Snake's head fritillary

Don't you just love that name for a plant? I think these are one of my favourite flowers, so delicate yet the name and the pattern don't seem to fit with the amazing beauty. I bought these the other day and intend to plant them in the garden and hope their dainty stems survive the onslaught of cats, foxes and pigeons that seem to also enjoy my garden.

Vases

I love taking photographs of flowers as you know and am always on the look out for vases. I saw in a magazine that wine decanters make good vases so I dusted off one that we got given as a wedding present 24 years ago and decided to put some ranunculas in it, I don't know about you but we never put wine in decanters anymore. I keep seeing blog posts for painting mason jars but haven't got around to doing that yet, what do you use for vases? anything interesting?

To market, to market

I love going to the market, I don't go often but when I do I spend ages marvelling at the amazing produce. We went to Borough markets the other day, so much to look at and photograph.
So many wonderful spring flowers

Purple sprouting brocolli

Oysters freshly shucked

and finally, roast meats on offer

Signs of spring

Don't you just love all the beautiful spring colours? I can't stop buying flowers at the moment, wonderful purples and blues everywhere. I bought the tulips but the hyacinths are straight from my garden.

April

We had a lovely Easter, very quiet but everyone was at home and it was lovely just to be together before everyone heads off in different directions at the end of the week. How was your Easter?