Mondays (today a rather damp one) are cheered every week with this lovely meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
With glorious sunshine and temperatures climbing above the 20 degree mark I spent a lot of the weekend outdoors, also taking the opportunity to pick some wild flowers growing in various parts of the garden. I was especially pleased to see some Harebells as well as all the gorgeous Ragged Robin (which has an equally pretty name in German: Kuckucks-Lichtnelke, literally ‘cuckoo light carnation’).
I added some Euphorbia cyparissias, (spurge, or in German ‘wolf’s milk’ – Wolfsmilch), Leucanthemum vulgare (Moon Daisies), pink clover, cow parsley (just starting to open here) and buttercups as well as a few grasses.
Harebells always make me smile, as we have a lot of hares in this area and I like to imagine the hares playing with these flowers! 😉
From above you can see the variety of wild flowers and grasses a little better.
Click on the images below for a slideshow.
Thanks to Cathy and all the other vase makers brightening up the start to the week!
Words and Herbs 
How very cheerful!!! I love Ragged Robin! It has become one of my very favorite perennials. It has such a light-hearted manner that just makes everything more cheerful and sweet.
You are so right Cindy. Ragged robin dances in the breeze with a carefree nature and always makes me smile!
How bright and pretty! You are certainly ahead of us. No daisies in Maine until June.
Yes, the first moon daisies are opening but they will need another couple of weeks to reach a peak.
Love the name!
Oh what a lovely ‘wild’ vase, Cathy – a real meadow style. Thanks for sharing it
I love collecting wild flowers Cathy, and used to press them. But now I think putting them in a vase and photographing them is a much nicer way to preserve their beauty! 🙂
Beautiful and fresh. Love those common names for plants, like ragged robin or harebell—the names as colorful as the plants.
Some of the common names for plants are revealing, some magical and some plain boring. But I agree that ragged robin and harebell both conjure up lovely images!
The fancy vase is perfect to show off all of these wildflowers. Happy IAVOM.
Oh, I forgot to mention the vase, which came from Prague before the iron curtain fell. Yes, fancy and special! 😉
How lovely having wild flowers to pick from the garden, what a pretty bouquet. I love Ragged Robin, I grow it by my pond, I wish it would spread.
Like so many wild flowers Ragged Robin is rather picky about where it grows. Seems to like our meadow, but I have seen whole fields of it further out in the Bavarian Forest. 🙂
Lucky you. It likes damp meadows and I can’t provide that. It is so pretty.
Very pretty bouquet, Cathy. It is cheerfully pointing the way to summer!
Yes, you are right, Once the moon daisies start appearing you know summer is on the way! 🙂
Wild flowers delight! This is so beautiful! I cannot wait for our wildflowers to start popping up everywhere!
Thanks Angie. Wild flowers do have a great appeal, don’t they! 🙂
Cathy your bouquet is wonderful, I love the joy that brings the unique flowers and wild herbs. I love the Margaritas de la Luna, as do the Buttercups. The pink clover I like a lot. It’s a magnificent vase that says Primavera, I love it. Enjoy the good weather and gardening. Greetings from Margarita. 🙂
Thank you Margarita. We are finally getting some good rainfall and the wild flowers/weeds are thriving! 😉
Love the wildflower bouquet, I think these may be my favorites – casual and festive. Happy Spring. Wolf’s milk? Enjoyed the slideshow.
I love wild flowers too. Definitely favourites and celebrating the season! 🙂
How fun to have wildflowers to pick in your own garden! The only thing that creeps into my garden is ivy 😦 Your temperatures are once again above ours, which I still find utterly remarkable.
Yes, remarkable indeed. Although today it is cooler and raining here at last. The weather is up and down this spring. Only a week ago I was worrying about frost, and on Saturday I planted out tomatoes and was worried about them getting singed in the sun! LOL!
Wild flowers against a clear sky…something we all appreciate greatly.
That sky was soooo lovely! But now we are enjoying some much needed rain. 🙂
It’s fascinating to see the similarities between your wildflower vase and mine, though I think the only flower they actually have in common is the clover. 😉 I did find Leucanthemum further up the hill; it is an introduced plant here and can be a problem in hay fields, but still rather pretty! Love your ragged robin and all those folk names, English and German alike! They make their own pictures of the garden and countryside, don’t they? 🙂
I thought the same Amy, and wished I had one of your vases to put them in! Will you have vases in your shop soon? Would shipping to Germany be possible without breakage?
Sounds like a lovely weekend, and your wildflowers are so pretty. Our forecast is improving lately and will be similar to yours in the days ahead. Yay. 🙂
After the warm weekend we had a good rainfall at last which will keep our new trees going for a while! 🙂
What a beautiful arrangement, Cathy. The colors are cheery and the overall effect is very sweet, and the way you photographed it against the blue in the gorgeous sky really made a visual impact! My flower garden is quite confused. We can hardly believe it, but we are still having rain! Floods or drought! LOL!
Your garden will possibly bring you some surprises this year after all your cooler weather and rain! Good news for the woodland in your area though, to help it regenerate. Enjoy a walk or two in the rain while it lasts Debra! 😉
The wild flower vase is a happy vase with all the colors…enjoy your nice gardening weather.
Thanks Karen – the last few days have been perfect for working outdoors. 🙂
Such delightful wildflowers, and they are so unfamiliar too. (As a horticulturist, I don’t get much of that.)
I am glad I can share them with you Tony. 🙂
I like the harebells as well. They combine beautifully with the white daisies and yellow wildflowers. I have never heard of the ragged robin.
Ragged robin is, botanically, Lychnis flos-cuculi. It likes damp meadows but turns up in drier areas when the grass is tall. 🙂
Oh it seems as if summer is knocking on the door for you Cathy. It seems to have retreated here. I like your meadow in a vase.
The signs of summer are there with moon daisies now in full bloom. 🙂 Hope you get some summery weather soon Anna.
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Lovely!