The riot of colours from spring is gone, but it does not mean that there are no flowers to be seen now. At the moment the white flowers seem to dominate, and this year there seems to be more wild carrots – Daucus carota – than I have ever seen before, maybe as a result of all the rain in June. When you look at the flowers, it is easy to see why it is called Queen Anne’s lace in N. America, but if you scratch the root, the smell of carrots is so strong that you understand that this is the origin of the cultivated carrots.
I must admit it took me quite a while to find out what these plants with the large white flower umbels were; I never saw any good illustrations, so I was a little embarrassed when Arne Strid told me they were just wild carrots. I have to wait to get a good photo of the individual umbels; it was terribly windy today, so it was impossible to get sharp shots, but I think they are really beautiful, and a bit strange with the purplish-black flower in the centre, it looks almost like a small insect.
I wasn’t sure where to present a biennial plant, so I finally decided to place it with the fruits and vegetables