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Gotland   9.6.23

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Geranium sylvaticum

 

Maianthemum bifolium

Vaccinium vitis idea

Ian wiped this geranium over an ants' nest and the ants squirted formic acid over the petals.  

This produced pink areas on the blue flower.   This works more spectacularly with  bluebells.

Primula farinosa

Menyanthes trifoliata - Bogbean

Tofieldia pusilla

Pinguicula grandiflora

Pinguicula alpina

Pearl-bordered fritillary

 

Bartsia alpina

Tofieldia pusilla

Dactylorhiza romana

Pinguicula alpina

Beautiful bark

Wild Russ ponies mother and foal

Tadpoles

Pearl-bordered fritillary

The ponies

Red helleborine

Viburnum

Pinguicula grandiflora

Salix artica?

Centaurium

Pyrola - wintergreen 

Pyrola

Dunes

 Ammophila sabulosa or pubescens

Ammophila sabulosa, the red-banded sand wasp, is a species of the subfamily Ammophilinae of the solitary hunting wasp family Sphecidae, also called digger wasps.

Honckenya peploides - Blossoms of the sea sandwort

Cicindela sylvatica - Heath Tiger Beetle

Parapholis incurva

Walk around Visby

Papaver orientalis

Graeme loves this sign

Rosa 'Nevada' my favourite rose

Rosa 'Nevada' hedge

Fred and Sam endorse this

Engraved flowers on the glass

Burnt black blistered wood

Visby Cathedral

Botanic Garden

Glaucium flavum

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Buskpion'

Tree Peonies

Veratrum album

Iris siberica

Dictamnus albus

Laburnum

Moss Rosebud

Asphodeline lutea

Rosa 'Blanc Double de Coubert'

Rosa 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup'

Zelkova serrata

 

Visby Museum

 

We had a coffee

Dopfunt baptismal font

Trade routes from Gotland

The exhibition

Fiskare Olja påduk Odatevad William Blair Bruce 1859-1906

Sadgäster olemäining 1945

David Ahlquist 1900-1945

Corals

A dragon

We had some enormous ice creams

We had our last dinner at ?

 

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