Wednesday 25 March 2020

March 25th and Spring Flowers

Here's another cheerful post to avoid the new C word!

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.


Primroses


Oxlip












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.
Wild garlic/Ramsons
 They've taken a long time to establish because it's probably a bit too dry for them here but when I cut some to add a bit of flavour to an omelette on Monday I spotted some tiny leaves away from the main bits - so hopefully they will spread now they've got going.

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

37 comments:

  1. Read your blog everyday. Lovely to see your flowers.{Laura's mum, friend of H}

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    1. Hello Laura's Mum. Thank you for reading - hope I can keep going with bits and bobs of life in Suffolk

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  2. Morning 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.

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    1. Make sure you know what it is as leaves of Lords and Ladies can look similar to start with

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  3. Makes me think of the great paintings of the Annunciation.

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    1. There were a couple of paintings in the Saints book. De Vinci and Roger A d'Hulst - not heard of him.
      They were not very big pictures so I didn't share them

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  4. Our ramsons are rampant so I may make pesto later.

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  5. snow? I didn't know that.
    Such jolly little flowers. I used the have a flower fairies book many moons ago, loved it.
    Your omelette looks good.

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    1. I'm sure that's what they said......certainly turning colder anyway. I'll go and check Met. Office website

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    2. The Met Office says 7 degrees the lowest daytime so no snow after all - thankfully

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  6. I had a few native primroses and cowslips but over the year, now got oxslips.

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    1. We tried so many times to get Cowslips established at the smallholding - but they never did well

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  7. Now I must find out the difference between cow and ox lips.

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    1. There is quite a difference and Cowslips are smaller

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  8. We have primulas which seem to be taking over one corner of a border. Also in there somewhere is a cowslip, which I love.

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    1. My Primulas have gone mad this year and crossed with Primroses in places to give pink primroses

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  9. Your omelette look inviting.
    I 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 🌈🌈🌈

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  10. Do 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

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    1. They are very prolific in Wales where it's wetter and in damp woods in other parts of the country.

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  11. March 25th is also my daughter's birthday :)
    Lovely 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

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    1. Happy Birthday to your daughter.
      I'm lucky to have a bit of meadow and trees where I can let things grow.

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  12. I do love the Flower Fairies and your omelette looks lovely, but what are ramson leaves, please. Helen S.

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    1. Ramsons are wild garlic they have garlic flavoured leaves. Prolific in wetter places.

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  13. Your flowers are all so pretty. I especially love the oxlips!

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  14. The 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.

    Today the dogs are draped on the back of the sofa in pools of sunshine … I won't try that one!!

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  15. Your first harvest of many, I hope!

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  16. Cicely Mary Barker spent her final years in a village not far from me.Arilx

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  17. Sorry 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!

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  18. www.youtube.com/embed/Bk7RVw3I8eg?clip= try typing this in then hit.

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  19. Lovely Spring flowers. Thanks for sharing. My garlic is coming up but no flowers yet, except for some crocuses.

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  20. I can never remember the difference between cowslips and oxslips. Lovely spring photos to take our minds of other tbings.

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  21. Aha, Oxlip is a different thing from cowslip! I must learn to spot it

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  22. Just to confuse there is also something called a false oxlip !

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  23. Flower Fairies used to be so popular to do in cross stitch many years ago.

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