April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers…..
The old rhyme may well be true even if this year April has, until the last few days, not provided many showers. But the flowers both in our garden and in the wild are showing their colours.
The Poppy above is a bit of a ‘Cross Over’…..usually found along country lanes, in the shadow of hedges. However these little beauties have self seeded in our garden some years ago and for a few brief days flourish. Not sure what their real name is but we have always known them as Welsh Poppies. They are similar to Icelandic Poppies but very much smaller. The single flower head is not much bigger then my thumb nail, it is carried on a slim but long stem that hardly looks strong enough, the length of the stem depending upon the growth around it as it stretches to reach above all else. Colour is orange fading to deep yellow and the petals just like tissue paper.
Again many class this little wonder as a weed…..so let me repeat my mantra “a weed is just a flower in the wrong place”……but who’s to say which is the wrong place.
30th April
(C) David Oakes 2015
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Well these were certainly in the right place to inspire such luminously lovely images! Regards Thom.
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Thank you……They and others are always welcome to ‘drop in’ to our garden. they may not stay long but do seem to come back each year.
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Absolutely fabulous photos, David. Stunning! This last day of April is also BELTANE. The fertility feast where old pagans asked blessing for fertile land and farm animals. The great fires were lit and people drove their farm animals between the fires for this blessing. It’s also become the fertility feast for people. Spring has now also the promise of Summer and acres of golden grain, animals with offspring and new babys.
https://wicca.com/celtic/akasha/beltane.htm
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/beltanemayday/a/AllAboutBeltane.htm
Blessed Beltane everybody. With all the best wishes for all of you to have a wonderful spring and summer.
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At last we can say the seasons are moving forward with some haste
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Beautiful photographs… If the subject is flowers there is not a wrong place for me 🙂 Thank you dear David, have a nice day and new month, love, nia
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Yep…some folk get hung up about being so gardening correct (-:
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I love the quintessential English cottage gardens. Of course there is a chocolatebox cottage there as well, then. 🙂
But I much more happy with gardens that seem to be going their own way. Not being choked by constraints. LIke a corset, or whatever the verb is in English. I do see my limitatations 🙂
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Sound correct to me (-:
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