more salad

you would need a lot of this to make lunch.

lords and ladies

this very suggestive plant is about to flower; I cannot imagine why it is called lords and ladies; it ought to be a dog something although I am not sure what :- (a printer's joke) I think the heart shaped leaves are very feminine as well. Roll on Friday.

stitchwort

the white flower is greater stitchwort, it tends to come out in clumps, usually it appears a bit later than the primroses and celandines surrounding it, five deeply divided petals and a four angled stem. Within a week or two it will cover the hedgerows locally.

corn salad

this is a very pretty, but tiny little blue flower, it is hardly noticeable. I don't know whether or not anyone eats its leaves these days. You can get some idea of the size of the flowers from the dandelion seed at bottom left

Deirdre

Tomorrow we say farewell to our friend Deirdre for the last time. She was a popular woman with a mordant wit and a generous heart. She spent her life looking after others and in the end was given so little time for herself; Spring came and she died. We will all miss her very much.

hiding from the mower

these daisies survive by keeping their collective heads down