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Taking great pleasure …

27 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, nature, wildflowers

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#FloralFriday, autumn colour, autumn flowers, British wildflowers, white wildflowers, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers

‘Who would live happily in the country
must be wisely prepared to take great pleasure in little things.’
~ Henry Beston, in Northern Farm: A chronicle of Maine, Reinhart & Co, 1948

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October pinks

06 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, nature, wildflowers

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#FloralFriday, autumn flowers, British wildflowers, lilac flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, wildflowers

‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,’ exclaims Anne one Saturday morning, in L.M. Montgomery’s classic story Anne of Green Gables.

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Mellow yellow

14 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by sconzani in flowers, nature

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autumn colour, autumn flowers, dandelion, Fox and cubs, Rudbeckia, yellow flowers

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It’s a rather grey and gloomy Friday evening here in Cardiff so I think we need some brightening up. There aren’t a lot of flowers around now that autumn is well and truly here but the dandelions and their lookalikes continue to provide little bursts of sunshine on grassy swards, the rudbeckias (at least, I think that’s what they were) have just finished a magnificent show at my local park and, at the cemetery, the Fox and cubs blooms are adding wonderful spots of orange to the autumnal landscape. Happy weekend, everyone!

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Wild about cyclamen

05 Monday Sep 2016

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, nature

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autumn colour, autumn flowers, cyclamen, Cyclamen hederifolium, Wild cyclamen

It must be autumn – even if I chose to ignore the cooler evenings, the nights drawing in and the falling leaves, I can’t ignore the gorgeous cyclamen flowering in my local park!

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The Wild cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) is not native to Britain – it hails from the Mediterranean countries, though has, over time, made its way into more northern European countries, including Britain, where garden escapees have gradually become naturalised in many of the southern counties and here in Wales.

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The word cyclamen comes originally from the Greek for circle, cyclamīnos, which is a nod to its round-shaped tuber, and the species name, hederifolium, is a combination of the Latin hedera (meaning ivy) and folium (meaning leaf), which refers to the shape and patterns on cyclamen leaves. More interesting though is its common name, sowbread, which apparently came about because pigs like to eat cyclamen, a fact reflected not only in the English common name but in several other languages as well: pain de pourceau in French, pan porcino in Italian, varkensbrood in Dutch, and ‘pigs’ manjū’ in Japanese.

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