Andrea spent the past 2 days in Dunedin for work. We took heaps of photos last year of the lupins around Queenstown, but through in Central Otago they don't seem to grow as much. The predominant wild flower over there is wild thyme. The Alexandra wild thyme festival starts this coming weekend (it's all about alternative art etc from what we can tell, having never attended) and the fields and hills both sides of Alexandra, through as far as Roxburgh in the south and Gibbston Valley in the northwest are all covered in light purple. It sort of looks like the rocks are slightly tinted with pinky-purple, it's only when you get up close that you realise that it's actually millions of tiny flowers. The hills will be at their best in a week, but here are the photos from today:
This first photo was taken looking across Lake Dunstan just above the Clyde Dam. All of the light greyish shading on the hills is actually wild thyme.
Looking across one of the fields further through the gorge towards Cromwell
And last but not least with some other wild flowers mixed in just before Cromwell - that's the back of the Pisa range (the other side from the Cardrona Valley) with tiny amounts of snow on it in the background, and again Lake Dunstan.
And last but not least with some other wild flowers mixed in just before Cromwell - that's the back of the Pisa range (the other side from the Cardrona Valley) with tiny amounts of snow on it in the background, and again Lake Dunstan.
And yes, Andrea dug up a little bit and brought it home to plant in our herb garden. Now we just have to hope that it didn't die over the last hour of the drive home... and that it doesn't take over our whole garden! You should see our Rosemary tree.....
3 comments:
The "wow factor" yet again!
You just keep on surprising us.
Beautiful.
It just keeps surprising us too!
Looks like the Heather in Scotland!
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