Marsh Marigold

These are spreading wonderfully over the Caldicot Levels. For some reason I can't seem to grow them at my pond edge, but they look splendid 'in the wild.'

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- normalguy
- Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 17:46:32
personally I always think plants look more attractive in their natural habitat
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  - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 17:53:33
  I'd pretty much agree with that NG, but when you're trying to create a habitat you tend to break a few rules.
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    - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 18:04:39
    I agree Usk .... A few plants do help LOL
    
    That Normal ain't normal!
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      - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 19:02:44
      Is it just me, or is Blogland slower than a slow thing on a go-slow again this evening?
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- Munzly
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- Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 20:02:20
Interesting, I've always known them as Buttercups for the smaller vaiety and Kingcups for the larger ones. We have a lot around the Broads.

Apparently they can also be called Water Blobs, Horse Blobs, Bull's Eyes, Leopard's Foot, Meadow Routs, Verrucaria, Solsequia and Sponsa solis.
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  - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 20:38:20
  Buttercups are different in Wales...
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    - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 22:54:00
    Do you have the tradition of placing a flower on the soft skin below the chin and seeing "If you like butter" when you get a yellow mark?
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      - Thursday, 24. May, 2007 @ 01:30:39
      Munzly...I used to do that when I was a wee girl...truly believe that if you place a buttercup flower under your chin, it will shine yellow if you like butter
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      - Thursday, 24. May, 2007 @ 05:16:07
      Indeed we do sir, but we tend to use the Creeping Buttercup that is so prolific in the meadows here.
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        Thursday, 24. May, 2007 @ 07:06:43
        
        There are plenty of those too, around the Norfolk meadows, but much smaller than the kingcups found along the edges of broads.
        
        Nice pictures
        
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        Thursday, 24. May, 2007 @ 07:16:44
        
        My grandmother used to talk about kingcups; she was born and raised out your way before moving to London to enter 'service' as a young woman. I'll have to look them up now.
        
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- Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 20:32:09
pretty.....such a lovely yellow.............
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  - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 20:53:57
  They are aren't they? And despite Munzly's 'buttercups' these Welsh Marsh Marigolds are quite big and bold.
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- lizdavies
- Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 21:24:13
I love the yellowness of this time of year! So many yellow flowers, and the greens are still "yallery" too - always makes me feel cheerful.
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  - Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 21:27:36
  Yellow is a happy, smiling colour isn't it? Just the job to drag us out of Winter's clutches.
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- craftycards
- Wednesday, 23. May, 2007 @ 21:33:02
Marsh marigolds are lovely, I did have some on a shelf in my pool but they ran wild, so I donated them to a freind with a huge pool in her garden.
I must admit they looked better and a brighter coulour in more natural surroundings.
I have not tried to copy nature with my pool since, I leave it as it is; a nice pool with a few Koi in it and a resident frog.
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  - Thursday, 24. May, 2007 @ 05:09:04
  Pond plants can be a bit like that; my arum lillies have grown out of all proportion this last 18 months or so and making a bid for a take-over.
  
  Your stock sounds broadly similar to mine, including the resident frog!
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