Wildflower, Blossom and Fungi Photographs

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Fragile Do Not Bend Aug 2020 9:03pm, 1 Aug 2020 6,434 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend The little spikey things look like Samphire but the flowers are on a different plant. Samphire flowers are yellow (I googled that too ). It’s not clear enough to see what the purple flowers are.
Fragile Do Not Bend Aug 2020 9:12pm, 1 Aug 2020 6,435 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend A bit more googling suggests the spikes are Glasswort and the flowers are Sea Lavender.
Elsie Too Aug 2020 9:14pm, 1 Aug 2020 2,812 posts	0 Elsie Too I’ve just googled about that fauna here as it’s a nature reserve (Holkham) and found out this... Sea Lavender forms extensive carpets and creates a misty-blue haze around creeks. A closely related plant, the Matted Sea Lavender, is a North Norfolk speciality and forms cushions rather than carpets.
Elsie Too Aug 2020 9:14pm, 1 Aug 2020 2,813 posts	0 Elsie Too Both googled at the same time!!
Elsie Too Aug 2020 9:15pm, 1 Aug 2020 2,814 posts	0 Elsie Too It looked amazing :-), wish I had taken more photos.
bish Aug 2020 9:25pm, 1 Aug 2020 105 posts	0 bish Here’s another view of my meadow that seemed to be popular in my Treasure Hunt blog. Nothing particularly special here as far as I can tell.
jacdaw Aug 2020 10:08am, 2 Aug 2020 3,156 posts	0 jacdaw I think your Malva is a pale form of musk mallow, Chrisity.
jacdaw Aug 2020 10:11am, 2 Aug 2020 3,157 posts	0 jacdaw If that is samphire / glasswort, then that's not a beach, it's a saltmarsh!
Chrisity Aug 2020 4:33pm, 2 Aug 2020 18,056 posts	0 Chrisity Thanks jacdaw, it was on wasteland if that makes sense.
ThorntonRunner Aug 2020 4:46pm, 2 Aug 2020 3,626 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Sitting in the garden watching the bees and thought I'd try out the macro option on my new phone: