My bouquet of Lilies is still doing fine and I've been enjoying it over a week. There are even a couple of unopened buds.
My Cowslips are blooming. Did you know that its name may derive from the old English for cow dung probably because the plant was often found growing in cow dung in pastures? (This little bit of trivia is from Wikipedia). I remember picking bunches when I was a child growing up on the prairies.
Spanish Bluebells are lovely but so invasive. On a vlog post by Kirsten and Joerg they are visiting a field of Bluebells native to the UK and they mention how the introduction of the Spanish variety is crowding out the original kind. Incidentally, if you have nothing to do (ha!) you can look up K & J's vlog that goes by their names. They travel around the UK filming old houses and gardens.
Thanks for coming by. I hope your day is a lovely one.
Granny Marigold
Your flowers are all gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI remember cowslips from my grandfather's farm in Abbotsford, actually, both grandfathers' farms. Bluebells are blooming here and I picked a bunch for the house this morning. It's too bad the Spanish ones are crowding out the native English bluebells. Another blogger I read wrote a post about the differences between the two types. I've heard that English bluebells don't do well outside of the UK.
ReplyDeleteHope your day is going well.
Cowslips in cow pies. Wash hands after picking :-)
ReplyDeletePretty lilies and so is the doily they are sitting on.
ReplyDeletePretty flowers! I love bluebells!
ReplyDeleteI like that last photo.
ReplyDeleteI love that sign. I had a homemade poster of that in each class I taught. The cowslips look to me to be kin to primroses. I wonder if they are!
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact their scientific name is Primula veris.
DeleteI also used to make bunches of cowslips when I was little.
ReplyDeleteLove the poetic sign. And the flowers & bouquet are pretty.
ReplyDeleteAll the flowers in your garden and house are happy and make you and many people happy! The yellow small flowers we call "Key of heaven" = Himmelschlüssel!
ReplyDeleteO yes, our mind is a garden - - our thoghts are the seeds - -
Cowslips are such a pretty sunny yellow, and I simply love that sign :) xx
ReplyDeleteThe likies are gorgeous...I have some about that color...or did.will see what survived when they finally bloom.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty flowers and just what I needed today. (But maybe not the part about the cow dung.) Ha! I hope you have a lovely Friday.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
Nothing but flowers! How wonderful! I panic when I see the word invasive!
ReplyDeleteI love the Cowslips. Sometimes I think it is because my grandparents' street was the cowslip street ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all the flowers.
How nice day are.
I love the Cowslips. In Norway they are called "Marianøklebånd", which can be translated as "Mary's keychain". The name was given because the flower "bundle" could look like keys.
ReplyDeleteLove that sign! Pretty Flowers too!
ReplyDeleteI've always read about cowslips in books, of course, but I don't think I knew they were in the primula family, or ever guessed what they looked like. They are bright and cheery!
ReplyDeleteI've watched Kirsten and Joerg's vlog quite a few times, and they are quite fun! I love the places they visit - they have good taste :)
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