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Spring Has SprungWell, we are a little behind up here in Ottawa, but spring has officially arrived. How can I tell? Well, early flowers are out. We have some daffodils in our yard, but what’s really got me going is that the tulips are opening by Dow’s lake. I noted their loveliness while driving to work this morning, but didn’t have the camera with me. I got as far as the experimental farm when a striking magnolia in full bloom had me turning around to get the digital camera from home. You may remember last year’s tulip portraits; I am planning, in fact, to repeat those this year, but consider this a sneak preview on the tulip front, with a side dish of magnolia.
All this within a kilometre of our house. One more reason to be happy to be living where we are. ETA: I emailed the farm people to ask what variety of Magnolia this is. The grounds maintenance supervisor told me it is: Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ (Magnolia Kobus var. Loebnori ‘Leonard Messel’). Not all the tulips had opened yet. It seemed to vary by variety (hmm) so there were tracts with buds, I love the closed tulip buds. Many of these were tinged with red so I think they’ll be beautiful when they open out.
This magnolia tree was in full blossom. Mum tells me that the tree is characteristic for flowering before putting out leaves.
The flowers come out of their buds already surprisingly complete. I love their furry protective shell.
The flower of the magnolia is a very very old design. Check out an interesting description of the magnolia flower.
These little flowers (about an inch across) may well be related to the Siberian Squill (except the squill is supposed to have 3-5 petals and this has 6).
It does seem a bit early for tulips, but then we already read about the effect of global warming on Ottawa’s tulip festival, didn’t we! Aside: while looking for magnolia references I found this site that you should not click on, unless you like groovy tunes. The photos are ok, but perhaps the obtrusive watermarking has taken its toll…)
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