Friday 31 July 2009

Bleuets

It's cornflower time at the flower market! I love cornflowers though they are so rarely found these days out in the fields.
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C'est la saison des bleuets au marché aux fleurs. J'adore les bleuets, ils se font si rares au bord des champs.

20 comments:

VP said...

Strangely in Italian this is called fiordaliso. (Nothing to do with the fleur de lys...)

Small City Scenes said...

So so beautiful. such a striking blue. they make me cool just looking at them. Thank you!!! MB

Owen said...

Je n'en ai jamais vu dans un champ ici en France... uniquement chez des floristes... quel bleu magnifique quand même, bleu profond... royal...

Lowell said...

Shows how much I know! I thought cornflowers would be yellow.

Lovely photo; just superb color!

Clueless in Boston said...

Beautiful blue flowers. Like Jacob, I too thought cornflowers would be yellow.

James said...

I love the color of these flowers.

Lee Spangler said...

I wish I could buy you a bunch!

Un regard offert said...

Mettre un peu de couleurs dans sa vie

Cezar and Léia said...

Hello dear Ciel!
Wonderful flowers!
This blue colour is so vivid!
Léia

EG CameraGirl said...

I love cornflowers, too. Here they are annuals but they do reseed themselves if I don't mess around too much with the soil in my gardens.

B SQUARED said...

Hate to say it, but, I have never heard of them. Very pretty, though.

Buck said...

Wow! I don't think I ever saw blue cornflowers - and THAT is an incredible blue!!

Russ said...

Wow - that is some serious blue!

Cergie said...

Il est vrai que les coquelicots nous ont fait un long récital et que je n'ai vu qu'une fois des bleuets sauvages dans un champ cette année. Ceux de ton fleuriste me semblent déjà un peu moins sauvageons. Les encore moins sauvageons s'appellent "centaurées" et se reproduisent à foison dans les jardins.
Associés à des coquelicots des marguerites et des épis de blés les bleuets font de très jolis motifs de broderie pour une nappe.

cieldequimper said...

Ladies and gents: cornflowers ARE blue! At least the ones that used to grow wild with poppies in the fields when I was a child! It was so pretty, red and blue amidst the wheat...

Tammie Lee said...

the color of these little beauties is divine!

Spirithelpers

Dave said...

What a vibrant blue, beautiful.

Karen said...

Delightful photo of vibrant blue flowers. Makes me want to drive to the store and try to find something similar to put on my kitchen table.
In preparation for my visit, I have just watched Le Roi Soleil for the third time and am reading one biography of Louis XIV and have another one ordered.

Leif Hagen said...

Salut mon amie! In fact, I did help Aref get his Afghanistan blog registered with CDP so I'm also surprised that it didn't show up on the CDP site?? C'est bizarre, je sais!

Bon weekend! Bonjour d'EAGAN daily photo

crocrodyl said...

Great color of the flowers:)