Ilkeston - Kirk Hallam Daffodils
w/e 15 April 2018
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
Well until Saturday, it was a grey week with overcast skies,
plenty of rain and drizzle and even mist verging on fog on a
couple of days. There was a sign of brightness in the garden
but even that was an unwelcome visitor - dandelions are flowering!
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It's been so miserable though that even the daffodil buds in
the garden were reluctant to open. Maybe if we went further south
in the country it would be better.
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And we didn't have to go that far south, just to Kirk Hallam
in fact where I found this row of daffodils among the gravestones
in the churchyard.
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Just up the road from Kirk Hallam Church on the green verge near
Vine Farm Close, the daffodils were certainly far more advanced
than those in our garden.
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At Ladywood School also a little further on there are at least
two varieties visible from the road on the bank by the footpath
that leads through to Oliver Road.
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These, also at the school, appear to be all the same variety.
I think I need to get a different, that is earlier flowering,
variety for our garden.
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Even further on past the Cat and Fiddle pub, the slip road off
Ladywood Road is flanked by a bank full of flowers.
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From the same place but looking in the opposite direction towards
Derby right on the edge of Kirk Hallam, the contrast between
the pure yellow trumpets of one variety and the yellow and white
of another is clear to see.
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But the pièce de résistance in Kirk Hallam has
to be the central reservation on Depedale Avenue. The daffodils
in the bed above the intersection with Windermere Avenue are
still coming into flower and will be brightening the area for
quite a while yet.
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Those at the bottom of the hill though between Windermere Avenue
and St Norbert Drive look so good they deserve a second picture
as they look splendid right now. A collection like this is probably
what William Wordsworth would describe as a host.
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