C. cusickii is an upright perennial forming a clump of long, linear leaves; starry blue flowers 5cm wide are carried in a tall raceme in late spring
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April Flower: Imperial Fritillary
Imperial fritillaries are the first whopper garden bulb to flower in spring. You’ve got alliums, lilies and eremurus later, but it’s the good old crown imperial which gives you drama early in the year
April Flower: Snake’s Head Fritillary
“The fritillary looks like something exceedingly choice and delicate and expensive, which ought to spring from a pan in a hothouse, rather than share the fresh grass with buttercups and cowslips” (Vita Sackville-West).
Seeing fritillaries carpet a field, every flower like a Moroccan lantern lit from inside, is such an extraordinary scene.
Chionodoxa
Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Blue’
Pretty chionodoxa are easily grown dwarf bulbous perennials with narrowly strap-shaped leaves and star-shaped flowers in early spring. Also known as Glory-of-the-snow.
Chionodoxa ‘Rosea’
Spring Sensation: Tulip
Spring Sensation: Tulip
Spring Sensation: Tulip
T is for Tulips
I first posted this in May 2013, but you can never have enough tulips in my opinion, so for those of you who may have seen this before and those of you who have arrived here for the first time – enjoy these beautiful blooms!
This has to be my favourite flower, though I do find it difficult to actually choose one. I would rather have a bunch of these cheery blooms than a bunch of roses, though I love roses too. But tulips along with daffodils, are so welcoming at the end of a long winter and valued for their range of colour and shapes.
Floral Friday Fotos
Floral Friday Fotos
Nerine sarniensis
A frost-tender bulb, originally from South Africa, these flowers were part of the Nerine Display in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley where they have over 500 plants. The most incredible thing about them (apart from the colours) is the way that some of them sparkle as if they have been dipped in that sparkling dust children use on their artwork.
(click on an image to enlarge and see the sparkle)
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Earth laughs in flowers 
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