Beauty on Lughnasa, 1st August, the ancient festival of the first harvest ☆ Taken today, #Dublin ♡ #gratitude #lughnasa #butterflies #flowers #nature #ireland

Just a bee having a feed on a perfect flower ♡☆♡ Today, National Botanic Gardens #Dublin #flowersonfriday #beefriday #bloomscrolling #nature #summer

Just a Northern Marsh Orchid doing its fine thing by Dollymount Strand #Dublin ♡ #nature #flowers #spéirghorm #ireland #bloomscrolling #purple

Bees that primarily feast on rhododendron flowers (poisonous to people) are said to produce "mad honey" which can produce hallucinations along with loss of vision, balance, or consciousness in humans who consume it. #FolkloreSunday 🎨collections.mfa.org/objects/261977

Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria, was once used to flavour mead, the ancient honey wine. Mead infused with herbs was called “metheglin”, from Welsh words meaning “healing drink”; a fitting name for a beverage flavoured with a plant long valued as a healing herb. #FolkloreSunday

Let's take a moment to appreciate this speckled Martagon Lily 🧡 Folk tradition says that if you treat this lily with respect it will bring good fortune & protection from mountain storms ✨ #YellowSunday #SundayYellow #Stunday #Folklore #Nature #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

The enterprising bumble for #Stunday ♡

Another gorgeous bumble for #WorldBeeDay ♡ #Dublin #Ireland #Nature #Biodiversity #Pollinators

The beautiful & hard working bumblebee #HappyWorldBeeDay ♡

As children, we used to hold a buttercup under eachothers' chins If it glowed yellow it meant you loved butter! Buttercups = fearbán in Irish ♡ Photographed yesterday by Dollymount Strand #Dublin #folklore #irish #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #memories #ireland #speirghorm

Bellflowers or Campanula generally signify hope in folklore, perhaps because they flourish at this time of year While their bell shape is said to be a portal to the fairies ☆♡☆ Found this honeybee investigating earlier today! #folklore #plants #flowers #nature #photography #bees #pollinators

#Soft #BlueskyArtShow Taken in Dingle (An Daingean) last weekend during #feilenabealtaine What a peaceful, happy little lamb! ☆♡☆ #Kerry #Ireland

Hawthorn epitomises this time in May for me Known as the 'lone bush' in Irish folklore, it is said to be connected to the Sí (or fairies) & serve as a gateway to the Otherworld ♡☆♡ #folklore #fairies #myths #legends #flowers #plants #nature #photography #Ireland

Pretty in pink ar Lá Bealtaine! Happy May Day ♡ #bealtaine #mayday #flowers #nature #photography #kerry #speirghorm #bloomscrolling #may1st #pink

Bees ♡ Rapeseed! #yellowsunday #stunday #wildflowers #nature #pollinators #speirghorm

And out she popped overnight... The elegance of a Dutch Iris #flowersonfriday ♡ #gardening #bloomscrolling #nature #photography #speirghorm

I had Glendalough to myself this morning. All the history & beauty in one location still blows me away after all the years visiting this site ♡ #speirghorm #ireland #history #archaeology #wicklow

I watched this beautiful bumble for quite a while today... ◇ Howth coast, Dublin #stunday #bees #nature #macro #photography

In Cumbrian dialects, thimble-flower is foxglove, tod is fox, bummel is bee in lore, faeries gave a fox, foxglove petals to put on it's toes - the fox's gloves - to raid the hen house without being heard more in my: 'Folklore of the Lake District' #folkloresunday 📷 Alan McFadyen

Happy #FlowersonFriday! Look at these beauties! ♡ ◇ Botanic Gardens, Dublin #nature #bloomscrolling #springtime

Spotted yesterday in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin First bee I've seen this year with pollen sacs on hind legs! And the season begins! ♡ #InsectThursday #nature #photography #macro #bees #springtime #bloomscrolling

For #StandingStoneSunday Taken last week at Loughcrew, Co.Meath #Ireland #archaeology #history #photography

Folklore describes #StDavid granting Irish monk Modomnoc permission to bring bees from his monastery in #Wales to #Ireland in the 6th century David prayed that bees would flourish in Ireland from that day forth Thank you St David! ♡ #StDavidsDay #folklore #tradition #stainedglasssunday #bees

My reflection in Walter De Maria’s Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown ◇Naoshima, Japan #Round #Blueskyartshow

A 5000-year-old doorway! ◇ Seefin Passage Tomb, Wicklow Mountains #archaeology #history #heritage #culture #Ireland #nature

The garden is giving again Pure joy! ☆ #nature #spring #outdoors #bloomscrolling #purplefriday #plants #gardening #pollination #bees

The rain stopped for just long enough to fully take in this special example of Neolithic art ♡ It's found inside Cairn T in Loughcrew, an area known as 'Sliabh na Cailleach' or 'Mountain of the Witch' & is 5000 years old ☆♡☆ #history #archaeology #folklore #heritage #Meath #Ireland

#Wood #BlueskyArtshow ♡☆♡ #Wicklow #Ireland #photography #nature

As well as #StValentine's connection with romantic love, he is also said to be patron saint of beekeepers, charged with protecting beehives and ensuring the sweetness of honey... #Honey being a synonym for a beloved... Happy Valentine's Day ♡ #folklore #legend #love #bees

Today is #StGobnaits feastday 💛 A beloved woman whose story is mostly known via #folklore she has inspired as a fierce warrior, tenacious female & patroness of the #bees But Ireland's landscape remembers her. Holy sites & townlands bear her namesake across #Ireland to this day #LegendaryWednesay