Prim-rose hybrid
In her 17th April 1905 Nature Notes entry, Edith mentions going on,
“an expedition in search of wild flowers. Went by train to Lapworth, walked across to Bushwood, from there to Baddesley Clinton and then to Knowle station and home by train. Flowers gathered – Primroses, Cowslips, Ox-slips, Cuckoo Flowers, Strawberry Anemones, Early purple vetch; White violets, Dog Violets, Wood sorrel, Moschatel, Lady’s Mantle, Blackthorn, Bullace, Corn Crowfoot and Common Lesser Sedge and Daisies.”
She also makes an interesting observation,
“I noticed that many of the Ox-slips had single stems to each separate stalks to the root and looked like small Prim-roses, only deeper yellow and with the orange-star. Can this be caused by bee-fertilisation?”
I have sketched ox-lips on the left and cowslips on the right. The possible hybrid primrose flower, (from our garden) that Edith mentions also features in this picture.
The background frame is based on an e-processed blue brolly fabric.
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