Today is Lady Day, the Christian festival celebrating the Annunciation of Mary and the Immaculate Conception and today is also my sister's birthday.....Happy Birthday L.
Lady Day was the day when servants and farm workers made an agreement with their employers that they wouldn't change their jobs in the next year.
I found just one piece of weather lore
An East wind on Lady Day
Will keep on 'til the end of May
The primroses are still going strong all the way down my meadow, they've spread really well since we stopped cutting all the grass. In the first year here I bought some pots of cowslips but only one seems to have survived although I have got a couple of clumps of what we always called Five Fingers but are really Oxslips.
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| Primroses |
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| Oxlip |
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| Cowslip |
Also growing are are few small clumps of Wild Garlic or Ramsons. These were also planted in our first year when BiL brought a bucket full dug from the woodland where he hauls out fallen trees.
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| Wild garlic/Ramsons |
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| 2 Egg omelette, with chopped ramson leaves on a slice of home made bread - delicious |
To celebrate the spring sunshine over the last few days, here's another Flower Fairy Illustration from Cicely Mary Barker.
Enjoy the sun again - if you have it today - we might get snow on Saturday Brrrr.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
Enjoy the sun again - if you have it today - we might get snow on Saturday Brrrr.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
Read your blog everyday. Lovely to see your flowers.{Laura's mum, friend of H}
ReplyDeleteHello Laura's Mum. Thank you for reading - hope I can keep going with bits and bobs of life in Suffolk
DeleteMorning Sue. The hedge that runs along the front of our 4 houses here in the lane smells strongly of garlic....I must investigate, there's obviously wild garlic in it somewhere. Primroses everywhere in grass verges here, it's one of the things I love about Spring.
ReplyDeleteMake sure you know what it is as leaves of Lords and Ladies can look similar to start with
DeleteMakes me think of the great paintings of the Annunciation.
ReplyDeleteThere were a couple of paintings in the Saints book. De Vinci and Roger A d'Hulst - not heard of him.
DeleteThey were not very big pictures so I didn't share them
Our ramsons are rampant so I may make pesto later.
ReplyDeleteLovely.
Deletesnow? I didn't know that.
ReplyDeleteSuch jolly little flowers. I used the have a flower fairies book many moons ago, loved it.
Your omelette looks good.
I'm sure that's what they said......certainly turning colder anyway. I'll go and check Met. Office website
DeleteThe Met Office says 7 degrees the lowest daytime so no snow after all - thankfully
DeleteI had a few native primroses and cowslips but over the year, now got oxslips.
ReplyDeleteWe tried so many times to get Cowslips established at the smallholding - but they never did well
DeleteNow I must find out the difference between cow and ox lips.
ReplyDeleteThere is quite a difference and Cowslips are smaller
DeleteWe have primulas which seem to be taking over one corner of a border. Also in there somewhere is a cowslip, which I love.
ReplyDeleteMy Primulas have gone mad this year and crossed with Primroses in places to give pink primroses
DeleteYour omelette look inviting.
ReplyDeleteI love the flower fairies I must have a look for my book.
I heard the weather was changing so do hope the flowers will last I little bit longer.
Hazel c uk 🌈🌈🌈
Much colder for the weekend I think
DeleteDo you know I didn't know what Ramsons is/are? I do now thanks to your lovely post! Mmmm...I could just eat that omelette right now. It looks delicious. I love Flower Fairies too and I thank you for such a lovely happy post today x
ReplyDeleteThey are very prolific in Wales where it's wetter and in damp woods in other parts of the country.
DeleteMarch 25th is also my daughter's birthday :)
ReplyDeleteLovely to see things establishing in a Wild Corner of the garden. I've often thought it would be nice to have an area dedicated to wild flowers or to let spreading herbs grow wild.
Enjoy your day, Mxx
Happy Birthday to your daughter.
DeleteI'm lucky to have a bit of meadow and trees where I can let things grow.
I do love the Flower Fairies and your omelette looks lovely, but what are ramson leaves, please. Helen S.
ReplyDeleteRamsons are wild garlic they have garlic flavoured leaves. Prolific in wetter places.
DeleteYour flowers are all so pretty. I especially love the oxlips!
ReplyDeleteThe weather is potty at the moment isn't it. It was 19 degrees here in Wales yesterday, a bit cooler today and like you say it's due to keep dropping until weekend. Make the most of any good weather I say. Like the chickens do I stand in the sun whenever it appears and really enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteToday the dogs are draped on the back of the sofa in pools of sunshine … I won't try that one!!
Great post. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteYour first harvest of many, I hope!
ReplyDeleteCicely Mary Barker spent her final years in a village not far from me.Arilx
ReplyDeleteSorry you couldnt listen/watch Disturbed. Do you have You Tube on your computer? Only other way I could think of is if you did a google search. Its very powerful an amazing voice. Heading for even bigger lock down here. Not happy!
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/embed/Bk7RVw3I8eg?clip= try typing this in then hit.
ReplyDeleteLovely Spring flowers. Thanks for sharing. My garlic is coming up but no flowers yet, except for some crocuses.
ReplyDeleteI can never remember the difference between cowslips and oxslips. Lovely spring photos to take our minds of other tbings.
ReplyDeleteAha, Oxlip is a different thing from cowslip! I must learn to spot it
ReplyDeleteJust to confuse there is also something called a false oxlip !
ReplyDeleteFlower Fairies used to be so popular to do in cross stitch many years ago.
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