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Tag Archives: flowering plants
The Vernal Equinox
‘The vernal equinox has come too soon’ is, Him Indoors assures me, the opening line of a welcome ode written to celebrate the visit of Her Majesty The Queen to his school at some point in the 1960s. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Cambridge, London, Museums and Galleries, Natural history
Tagged Cambridge, flowering plants, London, spring, Tate Britain, vernal equinox
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The Shortest Day
As the sun was (briefly) shining just now on the shortest day of the year, I took the opportunity to nip into the garden between cake icing and (yet more) mince pie making, to record what is still flowering after … Continue reading
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