Green is the colour of spring…..
Green that is at first nowhere to be seen…then wham! like an express train it is everywhere. It is also a special Tint (or may be Hue) of Green often called Spring Green. It is the leaves that show it the most and it is a deceptive look. The leaves tend to look light and transparent glistening in the sunshine…yet they cast just as heavy a shadow over the woodland floor as they do in mid summer.
The ‘understore’….plants that have lain dormant over the winter are now spreading a thick green carpet everywhere, drowning the bluebells, swamping pathways and stretching as best they can to reach the little light that seeps through the canopy of leaves…but this is what makes woodlands so special in spring. You can feel and smell the fresh new season as you pick your way through the now indistinct paths….
It is ironic that it is the very rain that I have been complaining about that creates this rich green world.There is also something sinister yet attractive about the dark damp trunks of the trees, stark against the brightness of the greens….and if you look hard and you will still find the odd small clump of Bluebells fighting to survive a few days longer.
Its Official….that rain we have been complaining about. By the 19th May we had had more rain this month than in the whole of an average May.
21st May
(C) David Oakes 2015
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Ah… not zo long ago the BBC broadcasted a series by Alan Titchmarch on Britisch Nature. FAB series! In one of them he explained why Britain has so much more rain than we on the continent get. Although we feel it’s more than enough. 🙂
I found this for you:
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/the-climate-of-the-british-isles.html
It does explain quite a lot. Very interesting as well.
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Beautiful.
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Your rain has worked wonders, as has ours. After a phenomenally dry winter and the lowest lake level I can remember, things are getting back to normal, and it’s a joy. It’ll be a while before we see this extent of green, but it can’t be long. Love the bluebells, David!
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Ye..it has been an odd (well different) winter and early spring. Dry for the most part so I guess that the recent rains were only to be expected even though they have been exceptionally heavy….the upside I suppose is that as it has been a cool spring the Bluebells once they have shown themselves have staid with us a little longer….I have always felt it such a shame that such a beautiful woodland flower should only be a 9 day wonder…so this year it is a bonus. We will see what other surprises spring/summer has in-store for us.
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