Spring flowers

Posted on April 17, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bluebells, Daffodils, Fortnight, Gardening, Life, Plants, Spring, Time, Tulips, UK, Weather2 Comments

It’s almost the end of tulips and daffodils season. Soon it will be bluebells and other spring flowers… Leaves are opening on the trees. Buds swelling with the water that is falling from the April showers. We decided to go out for the day and headed south for a few miles. You could see more leaves on trees the further south we went. I remember hearing on a TV programme once that you could see the spring slowly creeping up the country as the days lengthened and the daffodils flowered. It might have said it takes two weeks to go from the far south to the far north? Not absolutely certain though.

Green, Blue, Green, Blue, Brown..

Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bluebells, Colours, Layers, mossy ground, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Trees2 Comments

Washed sky

Below tree

Above bluebells

And soil.

Laced branches

Overlap ripples

Twisted leaves

Tie flowers

In knots

Brown soil

Gently wrapped

In moss?

Layers of colour

Knowledge

Immersed.

Tulips

Posted on May 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aqualegia, Bluebells, Exercise, Gardening, Layout app, Lesser celandine, Photo, Plants, Russian vine, Tulips, Wild garlicLeave a comment

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This image was something I did last year. We had some pure white tulips in the garden.

This year we have had less tulips. I think because our squirrel has taken to digging them up in the winter. We are going past the tulip season now. Instead we have Spanish and English bluebells, aqualegia starting to flower and wild garlic and lesser celandine adding splashes of colour to the garden.

Today we were pulling out hunks of ivy from the ground and from trees where its thick stems have scrambled up. We will fill our recycling bin completely over a couple of days. I was also pulling more pieces of Russian vine out of the trees at the front of the garden, it’s amazing how quickly it grows.

Tired and achy. But it’s good exercise.

Helibores are flowering

Posted on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bluebells, Crocuses, Daffodils, Garden, Gardening, Poem, Poetry, Snowdrops, Spring, Windflower, Winter and spring, Wood anemoneLeave a comment

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Helibores are flowering,

Snowdrops soon will bloom,

Then will follow crocuses

With the light of the moon.

Daffodils and Tulips, all in a row,

Then come the wind flowers,

Wood anemone,

Finally in sunshine

Bluebells, for to see….

Spring will alive

With flowers for you and me.

Six trees painting

Posted on May 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Avrylic on canvas, Bluebells, Colours, Rode hall, Staffordshire, TreesLeave a comment

Inspired by the Rode Hall bluebell walk we did a week ago. The vertical trunks that were so evenly spaced with the darker fence in front made a striking photo. I’m not sure if I’ve managed to capture that here. Bluebells are a difficult colour to capture. I tried mixing ultramarine with white, then when that didn’t work I used a bit of deep magenta, and also pale Windsor violet. I used a bit of metallic blue to give them a sparkle.

The trees are mainly sap green with yellow and white added.

About 12 x8 inches, acrylic on canvas.

Bluebells at Rode Hall

Posted on May 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Bluebells, Environment, Flowers, Garden, Photography, Plants, Rode hall, Rode heath, Walk3 Comments

Rode Hall is a beautiful place and the gardens are blooming with bluebells. The last day of the bluebell walks is today. 8th May 2019.

There are other plants on display including rhododendron, campion, tulips, and even some narcissi that are still flowering.

The hall is open on Wednesdays and Weekends. They have a farmers market which I think is on the first Saturday of the month? They have a good tea room that offers hot food, cake and drinks. They are having a plant collectors fair on 27th May. (Bank Holiday).

Rode hall is off the A34 North of Stoke-on-Trent at Rode Heath. It is along a road on the left hand side and is signposted.

Bluebells in February?

Posted on February 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bluebells, Garden, Gardening, Hyacinths, Identifying plants, Life, Spring2 Comments

These plants are growing outside in a box and my husband bought them in to show me as my cold is no better and I haven’t been outside because I feel too poorly.

What are they? They look like bluebells but they are not curved over like British ones. They might be Spanish bluebells which grow upright, with thicker stems. But bluebells don’t normally flower till April or May? Also the flowers are sticking out sideways. I guess they are actually a form of hyacinth? They don’t have many bells on them but they do smell like hyacinths. On the other hand they are not like the ones we had on the windowsill and are nothing like grape hyacinths that we sometimes grow in the spring.

So my question is to any gardeners out there…. What are they?

Mallaband-Brown

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