Mountain cornflowers, petunia and their friends

Yesterday’s flower pics.

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Centaurea montana or mountain cornflower or perennial cornflower or mountain bluet. These, too, are flowers that we have on many different spots in our garden, thank you, the previous owners of this house! I like these. 🙂

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The tiny yellow flowers on the background are meadow buttercups, very wild in our garden… 🙂

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More petunia pics. Now the lovely colour combination can be seen a bit better…

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In the same pot with the petunia is another flower, too. It was there when we got this, and I don’t know what this flower is, haven’t found the answer. I call it the white crown flower

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…or the white flower crown

EDIT: The answer came to me in a garden store, I saw these flowers there with a name tag. 🙂 This is verbena, rautayrtti in Finnish.

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Red campion or red catchfly. A bit wild in our garden as well. And a bit everywhere, for example around the rapids.

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On Friday by the lake Pyhäjärvi. It was raining a bit as I took this pic.

-Leena

By the home rapids, a couple of peony buds & a petunia flower

I took some pics again by our home rapids, the Kauttuankoski rapids, yesterday evening when we visited it. Here is my previous blog post about the rapids.

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The Kauttuankoski rapids and so many faces… In the previous blog post I was mostly on the other side of the rapids, in this post I’m on the opposite side, and a bit further, too.

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Some evening light already in these pics, but the nights are so light now, too, this time of the year in Finland – in southern Finland as well, but it’s a whole different story in northern Finland these days – it’s so much lighter there at night, and in the northernmost point of the country, the sun doesn’t set at all… Magicall… 😉

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The ruins of an old mill on the right.

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Water flows under the ruins, too

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There are some very old trees. I tried to take pics of the massive trunks, but these pics can’t exactly tell how big these lovely trees really are. And they are mossy from the other side. Like in a fairytale. 🙂

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From the bridge.

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The wind is still blowing like crazy, but I managed to take a pic of our petunia. I love this colour combination! (More pics of this later, hopefully.)

I tried to take pics of our mountain cornflowers, too, for this blog post, but the wind was too much. 😀

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And a couple of peony buds. On our front yard in the pic above and on the back yard in the pic below.

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-Leena