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Early spring flowers: mouse-eared chickweed

Early spring flowers: mouse-eared chickweed

Growing from the moss on the top of a stone wall, a mouse-eared chickweed with flowers which seemed just about to open.

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Early spring flowers: dawdling dandelion

Early spring flowers: dawdling dandelion

A dandelion in a front garden, probably as an interloper. On a cold and dull morning, it hadn’t opened.

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Early spring flowers: hawthorn

Early spring flowers: hawthorn

Hawthorn flowers and flower buds in a hedge which must have a favourable position. The flowers open early every year,

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Early spring flowers: bluebells

Early spring flowers: bluebells

Bluebells beginning to open a few days ago. These were in a front garden, so almost certainly Spanish bluebells.

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Tulips starting to open, Bantock

Tulips starting to open, Bantock

Tulips in the Dutch Garden at the back of Bantock House late last month, as they were just beginning to open

Tulips starting to open, Bantock
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Marsh marigolds by the pond, Bantock

Marsh marigolds by the pond, Bantock

Round the edge of the tiny pond at Bantock Park, the marsh marigolds were in full flower recently.