Yesterday, after a rainy day when I also had the laundry room booked for the afternon, I did not get out until rather late (or early evening). But on my walk around the old cemetery I had another of those "magic light" moments (cf previous post), as the sun fell on this plant with the huge leaves and the tall blue flowers - whose name I could not remember, so I had to look it up again now. (Google Image Search makes that a rather easy job nowadays, though...) Hosta, or plantain lily in English. In Swedish funkia.
They grow of many of the old graves in this cemetery, and sometimes in combination with these yellow ones below (which I had to look up as well). Lysimachia punctata, or yellow loosestrife in English, praktlysing in Swedish.
The leaves of the hostas are also beautiful in/after rain, as they tend to collect and show off the raindrops... The photo below is from back in May, before the plants were in bloom.
The national flag of Sweden consists of
a yellow or gold 'Nordic cross'.
Blue and yellow have been used as
Swedish colours at least since 1275.
[Wikipedia]
