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Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape – into our Flower-filled Cornish Lanes

Our Cornish hedges are filled with colour at the moment, pinks, whites and blues abound with golds and soft yellows and the lime greens of new leaf growth. As we drive by, these all become beautiful blurs of mixed hues so I walked around the block, as it were, to capture the colours for you. I wish I could also bring you the quietness, the birdsong, the smells and the peace that came with taking all these photos for you. Click on any photo for more detail.

Bluebells with a Gren Veined White butterfly

Primroses

Pennywort with flowers

Pink Valerian

Pink Valerian close-up

Hedge bottom

Glorious golden Gorse or Furze

Dandelion

Cow Parsley

Celandine

Three Cornered Leeks – their stems are triangular and they are edible.

Blue and gold

Dog Violets, also edible

English Pink and Bluebells

Pink Campion

Celandines

Foxgloves in bud

Fiddlehead ferns

White dead nettle, edible

Bright green new growth of Crocosmia

Bluebells and Three Cornered Leeks

Delicate dandelion seedhead

Pink Clover

Is this a Lesser Stitchwort?

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 21, 2013 in butterflies, Cornwall, environment, flowers, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: bluebells, celandines, dandelions, dog violets, edible flowers, primroses, three cornered leek, valerian, wild flowers

Bluebells, Fern and Sculpture

07 May

1 Spring has sprung all of a sudden! In the days that I was away, the bluebells down the lanes are casting their beautiful blue haze and flowers in neighbours’ gardens are glowing. I wish I could send you the scent of the wallflowers.

Bluebells down the lane

Bluebells and primroses

Tulips and Forget-me-nots

Wallflowers

2 Ferns in the hedgerows are unfurling. I just love the furriness and the curliness of young ferns.

Unfurling fern

3 Everyone is enjoying the Spring sunshine, especially this old fellow in his cloth cap on the bench outside the garden centre.

Enjoying the sunshine – Sculpture by Richard Austin

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 7, 2013 in environment, flowers, garden, nature, photography, Postaday2013, sculpture, senses

Tags: bluebells, primroses, Richard Austin, sculptor, Spring Flowers, wallflowers

Polyphotos, Demolition and Planting Primroses

12 Mar

1 Anyone remember Polyphotos? Forty eight photos were taken in quick succession and printed on one sheet. It was hoped one would be good enough to print. I guess I’m about one year old in these.

Polyphotos

2 Some of today’s things may not be considered intrinsically beautiful but the effect they’ve had certainly is! The light in the front garden now is wonderful.

: Front Garden Wall

: Wall down

: Almost gone

3 I rescued lots of little primrose plants from the front garden and planted them in the Cornish wall at the back.

Daffodils, Silk Pillows and Piano Lesson

08 Mar

1 There are daffodils and /or primroses in every hedgerow, by the side of the roads, in many fields and gardens and in my window boxes.What a beautiful yellow time of year this is!

Miniature Daffodils in our Window Box

2 After sleeping on silk pillows at KJ’s last week and my curls staying curly and a bit less wild, I decided to invest in some and they arrived today.

3 My piano lesson went well. My teacher G is one of the most encouraging and patient people I know.