A pretty quiet day today - with most of my time taken up by hospital appointments, I had to be content with a wander around the back lanes of my local neighbourhood.
The two special hellebores,
Lenten-rose (
Helleborus orientalis) &
Corsican Hellebore (
Helleborus argutifolius) are still looking good, and I was able to have another look at the clump of naturalised
Grape-hyacinths (
Muscari neglectum) - with the contrast between almost blackish-blue fertile flowers & much paler sterile ones, they really are very different from the
M. armeniacum plants that seem to be absolutely everywhere at the moment
Not a lot else, though;
Shining Cranesbill (
Geranium lucidum), lots of
Three-cornered Leek (
Allium triquetrum) &
Hybrid Bluebell (
Hyacinthoides x massartiana) coming into flower and a
Chinese Quince (
Chaenomeles speciosa) bush, the result presumably of garden rubbish being thrown out not very carefully!
I did manage to add a couple to the list, though, by putting a name to two of the mysteries that'd been cluttering up my Unidentifieds folder! I'm really going to have to track down a decent book to help me identify conifers, and I'm also on the look-out for some reference material covering Forsythia species. Suggestions gratefully appreciated
