May Flowers 2016

We arrived back in the country this year on the afternoon of 30th April. It's now 31st May and I wanted to get this post done today before the marvellous month of May ends. I do so love the word 'May' - with a capital letter. It makes me think of blue skies and light air and floatiness.

I had thought often about how we were missing winter this year, apart from our week in Japan in December. What I hadn't thought about what how lovely it would be to return to the UK for May and see it all at once in its Spring glory. I try to keep a flower diary where I record my first sightings of each flower each year. It has made me much more aware of flowers and I have learnt the names of some more and am pleased when I do it. It does however stress me sometimes to be always looking for the new flowers and I sometimes forget to appreciate them at their peak. This year I have been able to enjoy May in its fullness. I am sure my flower diary is packed away in some box or other so I can't write in their about this month. Instead I shall record here the Spring life that I can remember. 

- Gorgeous heavy blossom. I love it when the trees look laden. 

- Oil seed rape, or as I like to think of it, 'fields of sunshine'. 

- Roses

- Forget-me-nots

- Lilac

- Gorse

- Wild flowers that I don't know the names of. 

- Geraniums

- Pansies (not sure if that's the proper plural!?)

- Wisteria 

- Clematis

- Lupins 

- Tulips

- Rhododendrons 

- Iris

- Forsythia 

- Horse chestnut pink and white blossom
- Daisies
- Dandelions
- Valerian - Mum identified this one for me.