Just back from a quick jaunt to a local site where I have been looking for Grass of Parnassus for at least a decade – in vain – after finding a few plants there years ago. Had a quick saunter to the spot where I'd seen it then, and been looking ever since - only to find that it's back! Three plants - one flower just going over, one about to bloom, and a third bud. Amazing. Not sure if they will survive the night, as the cattle are now grazing in the area, but how about that, The Power of Nature. And if that were not enough, I heard a purring turtle dove, my first - and probably last - of the year.
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| Surely one of the sexiest of late summer flowers? It got its name from the the taste cattle grazing on Mount Parnassus had for it, thereby conferring upon it a status as an honorary grass |
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| A scarce plant in inland Norfolk, thanks to drainage and unsympathetic management. Love the groovy petals! |
