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

Their delicate / fresh / sweet fragrance profile (of the UK native species) is often referred to as being "green-floral" and it has been described as similar to green violet leaves, hyacinth and light musk.

By contrast, if you see "Bluebells", yet experience their fragrance as more akin to onions, or a barely perceptible scent - they are likely plants of the introduced Spanish Bluebell.

For me, it is the hyacinth-like notes which bring the fragrance magic of the UK native species.

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing.
But that’s absurd, the wing is on the bird.
Or so I’ve heard.

That's very intresting. Sounds like Up Helly Aa [which I've longed to visit but too far too travel now].

B said:

I would have liked to have started a spring photo thread

I wish you would - try emailing the community manager who is very helpful.

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.

I never knew that! I'll need to research it

Flower: Sunflower 
Wildflower: Bluebell or Snowdrops 
Tree/shrub: Acer

I'm not the biggest flower person. I never have flowers in my home, I've never really understood the point. I like seeing the daffodils come out in spring though. I like the colour of them and I like that it shows that the sun is on its way. It just feels more positive. I think bluebells are probably my favourite overall though. I love seeing a field of bluebells.

A very good idea!

I understand that challenge all too well, believe me! I go quite deep into the woods in the hope...

Trouble with wild garlic is finding a patch thats not at dog peeing height!

We do, it's called Beltane and covers not just blossom but is a whole celebration of summer comming in.

That would be really good 

Cinnabar_wing said:

I think we can do photos, maybe just post them without words, i don't think that should break it? Maybe put a warning on the orginal post, to say, just post pictures and text separately? A gallery of spring photos would be lovely.

I have done that.

Thank you.

B said:

I have lots of bluebell woods ones

So do I.

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.

Wild garlic, now there's a thing. Home made wild garlic pesto, wild garlic salt, etc. And the white flowers are so pretty!

I think we can do photos, maybe just post them without words, i don't think that should break it? Maybe put a warning on the orginal post, to say, just post pictures and text separately? A gallery of spring photos would be lovely. (Plus I don't think we have missed too much with this weather, apart from the best of the snowdrops.)

The British (native UK deciduous shrub) wild hedgerow rose with leaves which smell like fresh apples called the Sweet Briar (Rosa rubiginosa), also known as Eglantine.

Its leaves release a strong, fresh apple-like fragrance when crushed, or brushed.

When in bloom (early Summer in June / July) their small, single, five-petaled flowers, typically in shades of pink, though they can fade to white toward the center, have a light scent, particularly after rain.

Famously mentioned in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Act 2, Scene 1).

Oberon describes it as part of the bank where Titania sleeps, symbolizing romantic, natural beauty alongside woodbine and musk-roses.

Scented roses, they remind me of childhood holidays. Wild garlic, small star-like white flowers, but again it is the smell that I go for.