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Finally during Easter there were some natural flowers other than Coltsfoot flowering, even if it still is very cold for the time of year. Nights go below zero. Also in our cottage garden some development had started to happen.
Here is first my wild flower section
The above mentioned Coltsfoot. Like little suns in the dried grass.
Blue woodanenemies. As the name suggests they grow in the woods and require dappled light to florish. They always come out before the leaves on the trees. Later on we'll have the white ones too.
New fresh leaves of some seaside plant. Don't quite know which one but the leaves are pretty.
Flowering Alder tree
Then we have the cultivated section:
Many crocuses had alreade come up. They don't so much mind the cold.
In front is a lot of tulip leaves but no flowers yet. There are different varieties in that bed flowering from May to mid June.
The snow drops are usually the first to come and the ones we have are not planted there but just appeared one year and have multiplied on their own since then. Must have been seeded by some bird.
Close up of Snowdrop
Also Daffodil leaves are showing up in the spring border but not yet flowering so I bought a pot of miny daffs to brigten up the day. In the autumn I'll plant the bulbs in the ground but as of yet they are still flowering very well due to the chilly wheather.
Close up on daffodil
In the same pot also grows some Pearl Hyacinths (no idea if that is the correct name)
This is how they look like before the flowers open. We have many of these too in the cottage but they also come up a bit later on free land allthogh the leaves are well visible.
The first Scilla were already in flower but not quite opened up yet so I did not take a picture of them.
I cannot resist putting in one more picture of my Easter cactus. It's still flowering nicely.
Close up of cactus flower.
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