Spring Flowers on 1st March, 2016

Narcissus 'Tete-a-Tete' 
Photo © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

Primula vulgaris
Photo © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

'Rana temporaria' in Godot's

February / March 2016

Photos © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

 

Fuchsia 'Mrs. Popple'

Still flowering on the 10th December since 22nd June this year.

(Normally flowering until the middle of October)

Fuchsia 'Mrs. Popple in Hortus Godotii
[Photo: Hans van den Bos]

The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in 1703 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)

In the garden by Jan Eijkelboom

In the garden 1 In the garden I look up from my book and see the confidence of bees entering the flower of a Himalayan balsam, now and then bumping into seed-cases that, silently exploding, spread their well-aimed black seed. Insecure I start reading again. 2 I did plant a little tree when I turned sixty, hoping that it would get enough light and some air between the trees that were already there in a time before I existed. In its shadow children will not know who, with spade, manure and water briefly worked here with the soil.

Jan Eijkelboom 1926 - 2008 [photographer unknown]

Original title: In de tuin From: 'De wimpers van de dageraad' - Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam - 1987. Translation: Hans van den Bos