Archangels

Its archangel season again, with one of my favoured yellow flowers coming into season at the bottom of the back garden. Or being pedantic, the top, as our back garden slopes up from the house.

At least they are doing alright, even if the celandines have been grazed by - I assume - the pigeons and the Spanish bluebells have been flattened by the foxes.

Daffodils have not been great, but more of them flowered than last year. Tulips on the way. The violets and primroses are doing OK. The snake head fritillaries are coming into flower. Cuckoo pints on the way, although I don't suppose many of them will make it into flower - with lots of slug and/or snail trails to be seen on the brick compost heap at the very back.

A possible bonus is that there are two tree like shoots, maybe an inch high now, showing where I planted the nuts noticed at reference 3. Maybe we will soon have some Ohio buckeyes.

PS: the other favoured yellow flower, the dandelion, is more or less extinct in our garden, but they have appeared in and around Kiln Lane and down Longmead Road.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/easter-flowers.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_galeobdolon. The story according to Wikipedia. Perhaps I shall start calling them yellow weasel-snouts, or perhaps weasel-snouts for short. A usage which I find on checking is allowed, without explanation, by OED.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/12/nuts.html.