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Purple / white (heathers)

Purple / white (heathers)

More popular in front gardens from gardeners who want spring colour and ground cover are heathers, often in this purple flower / white flower combo.

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Yellow flowers: lesser celandines

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Perhaps it’s just because I’ve been paying a bit more attention, but this year I’ve been noticing several front lawns which are completely carpeted with bright yellow from flowering lesser celandines.

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Fooling about

Fooling about

Not sure exactly what’s meant to be going on here, but the monks seem to be fooling around with the great big bell. Doorknocker which was someone’s souvenir of a visit to Sherbourne, presumably.

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Dandelions about to open

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Dandelions just before the flowers started to open. Pictures all in shades of green.

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Fruit and flowers – Chinese barberry

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Fruit (or are they berries) showing on the same plant as the opening flowers which will produce a fresh years crop. Chinese barberry growing in a front garden.

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Cherry blossom, blue sky

Cherry blossom, blue sky

Spring, so it’s time for flowering cherry trees to put out their flowers. I caught these on a morning when it wasn’t raining for once.

Cherry blossom, blue sky