There’s a distinct lack of wild flowers around the village this spring so far. The long ditch all down the lane that had primroses has been dug out to help with drainage off the field.
Hopefully they’ll come back sometime. Other places are just so muddy or splashed heavily with water from the roads that nothing much is growing.
All I spotted last week was a tiny patch of Celandines
Anywhere else I’ve lived these would have been too common to mention as they usually grow profusely on the edge of ditches.
In my book about the folklore of plants it says they were an human eye remedy. Pliny believed swallows used celandine to improve the eyesight of the young birds and it was sometimes called swallowwort.
Here’s the Celandine fairy painting by Cecily Mary Barker from her Flower Fairy books
and her poem
Back Tomorrow – probably
Sue
