Wednesday 11 January 2023

Graves, Daffs, and a guardian Seagull.


The Daffs in The Churchyard have survived Christmas and the New Year, and I'm pleased to say that none has been picked. They are now poking their heads up everywhere.


Luckily they grow in a part of the graveyard where people tend not to walk, and they are guarded by a very well-fed, plump-n-proud Seagull. Try to pick them and he'd probably have your eye out!

25 comments:

  1. How good that you also have interesting and beautiful nature in your urban environment.

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    1. It's a little oasis in the middle of urban sprawl.

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  2. It must be hot in Brighton .Our daffs are only about 4 inches tall so far!

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  3. Our daffs aren't even showing yet...

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    1. I don't know why, but some were even flowering well before Christmas.

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  4. I don't know if there are any daffs here, but my lone rose bush has flowered continually throughout the year. It is now well over 2 metres tall, and will need a chainsaw to prune it!

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    1. We have small rose bushes in front of, and behind, our house, and they too have flowered continually. Not lots of flowers, but always a few.

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  5. I have been photographing flowers in the fields here too. You'd think it was spring. I love the flowers like daffs out in the wild. I'd rather admire them there than pick them and take them home

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    1. I'm quite surprised that no-one has stripped them bare.

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  6. We have daffodils coming through in our garden even though we are 230 miles north of you. It seems far too early but they are tough plants.

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  7. Daffodils! Already? I am so envious of you.

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    1. I first noticed them on 8th December; over a month ago. I think their internal clocks must have gone wrong!

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  8. We have another 45-60 days before the flowers start here.

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  9. Daffs in January! Phew, that is early. And I always thought that the white Snowdrops came up before the daffs.
    The snow and ice in early December saw off lots of our Summer bedding. Back to the Garden Center in Spring.

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    1. We have lots of Dwarf Daffs in our orchard in France, but they never come up this early.

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  10. The Daffs are very advanced. Mine are still submerged showing no signs of life.

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    1. If we have any sharp frosts they could all disappear. My fingers are crossed.

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  11. I had to enlarge the pic to see the seagull... but I like the idea that he's guarding the daffs. We don't have any here this early... or none that I've seen.

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    1. The Seagull was there again yesterday, but Billy chased him off. He has a thing about Seagulls!

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  12. If winter comes can spring be far behind?

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    1. That sounds to me like the prophecy of a trumpet!

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  13. I hope they all bloom at once for a massed display and of course you'll take photos.

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    1. I think it'd need a few days of warm sunshine for that, sadly none is on the horizon.

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