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eds I collected in the Lavaux area between Lausanne and Montreux (which is by the way a beautiful Unesco treasure that I will cover someday!). See first this rare one:<figure id="0831"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*MFuKUuAD9n7Np0i_qXJjFg.png"><figcaption>Notice the very faint pink of these mostly white flowers. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>These are other members of the Antirrhinum majus family that came from Lavaux, but featuring the more common pink (rather magenta?) color:<figure id="fd74"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Wqzm8GO_WwOOPkWVnWiEwg.png"><figcaption>Same kind of flower as above, but this is the dominating color. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>Changing to bluish tones, this lovely flower whose name I couldn’t define with certainty -if you know it please leave it as a comment:<figure id="3a52"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*whHONzIAecIEzxrvDUfZpA.jpeg"><figcaption>Wild blues with various other colors out of focus. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>Some more wild blue-violet flowers in our balcony:<figure id="5fcb"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*8aldxXCwkTk3StCRaD3VYw.png"><figcaption>This blue flower is tiny; this whole bunch of flowers is around 2 cm wide so each flower is less than 5 mm big. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure><figure id="b3e8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*_0e9HQ65snkvSoCDaI

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st9w.png"><figcaption>These blue-violet bell-shaped flowers grow in all rocky spots around here. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>And back to pink with Epilobium hirsutum:<figure id="054d"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*xYLTAgBnKXfumCQ_Lf_MUw.png"><figcaption>Each of these pink beauties is around 1 cm in diameter. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>To finish with these white aster flowers that need a brush!<figure id="13e9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*o9xcIaXJ3PC-VUAkPRlw1A.jpeg"><figcaption>White aster flowers. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure><h1 id="a746">On closing this album…</h1>These photos were taken in the middle of summer. I also have photos taken in early spring, when other flowers bloom, to come in a future story. And I will stay alert for fall flowers for yet another story featuring photos of the balcony jungle.I am a nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and in computers. I write about everything that lies within my broad sphere of interests. Check out my <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/lists">lists</a> for more stories. <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/membership">Become a Medium member</a> to access all stories by me and other writers, and <a href="https://lucianosphere.medium.com/subscribe">subscribe to get my new stories</a> by email (original affiliate links of the platform).</article></body>

A corner of jungle in my balcony, where the photo shots of this story took place. Photo by author.

A corner of jungle and wildflowers in my balcony

My balcony has full sunshine all day long, which allows all kinds of local weeds and wildflowers to grow vigorously in summer and perpetuate year after year. They have beautiful flowers that blend with our non-native plants into a quite dense and colorful mini-jungle in summer. Check out these snapshots and close-ups of the flowers.

Starting with one of our favorites, a kind of wild malva with pink flowers:

And continuing with this plant I have found in the plateaus up to around 1000 m.a.s.l. around here, which gives a 1-meter tall stem with big yellow flowers. Its height is in fact encoded in its scientific name, Oenothera longissima.

Top of a 1-meter tall flower stem! (you can appreciate its height in the opening photo). Photo by author.

Stars of our balcony are a quite large family of wild Antirrhinum majus that arrived some years ago from seeds I collected in the Lavaux area between Lausanne and Montreux (which is by the way a beautiful Unesco treasure that I will cover someday!). See first this rare one:

Notice the very faint pink of these mostly white flowers. Photo by author.

These are other members of the Antirrhinum majus family that came from Lavaux, but featuring the more common pink (rather magenta?) color:

Same kind of flower as above, but this is the dominating color. Photo by author.

Changing to bluish tones, this lovely flower whose name I couldn’t define with certainty -if you know it please leave it as a comment:

Wild blues with various other colors out of focus. Photo by author.

Some more wild blue-violet flowers in our balcony:

This blue flower is tiny; this whole bunch of flowers is around 2 cm wide so each flower is less than 5 mm big. Photo by author.

These blue-violet bell-shaped flowers grow in all rocky spots around here. Photo by author.

And back to pink with Epilobium hirsutum:

Each of these pink beauties is around 1 cm in diameter. Photo by author.

To finish with these white aster flowers that need a brush!

On closing this album…

These photos were taken in the middle of summer. I also have photos taken in early spring, when other flowers bloom, to come in a future story. And I will stay alert for fall flowers for yet another story featuring photos of the balcony jungle.

I am a nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and in computers. I write about everything that lies within my broad sphere of interests. Check out my lists for more stories. Become a Medium member to access all stories by me and other writers, and subscribe to get my new stories by email (original affiliate links of the platform).