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Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla)


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The Pasqueflower, being very fussy about the level of grazing, is now quite rare in the UK and restricted to a handful of chalk and limestone grassland locations. The annual display on Therfield Heath near Royston is probably the most extensive and takes place for a couple of weeks in April.

 

Portra 400 and 90 Macro Elmar-M

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The Pasqueflower, being very fussy about the level of grazing, is now quite rare in the UK and restricted to a handful of chalk and limestone grassland locations. The annual display on Therfield Heath near Royston is probably the most extensive and takes place for a couple of weeks in April.

 

Portra 400 and 90 Macro Elmar-M

34192730851_385a14834d_b.jpg

 

 

34192735031_1df5488d05_b.jpg

 

 

34196857821_cf919277eb_b.jpg

 

 

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A welcomed recess from the chaotic clamor ringing all too often today, your "Pasqueflower " echoes the poetic spirit of John Keats's lines from "Ode to a Nightingale":

 

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,

Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,

But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet

Wherewith the seasonable month endows

The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree while;

White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;

And mid-May's eldest child,

The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,

The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

 

"Pasqueflower" let's us see the rare flowers at our feet. Thanks – Roger

 

 

 

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a series is always associated with a few comparisons - i would have renounced, because the first photo has for me beauty enough

 

 

If I'm understanding your point correctly, I agree that the third photo is certainly a bit redundant but I wanted to include the second just to give some context and show the numbers of these flowers at this location.

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If I'm understanding your point correctly, I agree that the third photo is certainly a bit redundant but I wanted to include the second just to give some context and show the numbers of these flowers at this location.

 

not quite, but i disregarded this connection in the second part of your reply

 

so it is undecided  ;) :)

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