Pot Pourri

[Placido]

This vid is an absolute gem, Willpar !! Opening with the wild violets (what I wouldn't give ).
Those multi-bloom daffs with the elongated trumpets are quite a find - very unusual.
At 4.37 you have found a Centaurea (not a Scabious but easy to get confused). This is a Greater Knapweed which is quite a bit different from the Common Knapweed which is the one I have and looks like being a bumper example this season.
Like the white-flowered nettle 'cos I always keep some, for the butterflies.
And finish off with a flourish !! The duck family sequence, and, oh wow, the clematis in the hedgerow

[Willpar]

Thank you Placi. I thought the very thin daffs were unusual had to video the through an iron gate. But the white nettle type plant got me going as I never had a clue what it was. But was intrigued to see that the flowers were very hairy. The climber in the hedge I never knew what it was, but it has reached the top already. Just done the lower ones. I thought the violet was unusual has I had never seen them that colour. They were outside a garden.
Oh and I did like the sound in the bluebell wood.

[Jacksparrow]

A good selection of Butterflies.

[Willpar]

Thank you jacksparrow. Just wish they would stay still a bit longer. But am grateful for what I can get.

[Willpar]

A blooming April.

[Placido]

Echiums on the march !! Mauve (?) flowers, and a Japanese temple in the background .
Hooray, the return of the pot marigold
At 3.40, the weigela: is that in a garden, Willpar ? or growing wild.
That's a very young blackie fledgling to be out on its own.
Orchids doing very nicely this year - great to see that.
Echiums all over, and I've never seen one in my life !!
Is that apple blossom - it's wonderful.
Oh wow - a host of ransoms. (Back in the day when I didn't know any better, I dug one up from the wild and tried unsuccessfully to grow it. )

[Willpar]

Thank you Placi. Yes the weigela was hanging over a garden wall . Don't think the pot marigold have ever stopped flowering. Either an apple or a cherry flower Over the playing fields. Were several of the early purple orchids in flower, so I could take my pick. Had to look up ransoms as I thought they were wild garlic. The host of echiums are in the garden I got my plant from. All in all quite a blooming April.

[Placido]

Ahem ..... ransoms are wild garlic ! Bit of a waste of time actually 'cos you can hardly taste anything remotely resembling garlic, but I s'pose that's where the cultivated stuff originally came from

I wondered whether that was where you had your echium from

[Jacksparrow]

I enjoyed that especially the baby Blackbird and the Demoiselle . I got a crick in the neck looking up at the echiums though

[Willpar]

Hi Placi, the ransoms were down in the woods below me.

Thank you jacksparrow, I thought you would like the Demoiselle, it flew right past me and settled on the hedge. I just loved that emerald colour. Cant say I have seen one before. The young blackbird was a great catch. My first of the season.