This delicate little flower, Star of Bethlehem, or Ornithogalum umbellatum, is great for bees and other pollinators.
Plant Focus: Star of Bethlehem
Weather Forecast: Bright intervals and a few showers today. Breezy.
Feeling quite warm despite the fresh southerly winds. Maximum temperature 19 °C.
Weather Forecast: Extensive haar for Orkney
Fresh southeasterly winds will make it feel cool under the cloud but quite pleasant in the sunshine. Maximum temperature 15 °C.
Plant focus: Bluebell
As the year moves on and into May, bluebells come into their full magnificence.
Weather Forecast: Dry with sunny spells developing
Rather cloudy start but it will be a dry day with sunny spells developing through the morning.
Plant Focus: Butterbur
What to look for when out walking.
#DayOfReflection ‘Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep’
“Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.”
Lichen
“But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.” Matt Haig
A Hare
“”Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought”
Poetry Corner: “Spring”
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –”
