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Crocuses in the rain
Mild weather is all very well, but sometimes I would rather have cold and DRY! I’m sure we are all fed up with the never-ending rain. I suppose we have to consider ourselves lucky that we haven’t had a storm for some while now – it must be at least a week…
Crocuses don’t like rain. They remain closed up and let the raindrops slide down their slim, pointed flowers:
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| “Ruby Giant” |
It’s hard for me to get my camera to do justice to this one’s true colour. It’s not blue. It’s not purple. In some light conditions it looks almost red:
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| “Ruby Giant” |
This one, spattered with tiny pearldrops of rain, was described simply as “Yellow”, but it has dark mauve stripes on the outside of its flowers, just like “Gypsy Girl”.
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| “Yellow” |
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| “Prins Claus” |
The flowers in the photos above are in some small pots. Seen from a distance today, they look distinctly unimpressive, but yesterday afternoon when the sun was out the blooms were fully open and much more colourful.
I think the pot at left rear (without any flowers open at present) contains “Cream Beauty”, but I’m not certain of that. Should have labelled them, I suppose!
The Crocuses around the bases of the trees have taken a battering from the rain, and today they are a really sorry sight. Most of the “Tommasinianus” (light mauve) ones have finished now, but this patch of “Ruby Giant” would have been good for a few more days if the weather had been better:
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| “Ruby Giant” |
Out at the front of the house, the circular bed round the Crab Apple tree looks good now. The Irises are past their best, but the Daffodils (mostly Tete a Tete) are in fine form:
Source: http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2014/03/crocuses-in-rain.html
