The Flower of Scotland
The Thistle – The Flower of Scotland. The story goes the English were planning to attack a Scottish camp at night. They started to advance on the sleeping Scots but one of the Englishmen crawled into a Thistle and gave out a yell thus alerting the Scots to the coming attack. The Scots managed to gather their wits about them and fend of the attack. From that moment onwards the Thistle has been the national flower.
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sally williams
Beautiful, I tried to capture one of these when i was in the UK…not nearly as impressive as this.
Steven McEwan
it was taken inside my tent in Pitlochry! Thanks for your comments.
Lorraine Creagh
Fantastic story Steven, We have them here also and they make a great subject to photograph. Nicely done
Steven McEwan
Skeeter – Cheers!
MaryO
Great story and fabe capture of this beautiful national flower.
Els Steutel
beautiful picture
Marcia Luly
beautiful image…nice and sharp!
Lisa Trainer
Wow.
dinghysailor1
I didn’t know that! Lovely detailed closeup – excellent work
janik
Lovely capture.
Gerard Rotse
Beautiful and so sharp. Congratulations.
BKvonBernhard
Very well done.
andygibb
stunning macro…great light and detail
Dimf
Brilliant flower shot.
Michelle Boyer
Great shot- nice subject :)
Robert Elliott
Stunning image !!
Chris Clark
brilliant image and love the story
Mayina
Very nice
naturelover
Love growing thistles, and this shot is great!
stephaniek
Great close up. At first I thought that this was a cactus flower.
joak
best wee thistle shot ive seen!