The Rush to Flower: September 14, 2019

After a week of cold winds and low temperature (a return to Winter really), Spring is back with us today, and the warm weather is hastening plants into bud, leaf and flower. Without further ado, here are this week’s six. One: Iris hollandia (above) is relishing the warm days and its cerulean petals echo the…

Basking

It seems some folk will do anything to get exposure to the sun, although I wonder if it really was warmer four metres up a tree than on the ground. Is that a look of immense satisfaction? An ‘I’m the king of the castle’ moment? Or perhaps, ‘It isn’t really all that comfortable up up…