Hey folks,
Today’s photo is hawkweed, which grows pretty much everywhere around here in the spring.
Hawkweed is a pretty flower, but it is quite a nasty plant. It doesn’t reproduce by pollination but by cloning. It is an allelopathic plant, one of only a handful which are known, which means that it’s pollen kills off the seedlings of other plants. Pretty vicious!
I’m currently going back through some older photos to post at the moment. After three weeks of pretty solid sun, bordering on drought (which is unusual for Scotland – we even had some very serious forest fires, again very unusual) we’ve had near constant rain.
We have a joke in Scotland that we only get a couple of weeks of summer per year. The comedian Billy Connelly once joked that we have two seasons in Scotland: winter and June. Some years it’s less a joke and more a reality!
Thanks for visiting,
Kaylin
Kaylin Hamilton Photography 