Thursday, 21 January 2016
This quirky little church looks as if it's wearing a jaunty nightcap, doesn't it? The river Lambourn looked shivery cold - two herons flew overhead - and in the beech woods of Welford Park, literally millions of snowdrops and quite a lot of aconites are just peeping through, though it will be a couple of weeks yet before they'll look like snowdrifts under the trees.
Did you know that snowdrops multiply to a Fibonacci sequence? 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 ... so by year 5, the first snowdrop's offspring have already started reproducing themselves ... and on and on it goes ... I find that strangely pleasing. It's definitely the most interesting thing I have learned this week.
Hard to imagine that in early summer the Park is home to the Bake-Off tent. (You can still see the big patch on the lawn.) And the garden by then will be a mass of peonies and roses.
Maybe your squirrels do, Sue!
ReplyDeleteI do love flower talk at this stage of winter. When it's -10C for days on end the only thing to do is head to the local garden centre for a bit of respite.
ReplyDeleteThere has been talk of snowdrop honey, it has been so warm here, Darlene.
ReplyDeleteI had big hopes for snowdrops under silver birches and planted lots in the green but nothing has shown yet.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're only on Fibonacci year 1 or 2, Lucille. Silver brirches and snowdrops sound lovely.
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