Spring is springing - what is your favourite flower and your favourite wild flower. Why?

I love the simplicity of daisies [marguerites] also lawn daisies. Also, deep gold marigolds, for their cheerfulness. Lastly, fuchsias of all kinds - especially because they attract the huge humming-bee hawk-moth.

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  • Bluebells. They change the appearance of the land around the trees in such a lavish fashion that Ì just have to “stand and stare”. I stare from a distance, close up and from different angles, willing myself to absorb their brilliance.

    I’m fortunate that there are lots of different locations with stunning bluebell displays near me. I have loads of photographs but they don’t capture the magnificence of the moment in the way that looking intently can.

  • I think theres something about bluebell woods that give us a sort of instinctive magical reaction, I don't know if the smell or what, but they totally transform the atmosphere of a wood.

  • theres something about bluebell woods that give us a sort of instinctive magical reaction

    That’s precisely it and it is something beyond description or replication in photography or art. They have an ethereal quality that draws one in. I’m hoping for some fine weather in the upcoming bluebell season in which to find a nice spot to sit and stare. 

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