It’s spring flower time. Photos taken over the last fortnight.
The blackthorn was the first to blossom.
The daffodils have been in flower for a couple of weeks now.
and the celandine
This monumental stack of blue flower isn’t ceanothus but rosemary.
The shade beneath the hedges is full of violets
and the meadow is an ocean of deep blue muscari
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Oh. . .sigh. Lovely. We’re only at the stage where a few daffodils are starting to poke up, but nothing blooming yet, except a few crocuses. And it’s going down to 17 F tonight.
Oh, that’s cold! I’ve just worked it out -8°C! That is not fair! I hope it’s just a blip.
Yes, I think so. A couple of cold nights, but then it will warm up again. 🙂
I hope so!
Wow that rosemary is something!
Isn’t it? It’s outside the neighbour’s at the top of the hill, south-facing. It grows along a lot of the roadsides here.
Amazing! I’m having rosemary envy 😉
Me too. All our plants are still in pots poor things.
Jane these are stunning. What a joy to see Spring stepping up to say hello. Is that your home is the background of the last one? It looks idyllic 🙂
The blossom will be over soon. The first petals are already down. Yes the house does look idyllic. Fooled us too. It’s perfect in summer but bringing up to C19th standards of modernity isn’t going to be possible, like wiring a mud hut for electricity. Whitewash on the walls inside, terracotta tiles placed directly on the earth and no insulation between us and the hayloft/tobacco-drying loft/bats and dormice. Nice flowers though and deer and hares wander around for local colour 🙂
Well thank the heavens for the deer, flowers and hares!!! Sending you a bicycle messenger with a telegram filled with courage for the rest 🙏🙏 Long Live France and its desire to reign glorious in its C19th conditions regardless of how time and the rest of the world have slightly moved on 🙃
Once we get to this time of year it’s fine, only a few degrees colder inside than out 🙂 We have made a disconcerting discovery though, that when it rains, because the tiles are laid directly on the ground without anything techy like concrete or even sand foundations, we get water seeping up through the terracotta in places. The locals say it’s des veines d’eau. There are dozens of little water courses running down the fields and you can’t do anything about them. Building with foundations would be a start. Failing that we might dig a moat…
Beautiful!❤️
You have some nice spring beauty here.
It’s all shooting up so fast now.
Happy spring! Love to see the flowers blooming! 🌷
Happy spring to you too 🙂