Sunday 12 April 2020

Easter flowers

Lots of spring flowers down the bottom of the garden, rather badly snapped left.

Four sorts of bluebell: regular English, Spanish, white and mauve.

A clump of celandines - well enough, but the show we usually have to the right of the snap not very good this year. A flower which I am fond of.

A much larger clump of yellow dead nettle, aka the variegated yellow archangel, aka lamiastrum galeobdolon subspecies argentatum. One of several clumps, another flower which I am fond of. I like the shade and texture of the yellow. But the snap is pretty hopeless.

A small head of common primrose, just visible right, starting to go over.

Various small cuckoo pint plants, just visible among the yellow dead nettles. A couple of much more striking plants, complete with their strange flower shoots, further back.

Small, five petalled purple flower, close to the ground, between the yellow dead nettles and the path to their right, visible if you click to enlarge. Bing does not find it, while Google does find it - but fails to name it. For some reason geranium sticks in the mind, which it does find. So possibly "Geranium sanguineum 'Canon Miles'. Geranium sanguineum is a species that has common names bloody crane's-bill and/ or bloody geranium".

Small clump of carex pendula, right, in full flower. A plant this blog sees a lot of. See, for example, the top of reference 1.

This in the course of the second of my three shifts of bricks today, three which took my total to 42 shifts, 664 bricks and 88,312 yards since lockdown records began.

Somewhere along the way, a fine roast leg of lamb, with boiled vegetables, including brown rice, rather than roast potatoes. Followed by a fine steamed jam sponge, without custard, yellow or otherwise (this being an illusion to Felicity's lunch time preferences). Washed down with a spot of sauvignon blanc. From the Waimea Estate, via Majestic, Epsom. Jameson from Amazon stood down. Possibly followed by a light snooze.

PS: BH goes for cranesbill (all one word) on the basis of zooming into the snap. Hopefully to be confirmed in the morning. As with birds, the amount of variety within a species is surprising - and confuses identification.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/08/albury-two.html.

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