• 10Sep
    Categories: Everything! Comments: 1

    One of my favorite things about summer in Sweden is all the wild flowers.  I always have at least one bouquet in the house.

    You might not think of lilacs as wild flowers…

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    …but they do grow like weeds all over the countryside.

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    They’re really fragrant so these bouquets are often relegated to the porch!

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    Of course daisies are the quintessential Swedish wild flower.

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    Like our neighbors, we mow around them in our lawn.

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    I see them everywhere on my morning walks.

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    These were on our table at midsummer.

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    The orange lily and blue flowers are something that come up every year in our yard.

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    There are lots and lots of long stemmed butter cups in the fields around our house.  I think they look so pretty with the daisies.

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    Lupine have to be one of the most prolific and showy of all the wildflowers.

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    They grow in abundance along the roadsides.

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    They make great bouquets.

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    The blue flowers seen here…

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    …and here is the meadow bell.

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    It’s our provincial flower in Dalarna…

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    …and grows almost everywhere!

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    Another prolific flower is “hundkex,” the white flower seen here with buttercups.  The translation for “hundkex” is “dog crackers!”

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    I think the mixed bouquets are my favorite.

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    There’s never a shortage…

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    …and there’s quite a variety.

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    The yellow flowers here are a type of dandelion.

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    This sweet bouquet was on the counter of Jobstryck – a shop that hand prints fabric.  So simple but so appealing.

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    My grandma always called these Johnny-Jump-Ups.

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    They are tenacious little things–growing between the rocks next to our log building and even poking their heads up through our porch steps.

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    I love their little smiling faces.

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    Wildflowers everywhere–even along the ditches.

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