What amazing weather we've being having. When last do you remember long sunny days for almost the whole of April?
The blossom as been exceptional with our gardens exploding with vernal foliage. Should be another "good year for the roses".
However,
" Sweet April showers, do spring May flowers"
In 1557 Thomas Tusser had published a similar proverb in, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry
Also in 1557 / 1560 this was anonymously published,
"When Aprell sylver showers so sweet,
Can make May flowers sprynge"
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| Cate's Spring Garden Flowers in Crosby - on - Eden |
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| Jude's Auricula Theatre in Wetheral |
Auriculas originated
from a natural cross between
Primula auricula
and
Primula hirsuta
where
they grow together in the Alps.
The resulting hybrid,
Primula pubescens,has been bred for
over 400 years to produce the types and quality
that we recognise today.
Show
Auriculas have
3 or 4 balanced concentric circles. The inner one is the tube, which
should be yellow or golden and like all Florists (originally meaning
a grower of plants to set standards, rather than the modern meaning)
have no pin (the stigma) visible. Next comes a circle of farina,
where tiny hairs are set on the petals so dense that it is like a
white paste.
