Flowers & Rosemary

The Rosemary Tree, Goudge Readalong April 2024

Daffodils, blue Hyacinths and flowering trees near our stone wall at Havenwood this week.

“Below (Michael) the old unpruned apple trees were still without blossom, but here and there a plum tree or a cherry tree was a froth of white. In the rough grass under the trees were drifts of wild daffodils, and primroses and white violets were growing under the hedge by the gate. Below the orchard were the tall chimneys and tiled roof of the Wheatsheaf, and to the right the village street with its whitewashed cob cottages wound down the hill to the river and the church. All the cottage gardens had their daffodils and early polyanthus and in the water meadows the kingcups were a sheet of gold. The smoke from the cottage chimneys rose gently, wreathed itself into strange shapes and then was lost in the grey of the sky.”

Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree

April flowers…

All of the beautiful natural passages in our April Goudge read, The Rosemary Tree, beg for a pictorial guide to British flowers. So here is a little one for you, with some photos from my own garden in Pennsylvania, as well as a few stock photos of other varieties that Goudge mentions that are not blooming here - yet ;)

Marsh Marigolds (aka Kingcups) in our bog garden this morning.

Kingcups