Flower Diary

There is a post to be done about the blog versus diary, but I'm thinking this one might be just of the flower diary.

Last year, as I noticed Spring starting to come in I decided to keep a flower diary.  It was partly so I could learn when flowers flower - ie what time of year.  And also just to help me learn flower names.  I had made a start on learning names the previous year but this started to really help me. The idea was that I would write down the date, location and name each time I spotted a flower for the first time that year.  It wasn't a perfect system but I hope as years go on it will build a picture.

Have just done a little update on April 2010 and I do enjoy it.  I have been been taking quite a few photos of flowers and blossom this year.  It makes me question whether the flower diary would work better on the blog as I could relate the names to the images.  But if I started recording them on the blog, would the book version fizzle out?  And I do like the thought that it would build within each month as the years go on, that would be harder to see on the blog right?  Anyway, maybe I will post some pics here from the last couple of months.  Oh, and the other reason for not committing to the flower blog diary is because I might be to lazy to put in the effort to keep it up!

 26th March - flower outside house.  8th April - Camelia - Malvern Hills

 17th April - first baby birds - goslings on the Isis.  20th April - first cut grass - outside school.

 21st April - whitish blossom main road near river.  25th April - pink blossom outside house.

 27th April - cute goslings.

27th April - Mum so kindly made me a pot of forget-me-nots - my favourites.  1st May - blossom

3rd May - a wildish stretch of forget-me-nots.  Flowers? by canal.

3rd May - more blossom and oil seed rape.

 If you're able to educate me on what any of these plants are do please leave a comment - I'd love to learn.