April sunshine

Springtime is here!

2008

We have put the album selected from the pictures of 2008 on Hortus Carmeli.

(When entering the garden, go to the bottom of the page. By clicking on the thumbnails in the albums, you have the images enlarged, and following the little hand in the upper right corner you can visit them one by one.)

Bouquet, April 25, 2008

The colors of the photo begin to become similar to those of the bouquet. Nevertheless, I take it amiss of Nikon that it fails this much at the sight of violet and purple.

The flowers from left to right: stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), tulips, daffodils, bleeding heart or Venus’s car (Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba') two sports of spurge (below Euphorbia polychroma, above Euphorbia palustris), Bergenia, Siberian Bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla), more tulips and spurge.

The first spring bouquet

In the reality it is not the first, but the second one. I made the first one for my friend Mari on Friday, but of that one no picture was made of that one.

However, I’m very happy with it. I made it with some of my greatest favorites. If you push the mouse above the flowers, you can read the name of each. I have also linked their names to the respective entries in Wikipedia.

Narcissus Rip van Winkle

One of the great successes of this spring.

I bought it in last autumn, and on the basis of the picture on its package I hoped it would be beautiful, but I was not quite sure.

Nevertheless, it is wonderful in live. It sprouted very early, so it bloomed at one time with the pulmonarias. It has an extremely rare, and especially nice greenish yellow flower.

By now it has already shed its blossoms. And, according to my expectations, as it is low, therefore it is not too conspicuous as its stem withers.