Spring? Summer!
Today was very warm and I was down to short sleeve T shirt at one point. Sunny all day with smell of cut grass…
Did I say winter is good time to see gardens because one can see the structure? It is true, but let’s be honest, spring is so much better! Yes, bright colours pull your eyes towards them and it is more difficult to see the structure of the garden, but so what! The structure can stay as background! These colours of Crocus, Daffodils etc. and signs of new shoots everywhere on a sunny day in early Spring is just magical.
Dew on Wild Flower Meadow
I was weeding and mulching in Walled Garden today. Head gardener asked me to pull any Spanish Bluebell out of beds so I asked if there are anything else look similar to bluebell shoots. He mentioned Camassia, with pointy end of leaves and upside of leaves are silver. We have a colony of Camassia on Annex Terrace under magnolia trees so I went over to see them. Now I can tell the difference.
Some of the spring bulbs are similar. Scilla, Chionodoxa, Hyacinthoides (bluebells) and Puschkinia are all blue and star or bell shaped flowers. Also these names changed over the years a lot and for example, Hyacinthoides (bluebells) were once Scilla, then Endymion before becoming current name. There is a species of Puschkinia called P. scilloides. Oh well, that is on top of struggling with Latin (that is, for me, on top of English!) and I wish my brain was a bit younger...
Bulb meadow now has yellow of Daffodils
Narcissus cyclamineus
View from the Tower
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