Fritillarias Hoorah!

I am SO happy about these little guys. Like so many other flowers this year I completely forgot I acquired and planted this... useless short term memory.

This was a particularly popular plant in Victorian gardens because of its checkered pattern I believe, I like it because it looks "fairy-like"... yes that's an incredibly gay thing to say but whatever. There's some disagreement in England whether its a wild plant native to England or a garden escapee, although it isn't very abundant in the wild anymore there are still places where it thrives, such as the meadows at Magdelen College, Oxford and the Oxfordshire village of Ducklington,[3] which holds a "Fritillary Sunday" festival. Sounds very PG Wodehouse-ish!

This photo was taken on the 28th of April (also late post)

A Cacophony of Daffodils

(I'm late posting this so lets just pretend its April 21st cause that's the date on the picture)

Spring is Here! Imagine my delight when I walked down the old familiar path to our "hidden" back garden to be greeted with this abundance of daffodils! I'd forgotten how much I planted.. or maybe they just have been breeding under the earth these long months...

Anyways I was never such a big fan of daffodils, I thought they were beautiful of course but always took a back seat to the more glamorous (in my opinion) tulip... but no more! I'm sold on their elegance and simplicity. Sure some guy may not have sold his brewery for a single bulb several hundred years ago, but there's something to be said about the pure yellows and whites of this flower siting atop the most elegant garlic-like, rich green leaves in early spring, such a welcome sight after 8 months of brown dirt and bleak snow!