I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. For my final post I am going to share a few photos of the wildflowers at this time of…
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scenes around the local area
Flower Portrait: Lantern Tree
Crinodendron hookerianum known as the Chilean lantern tree, is an evergreen tree in the family Elaeocarpaceae. It is endemic to Chile. A beautiful, ornamental, evergreen shrub or small tree named after the lantern-shaped, crimson to deep carmine-pink flowers, suspended from the undersides of its branches from May to August. It is perfect for a partially…
festival of spring #9
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. Common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) is also known as the May Tree and is so called after the month in…
Flower Portrait: Echium
Pride of Madeira, Echium candicans, is perfect for adding a touch of drama to both exotic and cottage garden settings. Like all echiums, its flowers are adored by bees and other pollinators. Tall spikes of intense blue blooms are borne on strong branching stems in spring and summer. In milder climates, like Cornwall, it can…
festival of spring #8
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. Gorse (Ulex europaeus): There are three types of gorse in the UK which are all very similar. Common Gorse…
festival of spring #7
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. May is when the blossom appears – frothy clouds of pink and white, as long as the wind and…
festival of spring #6
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. If you visit Cornwall during the early spring you may be fooled into thinking that the masses of white…
festival of spring #5
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. Spring in the countryside is when the umbellifers appear, first of these are Alexanders or Horse Parsley (Smyrnium olusatrum) which…
festival of spring #3
I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season and share something that is happening in or around my neighbourhood each week. The hedgerows and woodland edges in England will be full of this white blossom now. Often mistaken for Hawthorn the…
The Glory of Autumn
It’s been a while since I did a post about the lanes around me, having nowhere else to go during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 meant that once we were free to go wherever we wanted to I lost the incentive to explore locally, but the lanes are still there and there is always…
Cornwall in Colours 