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Must be climate change or something. It's a pity they can't be used to generate electricity.
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Buttercups
Must be climate change or something. It's a pity they can't be used to generate electricity.
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Yes, it's a good year for them - the fields are covered here. You don't want to get too many in the lawn or flowerbeds, though, as they are very hard to shift. I think the long cool spring (doubtless caused by global warming) has delayed them flowering.
We've been struck this Spring by the luxurious blossom on the hawthorns.
We've had lots of cowslips in the little corner of our lawn that we refer to satirically as The Meadow. The rose on our front wall is putting up a European Champion performance. Fewer aquilegia than we usually get though.
Here in Western France it is the Daisy that are everywhere in the lawns. The day after one has cut the lawn they have regrown and in new flowers are there as if to say, "Nah, Nah. We're here again".
The Roses, this year, are exceptional. All types, ramblers, floribunda and climbers.
Sam - in the lawn I just treat them with a selective weedkiller. I'm not sure why because it's full of moss anyway.
dearieme - on part of our walk yesterday, the scent of hawthorn blossom was unusually strong. It's not one of our favourite flower scents though, to our noses there is a hint of farmyard in it.
DAD - there were daisies among the buttercups, but the buttercups swamped them. We have daisies and buttercups in our lawn, but the moss seems to restrict their growth.
Definitely a good year for them; the water-meadows here in Oxfordshire are brilliant yellow, making up for (and possibly because of) the mud which, over the past few weeks, turned every walk into a squelchy assault course of tussock-jumping and branch-balancing.
We met similar waterlogged conditions on a foray into your area last month so I suppose the same thing applies there; I wish I could go back and see it now but, failing that, we are taking notes on your Derbyshire posts to help us choose walks for our next trip - thank you for the inspiration!
Macheath - we've found that even boggy areas are dry now, although there will be exceptions such as high moorlands which can remain almost permanently boggy in some spots. If you don't have them already, your best bet for Derbyshire exploration is a few walking books which always give information about the area walked.
We stick to the White Peak these days, mainly to avoid a longer car journey into the Dark Peak before we even put our boots on. Tissington Trail, High Peak Trail and Monsal Trail are all good starting points for exploration.
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