Beatrice Groves
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Author - Texts & Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare; Destruction of Jerusalem in early modern Literature; Literary Allusion in #HarryPotter #NaturePhotography
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For anyone who fancies a gentle bit of Pottering,
@HogwartsProf
has kindly put all my
#HarryPotter
blogs in one place:
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Rose hips, blackberries and a Comma🦋
- autumn in one shot🧡🧡🧡
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This wood, always beautiful, is sensational right now!
Carpets of wild garlic, also known as ramsons, are an ancient woodland indicator 🤍💚🤍
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A Neolithic Hoar stone in the woods to mark the last day of the old year. 'Hoar' is an Old English name for ancient boundary stones from 'hár' meaning 'old, venerable.'
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Blackthorn holloways on the Suffolk reedbeds: April and now.
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A wild garlic wonderland🤍💚🤍
These breath-taking carpets of wild garlic (also known as ramsons) are an ancient woodland indicator 🌿
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Happy New Year!🤍
May your path ahead be as beautiful as this blackthorn holloway, hung with lichen & rose hips - but perhaps a little less muddy🤍
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#etymology
of the day
Tabby was a 17th century word for striped silk taffeta from the Arabic 'attābiy' - a district of Baghdad famed for its striped silks.
In the 18th century it was transferred to cats with brindled coats.
#Caturday
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A beautiful February walk. A carpet of snowdrops, my first primrose of the year and a Neolithic Hoar stone - an Old English term for ancient boundary stones from 'hár' meaning 'old, venerable'.
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Pure loveliness - the first blossom of spring 🩷🌸🤍
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The first day of February and my first blossom-sighting of spring 🌸
This is a wild hedgerow cherry plum - always the first prunus to flower🤍
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'Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not'
(Coleridge)
The deep yellow ring at the centre of a forget-me-not signals that it has nectar. When the flower has been pollinated, this fades to white so that bees save time!💙💛🤍
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A Lenten rose for the beginning of Lent💜
Today is
#AshWednesday
✝️
#ValentinesDay
🌹&
#rosewednesday
🌸
Spring-flowering hellebores are known as Lenten roses - so, a perfect flower for the day🥀
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Ancient hedgerows alight with hips and haws, sloes & (☠️) bryony berries glowing in the sun ❤️🧡💙
Some hedgerows ‘are older than almost any structure in Britain.. & perhaps a fifth of the hedgerows in the South of England have been undisturbed since Saxon times’ (Rackham)
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'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows'
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
A bank of false oxlips (a hybrid of primroses and cowslips) 💛
#SpringBeauty
#flowersonfriday
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This is the week this woodland becomes a fairy tale - a medieval millefleur tapestry come to life 🤍💚🤍
Wood anemones only spread six feet in a hundred years - this beauty has been untold years in the making.
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A beautiful, bright-eyed robin in the hedgerow ❤️
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A fairy portal of a blackthorn holloway 🤍
Bitterns booming & marsh harriers wheeling above.
#Southwold
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'As the whitening hawthorn only hears the heart beat of the earth'
(Betjeman)
My first hawthorn flowers of the year 💚🤍💚
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The most beautiful hop-laden tree I've ever seen - wreathed in bines & beautiful papery cones of the female flowers💚💚💚
Hildegard of Bingen was the first to record the importance of adding hops to beer to prevent it spoiling.
She is the (unofficial) patron😇of brewing🍻
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I love the beauty of this Saxon road, worn into the landscape through centuries of walking.
It is Hollandridge Lane in the Chilterns, the spine road of an ancient strip parish - rich with moss and beeches on-the-turn now; & bright with bluebells and young oak leaves in May.
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The loveliest, most complete fairy ring I've ever seen! These Trooping Funnel Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a central fungus.
In
#Folklore
circles are formed where fairies dance and create a portal to another world (I didn't step inside...) 🍄🧚♂️🍄
#FungiFriday
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Snowdrops 🤍💚🤍
Its botanical name - Galanthus nivalis - comes from the Greek, meaning 'milk' (gala) 'flower' (anthos) of the 'snow' (nivalis) 🤍
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Wild Snake's head fritillaries beginning to transform
@magdalenoxford
's water meadow 💜🤍💜
This iconic beauty is the county flower of
#Oxfordshire
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Hedgerows frothy & scented with elderflowers.
Its poor-quality wood led to the
#Folklore
that Judas hung himself on the elder, an inauspicious history that influenced the Elder Wand in
#HarryPotter
.
#FolkloreSunday
…
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'In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours'
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Cowslips displaying Shakespeare's 'rubies'💎
#ShakespeareSunday
💛💕💛
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The first day of October 'ladybird book' style.
I love this framing - a cascade of wild rose hips just touching the leaves of a field maple, with the wheat stubble beyond 💚❤️💚
@LBFlyawayhome
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The beautiful old road from Dunwich to Walberswick,
#Suffolk
💚🤍💚
Swathes of stitchwort, bluebells & apple blossom & alive with birdsong.
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Rain-spangled snowdrops 🤍💚🤍
Fair maids of February, pearled by the rain.
Thank you so much to
@HLaehnemann
for taking me to
@StEdmundHall
to see them!
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Frosted hips and haws in the hedgerow, looking like they've been dipped in sugar ❤️🤍❤️
Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄🎄🎄
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Fairy portals through the last of the blackthorn blossom. Bitterns booming on the marshes beyond.
#Southwold
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The enchanting beauty of harebells💜
Also known as Witches' Thimble due to the
#folklore
that witches transform themselves into hares using harebell sap💜🐰💜
One of the loveliest of wildflowers💜
#FolkloreThursday
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The lilac loveliness of wisteria💜
It is named after the American physician Caspar Wistar.
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Colour in darkness - crab apples in January rain❤️
The OED notes that while its name is assumed to come from 'crabbed' (relating to its sourness) it may be unrelated, & from Norse, as in the the Swedish dialect 'skrabba' - fruit of the wild apple-tree🍎
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Pure white holly leaves for the
#WinterSolstice
🤍
The holly rules the waning part of the year, the oak the waxing, so in tree
#folklore
the
#Solstice
marks the passing of the crown from holly to oak 🤍
#FolkloreThursday
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The Ridgeway - 5000 years old, rich in folklore & reputedly Britain's oldest road. This is the stretch between Wayland's Smithy & the Iron Age fort of Uffington castle.
One of my favourite places 🤍
#FolkloreThursday
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'In the cherry blossom's shade, there is no such thing as a stranger'
(Kobayashi Issa)
I love that Japanese has a different word for looking at the cherry blossom during the day (hanami) and at night (yozakura)🌸
Japanese cherry blossom in
#Oxford
🌸
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'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide'
(Housman, 'A Shropshire Lad')
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Frosted leaf mosaic of field maple and hazel 💛🤍🤎
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A joy - or a nod, a cheer or a hope - of snowdrops along the
#Oxford
canal 🤍
This loveliest of flowers rejoices in a number of suitably charming
#collectivenouns
🤍
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The Ridgeway, Britain's oldest road & one of my favourite places; looking up to the Iron Age fort of Uffington castle.
The Ridgeway is 5000 years old and stretches 87 miles from Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon.
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Raindrops on bluebells💜💙💜
I love the old name for them of 'cuckoo's boots' & the
#folklore
that they were rung to summon fairy gatherings💙
25-50% of the world's
#bluebells
are found in the UK
#FolkloreSunday
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Hazel catkins or lambs' tails 💛
Catkins are named for their kittenish softness from the Dutch 'katteken' (kitten)🐱
As I took this photo a hare sprung out from beneath them and bounded away! 🐰
#HeraldsOfSpring
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Primroses among the moss 🌿💛🌿
This wonderful wood has a primrose springing up at the base of every mossy trunk. There is the sound of woodpeckers above.
Primroses symbolise eternal love & are an ancient woodland indicator 💛🌸🤍
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Horse chestnut leafbuds unfold like works of art 💚
'Vernation' is the name for the arrangement of leaves within the unopened bud.
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Late-blooming wildflower, lit up by October light💛
Yellow toadflax, also known as 'butter and eggs' and popular with🐝
#SundayYellow
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The stunning blue of germander speedwell 💙💚💙
'Germander' derives from the Greek 'chamandrua' - meaning ‘oak on the ground’ - as the leaves resemble oak leaves
#BlueMonday
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Sunshine in flower form - my first celandine of the year!💛
The flower's name comes from 'chelidonia' (meaning swallow) as its flowering was thought to coincide with the swallow's arrival in the spring💛
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'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows'
(Midsummer Night's Dream)
A beautiful, rich purple violet for
#ShakespeareSunday
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My first ever sighting of the beautiful blue spikes of meadow clary!💙💜💙
This is a scarce native wildflower, but it does thrive in some sites in Oxfordshire and I was delighted to come across this patch🪻
#FlowersOnFriday
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Wisteria blooming lusciously💜
It is named after the American physician Caspar Wistar.
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Misty walking on the
#Oxford
canal. Lichened blackthorn branches, laden with the last of the sloes, overhead 🤍💚🍂
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'Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!'
(Hopkins)
May-mess - a perfect word for when verges are frothy with cow parsley & hawthorns white with May blossom🤍💚🤍
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An arch of hop flowers💚
Hops were introduced from Flanders to England in the sixteenth century. They now grow wild in our hedgerows adding immeasurably to their beauty💚
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Wood anemones unfurling in the woods 💚🤍💚
Also known as windflowers - the Greek gods of the winds were the Anemoi.
In one legend they sprung from the tears of Aphrodite as she wept for Adonis 🤍
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Lambs in raincoats! 🤍
This is a first for me 🐑☔️🐑
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'O, to be in England
Now that April's there'
(Browning)
Blossom & bluebells; young oak leaves & wild garlic🌿
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The woods are awash with blue 💜💙💜
(click for full effect!)
Our native bluebell has a deep colour & the flowers cluster on one side, giving a distinctive tilt. They fill the woods with a glorious scent.
(If you're not sure, look at the anthers - UK bluebells' are white.)
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November brambles - the final few berries and backlit leaves aflame 🖤💚🧡
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Wild Butcher's broom 💚
A native evergreen named for its traditional use.
Small, spiky gatherings were used to clean butchers' blocks & its antibacterial compounds would have made it a particularly useful tool.
This is my first time spotting its tiny flower!🌸
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Winter aconites - the delightful arrival of one of the first flowers of the year 💛
The golden flower sits on a green ruff called a pelate leaf 🌿💛🌿
#SundayYellow
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Fibonacci spiral at the heart of a ox-eye daisy🌼
Daisy comes from Old English 'dæges éage' - 'day's eye' - describing how the sun-disk at its centre is concealed in the evening & the white ray florets open to reveal it in the morning☀️
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Why is today called Maundy Thursday?
The antiphon - ‘a new commandment [mandatum novum] I give to you, that you love one another’ (John 13:34) - is sung during foot washing.
The first word of the antiphon 'Mandatum' - via the Anglo-Norman 'mandé' - became 'Maundy'💜
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My favourite narcissus - the pheasant eye🤍🧡🤍
Narcissi have an unusual flower-form known by the rather lovely name of coronate (crowned).
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Bluebells braided with stitchwort 💙🤍💙
These beautiful flowers often bloom together; the bright stitchwort - sometimes known as 'Star-of-Bethlehem' - spangling the dark blue sea💜
#MayDay
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A Lenten Rose bathed in sunshine to wish you all a very happy Laetare Sunday🌸 (aka Rose Sunday)🌸
#MotheringSunday
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'The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness'
(Hopkins, 'Spring')
Pear blossom just beginning to unfurl in
#Oxford
🤍
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Hellebores unfurling 🩷🌸🤍
In Greek mythology hellebore is used to cure madness.
#FlowerFriday
#HeraldofSpring
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Beautiful May blossoms🤍
May blossoms open with pink anthers, which turn brown within the day. So if you see hawthorn flowers spangled with jaunty pink (as in the second pic) you've caught a just-opened flower 🌸🤍🌸
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The first Lady’s Smock of the year, bespangled by rain-showers 💜🤍💜
Lady's Smock has cruciform flowers & its name may be a contraction of Our Lady's Smock 'so called from its first flowering about Lady Tide' (Forster, 1828)
#HolySaturday
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Common or yellow toadflax, also known as 'butter and eggs' & beloved of bees 💛🐝💛
#sundayyellow
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Blenheim bluebells 💙💜💙
In Elizabethan times starch from bluebell bulbs was used to stiffen ruffs and gum from the roots was used in bookbinding💜📘💜
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The magnificent 'wishing' beeches at Avebury, with their amazing root system, for
#ThickTrunkTuesday
It is clear why there is a popular belief that they are a source for Tolkien's Ents - they look ready to up and go! 💚🌳💚
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Hawthorns heavy with berries on the 5000 year-old Ridgeway❤️ 🌿❤️
Hawthorns are the commonest place-name tree - as in the familiar 'Thornton' & 'Thornbury' and the rather more unusual and fabulous 'Thornfalcon' & 'Thorngumbald'!
#folklorethursday
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Hollyhocks against the knapped flint of Blythburgh church 🩶🌸🩶
A good place to find them as the the name is a corruption of 'holy' hock; the OED notes that another old name was ‘Seynt Cutberts-cole’🌸
#Suffolk
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It's a bit wet out so here's a cheery autumnal squirrel from a 1664 Psalter.
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'The primrose path of dalliance' (Shakespeare)
This has been the loveliest primrose spring I have known
#FlowersOfTwitter
💛🤍💛
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The white & coral beauty of flowering quince 🩷🤍🩷
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The final few flowers of the purple-blue meadow crane's-bill 💜💙💜
This is a wild geranium - which is a Greek version of the same name ('geranos' means 'crane')💙
The spiked seed pods (right) give 'crane's-bill' its name
#BlueMonday
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