March 25th and Spring Flowers

Here's another cheerful post to avoid the new C word!

Today is Lady Day, the Christian festival celebrating the Annunciation of Mary and the Immaculate Conception and  today is also my sister's birthday.....Happy Birthday L.
 Lady Day was the day when servants and farm workers made an agreement with their employers that they wouldn't change their jobs in the next year.

 I found just one piece of weather lore

An East wind on Lady Day

Will keep on 'til the end of May 

 The primroses are still going strong all the way down my meadow, they've spread really well since we stopped cutting all the grass. In the first year here I bought some pots of cowslips but only one seems to have survived although I have got a couple of clumps of  what we always called Five Fingers but are really Oxslips.

Primroses

Oxlip

Cowslip

Also growing are are few small clumps of Wild Garlic or Ramsons. These were also planted in our first year when BiL brought a bucket full dug from the woodland where he hauls out fallen trees.

Wild garlic/Ramsons

 They've taken a long time to establish because it's probably a bit too dry for them here but when I cut some to add a bit of flavour to an omelette on Monday I spotted some tiny leaves away from the main bits - so hopefully they will spread now they've got going.

2 Egg omelette, with chopped ramson leaves on a slice of home made bread - delicious

To celebrate the spring sunshine over the last few days, here's  another Flower Fairy Illustration from Cicely Mary Barker.

Enjoy the sun again - if you have it today  - we might get snow on Saturday Brrrr.

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