#Speedwell

Bit of rain, bit of sun, and up come my wildflowers.

#wildflower #borage #speedwell #blossom #nature #sorrel #nasturnum #hawthorn #fieldpenny # tansy #flax
A collage of colouorful wildflowers
2025-06-19
Austrian Speedwell is an important native wildflower in dry meadows, forest edges, and open grasslands. Its nectar-rich, violet-blue flowers attract a variety of pollinators, including wild bees, solitary wasps, butterflies, and hoverflies, supporting local insect diversity.
The plant also helps stabilize soil on slopes and nutrient-poor sites, preventing erosion. As part of diverse plant communities, it contributes to the ecological balance of semi-natural habitats and indirectly supports nearby fruit-bearing plants by sustaining pollinator populations.
Promoting this species helps maintain healthy, species-rich ecosystems, especially in fragmented landscapes.

#wildflower #flower #speedwell #ehrenpreis #veronica #veronicaaustriaca #biodiversity
Close-up of an Austrian Speedwell (Veronica austriaca, Österreichischer Ehrenpreis) with clusters of small, vibrant blue to violet flowers blooming along upright stems. The flowers have four petals each and are surrounded by bright green, lance-shaped leaves. The background shows tall, sunlit grasses and other low green vegetation, creating a lively, natural meadow atmosphere.
Miniphernalia.co.uk 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦miniphernalia@mastodonapp.uk
2025-05-12

Don’t drive too fast, #Speedwell instead - like this 1962 #AustinMini Mk1 achieves with a modified 1275 engine. Especially on #MiniMonday - miniphernalia.co.uk

Don’t drive too fast, #Speedwell instead - like this 1962 #AustinMini Mk1 achieves with a modified 1275 engine. Especially on #MiniMonday - http://miniphernalia.co.uk
2025-05-11

Two types of #speedwell for this week’s #WildflowerHour challenge: germander and thyme-leaved speedwell

Bright blue flowers with a white centre, green foliage in the backgroundA stem with multiple pale blue flowers and small pointy leaves. Grass in the background
2025-05-11

Lots of Germander #Speedwell for this week’s #WildflowerHour challenge
#Nature #Botany

A mass of blue Germander Speedwell flowers
Miniphernalia.co.uk 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦miniphernalia@mastodonapp.uk
2025-05-05

Happy #MiniMonday one and all. To kick off how about this #Speedwell replica 1962 #AustinMini with 1275 Cooper S spec motor? Groovy baby - miniphernalia.co.uk

Happy #MiniMonday one and all. To kick off how about this #Speedwell replica 1962 #AustinMini with 1275 Cooper S spec motor? Groovy baby - http://miniphernalia.co.uk
2025-04-26
Small, vivid blue Veronica chamaedrys (#Speedwell Gamander-Ehrenpreis) peek out between fallen #leaves and fresh green grasses on the forest floor. The delicate four-petaled blooms, each marked with fine white lines radiating from the center, are growing between young grass blades and decaying foliage.

#flowers #wildflowers #flowermeadow
Small, vivid blue flowers of Veronica chamaedrys (Gamander-Ehrenpreis) peek out between fallen leaves and fresh green grasses on the forest floor. The delicate four-petaled blooms, each marked with fine white lines radiating from the center, are scattered among the soft texture of young grass blades and the earthy tones of decaying foliage. Their slender stems and roundish, serrated leaves blend harmoniously into the natural woodland undergrowth, creating a lively but tender scene of spring renewal.Small, vivid blue flowers of Veronica chamaedrys (Gamander-Ehrenpreis) peek out between fallen leaves and fresh green grasses on the forest floor. The delicate four-petaled blooms, each marked with fine white lines radiating from the center, are scattered among the soft texture of young grass blades and the earthy tones of decaying foliage.
2025-03-03
Wie schon oft hier geschrieben: Es wird Frühling 😎
Bild 1: Krokusse (oder Krokanten??? 😉)
Bild 2: Ehrenpreis

#krokusse #ehrenpreis #frühling #natur #naturfotografie #crocus #speedwell #spring #nature #naturephotography
Vier weiß-blaue Krokusse stehen auf einer Wiese.Das Foto zeigt eine offene Blüte sowie eine sich gerade öffnende Blüte eines Ehrenpreis. Im Hintergrund sind unscharf Grashalme zu erkennen.
2025-02-27

Fascinating #physics: #optics #reflections #refraction #FlowersOfBluesky #buttercup #hawkweed #iris #poppy #speedwell #thistle #macrophotography #PhotographyIsArt Parts of one of the three intense blue-purple iris leaves are perfectly hidden by transparent water in a transparent glass!

A shot glass sits on a large red poppy leaf in a baseless glass cylinder.
The almost black spore capsule including stamens of the same colour and a yellow buttercup flower were placed in front of the glass.
The glass contains a blue-purple iris flower, a purple closed thistle flower, three buds and two flowers of orange hawkweed and speedwell tendrils. Part of the water surface appears red because it reflects the poppy leaf. The background looks as if it was painted because of the cylinder; It is unobtrusive white, beige and gray, the bright colours dominate it.Detail with the red water surface
See photo to the left, ALT, please for more
GaiaCrisisPhilphilcolbourn@mas.to
2024-05-11

What a gorgeous blue!

Speedwell in the bank beside the path speeding us on our way - although it was slow going: the path was very rocky and uneven! All the better for stopping to look at the flowers

#Speedwell #blue #wildflowers
#PeakDistrict #Derbyshire #UK
#bloomScrolling

Five small, bright blue, four-pedalled flowers with white centres in lush, herb-rich grass just above a bold, yellow dandelion
2023-07-30

Boss got me a Speedwell (Veronica hybrida Moody Blues Dark Pink) on Friday. I planted it today. The bees already found it and love it.

2023-06-03

Such profusion #cymru #speedwell

Lots of small intensely blue flowers on a grassy bank
2023-05-25

Thyme-leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)

Thyme-leaves Speedwell is another naturalized import from Europe/Asia that we found this morning growing in a grassy path. Too nice to overlook and my soul is saved by the fact that native insects happily exploit the flowers.
It really is tiny, those flowers are a bare 6cm across. The plant grows in full sunlight, tolerates partial shade, and thrives in a moist environment during the spring.
#Speedwell #Veronica #Flowers #Garden #NativeFlowers

Tiny, 6mm diameter, flowers with three large petals and deep violet veining.

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