Spring can be Blue

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Wikipedia tells me these plants are native to the Eastern Mediterranean, North-East Iran, and Turkmenistan. In Victorian times a blue hyacinth apparently indicated sincerity. (The RHS provides cultivation notes.)

In a Cratfield garden

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The garden is slowly starting to wake up. The bergenias will have changed colour by June, and the daffodils and tulips will be going to sleep again – a continuous cycle of waking and sleeping, living and dying.