I have a very organised garden

[fivemack]

And I am an optimist, so despite the total failure of the last flower-recognition, here are some more Miscellaneous Flowers if anyone recognises them

I think the top right is a marigold; the bottom right grows on a very flimsy stalk; the bottom left grows very close to the ground; the top left is the shy blue flower of my previous posting

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Coo! Do you have any idea why the snails do that?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I found a whole lot of snails hiding behind a large weed, worryingly close to the one remaining undevoured-by-snails broccolus in my broccoli patch, so decided that I should virtuously feed the thrushes of the neighbourhood by transferring the snails to a large flat surface.

I then thought it would be fun to line up the snails in a line; unlike ducks or kittens, once aligned they remain in line long enough to photograph, before crawling away to the underside of the roof of the bird-table.

I believe there is such a thing as a Processional Caterpillar, whose colonies march in lines without human intervention, but these snails are an example of marginally-intelligent design.

[liv]

I have actually seen a naturally occurring straight line of snails. It was when I was out very early in the morning, on a damp day. Many many snails crawled out of a hedge and slithered towards the sunlight at the slow snail's pace of snails in the shade. And they'd all got about equally far when I came across them, dozens and dozens of them, assorted sizes but all in a row. The row was several tens of paces long, too.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Hum. It scares me how gullible I sometimes am.

[tanac.livejournal.com]

The top right looks more like a zinnia than a marigold, at least the marigolds I'm familiar with.

Wonderful pictures.

[lnr]

I couldn't tell you what the flowers were, though Mike also suspected Marigold.

Love the lined up snails though, and the bottom two flowers are really pretty whatever they are.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I'd suspect the top left flower or being some variety of primrose or primula.

[darcydodo]

Darn, I even know what the lower left flower's seedpod looks like, but I'm not sure what it's called.

The top left, coincidentally, looks very similar to a morning glory, but it's not — I'd also be inclined to go with the primrose suggestion, though the flower shape's a bit wrong. The leaves look right, though.

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Convolvulus tricolour - what makes you think it's not?

I'd agree that top right is a marigold. Although Dave could be right with Dahlia - we need more sense of scale, but the fact that the other two I've identified will grow happily without intervention (and with snails around) means I'd guess not.

Bottom left is Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-mist).

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

omg world's most awesome snail picture!

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

They arranged themselves in small snail orgies and one pose which, if only I'd got a good picture of it, was the perfect snail answer to a lolrus. But I could never get the exposure and depth of field quite right. Unexpectedly hard things to photograph, snails.

[dave [earth.li] (from livejournal.com)]

I would put top right as a dahlia (http://images.google.com/images?q=dahlia), but I don't know how big it is.

And I've seen the bottom left all over the place, but can't remember its name. Is there no online plant-identification website? If not, it might be an interesting website to start. Think 20 questions for plants, collaborative, very user generated content, web2.0.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I find it really hard to help with the flower identification when I don't know how big they are. Are all the flower heads really the same size?

Of course, I don't know much about flowers, so that's a setback too.

[sparrowsion]

Bottom left looks rather like nigella, or love-in-the-mist. (Which I discovered this year because they were one of the few of the seeds 1ngi planted which didn't get munched by the snails as soon as they sprouted.)

[orielwen.livejournal.com]

I suspect the top right one is a calendula. Top left might be some variety of morning glory; I agree with sion_a about bottom left being nigella; and I've seen bottom right before, possibly even on seed packets, but I couldn't tell you its name.