After my total confusion on the Saturday just gone, what with anticipating the change of time and everything, I thought I'd better start this week with everything straight in my mind...
Next there will be blossom - in the garden
Every time I go into the garden there is more to see. The apple tree is exploding into life, and today I saw the first forget-me-nots in flower. They had self-seeded in the concrete slab close to the compost bin. I nearly trod on them when I went to dump the potato and carrot peelings.
Travellers' Joy
We were out and about today, driving along roads I hadn't visited in more than five years. The verges were bright with leaves and flowers; willow and hawthorn for leaves. As for flowers; yellow celandine, gorse and primroses and the bright white of blackthorn, like a maghesium flare in the sun everywhere.
Where the hedges were still bare Travellers' Joy was draped over and under the branches. Strictly speaking it's the flowers that are called Travellors' Joy, and it was the seed heads, Old Man's Beard, that were decorating the hedges. Or clematis vitalbans if you like.
Music
How about 'Playful Pizzicato' by Benjamin Britten. Bursting with with energy and life, from his 'Simple Symphony'.
The hedgerows are looking so pretty now, with all sorts of different plants in flower. Spring is here, hopefully!
ReplyDeleteUnless it's an April fool?
DeleteSo Benjamin Britten was inspired by Arthur Wood, or was it chance that some of 'Barwick Green' was referenced?
ReplyDeleteAnother rabbit hole to lose myself in!
DeleteSo glad you were able to get out and enjoy seeing the hedgerows. I love the illustration. I didn't know that was what it was called! Certainly makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI've even seen a few wild strawberry flowers today... a few sunny days in a row has made such a difference
DeleteI didn't know that it is the flowers and not the seed heads of the wild clematis that are called Traveller's Joy. Either way it's quite lovely.
ReplyDeleteJust to add that here in B.C. clematis vitalba is considered a "emerging invasive species".
ReplyDeleteI read that too with a little sadness. But one of those pretty seed heads will produce scores of plants! It's native to Europe. I guess it must have come over with early settlers.
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