edinburgh's Holyrood Park. The landscaping around the building includes wildflower meadows that look lovely at this time of year. These are wildflower meadows that have grown from specially sown seeds, rather than being actual natural wildflower meadows, but they are still valuable for pollinating insects and at this time of year birds such as Goldfinches feed on the seeds of some of the plants. Yesterday, I was leading a birdwatching walk around Arthur's Seat and arrived early to take some photos of these wildflower meadows.
The poppies are looking at their best just now
as are the scabious plants, which are still in bloom
even though some of the scabious flowers have gone to seed (and the seed heads look lovely)
The Common Carder bees seemed to be enjoying this plant
I was very impressed with this sign in the car-park near Holyrood House
3 comments:
Beautiful! It’s hard to beat a wildflower meadow. I hope that you saw plenty of birds too!
Hi Sal, we had a good birdwatching walk, yes, highlights were Little Grebe on one of the small lochs and a pair of Kestrels.
There seem to be more wildflower meadows around now which is so nice to see.
I like those beautiful poppies.
All the best Jan
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