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
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