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<\/a>Wood anemone<\/p><\/div>\n
The equinox passed a couple of weeks ago, the air is filled with birdsong, some recognisable (teacher-teacher), some not, and though the broadleaves still stand bare, they have buds aplenty and the ground is carpeted with bright dog’s mercury in flower. Bracken is lifting its curled stems as I presume its ancestors did for hundreds of millions of years before there were any flowering plants.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Coltsfoot<\/p><\/div>\n
Winter’s snowdrops and crocuses have gone, and the\u00a0daisies and broom are expanding their numbers.\u00a0The bright green leaves of bluebells mark where the explosion of blue will come in the next weeks, and where I saw just one bluebell a few days ago, now many are lifting their unopened flowers above the ground. The whites of wood anemone and wood sorrel are coming into their best and the first wood avens are in flower. Dandelions are making an effort and some have reached the clock stage already.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Lesser celandine<\/p><\/div>\n
There are the yellows of wild daffodil, lesser celandine, creeping buttercups, golden saxifrage and primrose but the pinks are only just starting, the pink purslane and red campion growing within a few inches of each other. (PS I forgot the hairy bittercress and groundsel)<\/p>\n
A few days ago I had walked off the path to investigate\u00a0a hint of purple, to find a few violets. A couple of days later\u00a0the dog violets are everywhere.<\/p>\n Violets<\/p><\/div>\n Ahh, Spring.<\/p>\n Cuck-oo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Walking the dogs and I realised spring is definitely here. The equinox passed a couple of weeks ago, the air is filled with birdsong, some recognisable (teacher-teacher), some not, and though the broadleaves still stand bare, they have buds aplenty … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>