A Survey of Flora in Connemara

On our bus tour to Connemara yesterday, we made many photo stops before and after spending time at our main destination. At each photo stop we had ten minutes to take pictures of everything we found interesting. I noticed a lot of cool flowers so I decided to take pictures of them for all you botanists at home.
Yellow buttercups were growing in with some pretty ugly weeds but I liked the way they looked up against the stone wall.


These are some more berries that were growing along the path (well not so much a path as a main road, but it would be considered a path in the states) like at the Burren. I wasn't sure what they were or if they were really blackberries so I didn't eat them but I would have liked to.


I don't know what kind of flowers these are but they are a very pretty blue color. They were growing on a big bush outside someone's house. Taking pictures of them almost caused me to miss the bus.


This, in fact, is not a flower. It is actually sheep poop but it is like a flower in that it is on the ground and it is everywhere in Connemara.


These flowers were everywhere at our main stop of the day, which was Kylemore Abby. They look like little Chinese lanterns and are very bright shades of pink and purple.

These were also at Kylmore Abbey. There were big bunches of them growing outside the gates to the pathway. They didn't look very well cared for, though, because there were a lot of dead/dying flowers among the living ones.

I hope you have enjoyed this look into the plant life of Connemara, County Galway.