Sun and colours
A quick skive from gardening – just too hot. This is March at a latitude of 55 degrees north, in the hills and it’s not supposed to be as hot as June/July at the moment, but it is. Not a passing sun with a damp chilly breeze so jumpers have to be hand, oh, no. It’s truly as consistently hot as June usually is here. Not a complaint, just a concerned consumer and observer. Many plants are being ‘brought on’ ahead of time by the heat and the warm earth. When the weather breaks there could easily be frosts to come. New and delicate plants don’t usually get put in the ground for another 2-3 weeks or so around here.
The light is blinding and colours of the spring and late winter flowers fantastic. In handling the images, the first thing that strikes me is how the hirsute nature of bits of the plants becomes more self-evident. All very necessary but makes watching small insects navigating their way v amusing.
If you click on one of these images it will open up a gallery containing further hairy and not so hairy specimens.
Related articles
- Fun in the garden (schmidleysscribblins.wordpress.com)
- A Garden in Spite of Itself, Part 2: All the Pretty Flowers (forkinmyeye.com)
- The Colours of Spring (philhirstgardens.wordpress.com)
